Our Mutual Friend: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Our Mutual Friend, credited to Charles Dickens, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Our Mutual Friend, by Charles Dickens. Read by Don W. Jenkins. Our Mutual Friend (written in the years 1864–65) is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining psychological insight with social analysis. It centres on, in the words of critic J. Hillis Miller, "money, money, money, and what money can make of life" but is also about human values. In the opening chapters a body is found in the Thames and identified as John Harmon, a young man recently returned to London to receive his inheritance. Were he alive, his father's will would require him to marry Bella Wilfer, a beautiful, mercenary girl whom he had never met. Instead, the money passes to the working-class Boffins, and the effects spread into various corners of London society. (Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Our Mutual Friend
• Author credits: Charles Dickens
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 68
• Listed recording duration: 32:40:26

Catalogue topics

• Dickens
• fiction
• Boffin
• Harmon

Opening tracks: first 24 of 68

1. 01 - Book 1 Chap. 01 ON THE LOOK OUT — 11:14
2. 02 - Book 1 Chap. 02 THE MAN FROM SOMEWHERE — 29:08
3. 03 - Book 1 Chap. 03 ANOTHER MAN — 32:40
4. 04 - Book 1 Chap. 04 THE R. WILFER FAMILY — 27:58
5. 05 - Book 1 Chap. 05 BOFFIN'S BOWER — 39:55
6. 06 - Book 1 Chap. 06 CUT ADRIFT — 35:57
7. 07 - Book 1 Chap. 07 MR WEGG LOOKS AFTER HIMSELF — 22:24
8. 08 - Book 1 Chap. 08 MR BOFFIN IN CONSULTATION — 32:26
9. 09 - Book 1 Chap. 09 MR AND MRS BOFFIN IN CONSULTATION — 36:49
10. 10 - Book 1 Chap. 10 A MARRIAGE CONTRACT — 34:46
11. 11 - Book 1 Chap. 11 PODSNAPPERY — 40:48
12. 12 - Book 1 Chap. 12 THE SWEAT OF AN HONEST MAN'S BROW — 37:00
13. 13 - Book 1 Chap. 13 TRACKING THE BIRD OF PREY — 24:37
14. 14 - Book 1 Chap. 14 THE BIRD OF PREY BROUGHT DOWN — 19:03
15. 15 - Book 1 Chap. 15 TWO NEW SERVANTS — 34:19
16. 16 - Book 1 Chap. 16 MINDERS AND RE-MINDERS — 38:29
17. 17 - Book 1 Chap. 17 A DISMAL SWAMP — 13:53
18. 18 - Book 2 Chap. 01 OF AN EDUCATIONAL CHARACTER — 44:29
19. 19 - Book 2 Chap. 02 STILL EDUCATIONAL — 28:47
20. 20 - Book 2 Chap. 03 A PIECE OF WORK — 28:19
21. 21 - Book 2 - Chap. 04 CUPID PROMPTED — 33:05
22. 22 - Book 2 Chap. 05 MERCURY PROMPTING — 35:39
23. 23 - Book 2 Chap. 06 A RIDDLE WITHOUT AN ANSWER — 32:23
24. 24 - Book 2 Chap. 07 IN WHICH A FRIENDLY MOVE IS ORIGINATED — 27:57

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