Partial Portraits: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Partial Portraits, credited to Henry James, 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 Partial Portraits by Henry James. Read in English by Rita Boutros. In this book, writer Henry James gives wonderful and probing insights into the lives and works of many famous and interesting writers, some known personally by him. We see into the creative workings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, Robert Louis Stevenson, Constance Fenimore Woolson, Alphonse Daudet, Guy De Maupassant, Ivan Turgenieff and George du Maurier. ( Rita Boutros)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Partial Portraits
• Author credits: Henry James
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 24
• Listed recording duration: 12:18:54

Catalogue topics

• stevenson
• emerson
• authors
• George Eliot
• Alphonse Daudet
• famous writers
• Anthony Trollope
• Constance Fenimore woolson

Track guide

1. 01 - Ch I, part 1 Emerson — 25:16
2. 02 - Ch I, part 2 Emerson — 26:05
3. 03 - Ch I, part 3 Emerson — 16:02
4. 04 - Ch II, part 1 Eliot — 25:36
5. 05 - Ch II, part 2 Eliot — 25:17
6. 06 - Ch III Deronda — 48:48
7. 07 - Ch IV, part 1 Trollope — 27:23
8. 08 - Ch IV, part 2 Trollope — 23:43
9. 09 - Ch IV, part 3 Trollope — 22:25
10. 10 - Ch V, sec I Robt Louis Stevenson — 23:33
11. 11 - Ch V, sec I cont'd Stevenson — 20:10
12. 12 - Ch V, sec II cont'd Stevenson — 30:20
13. 13 - Ch VI Miss Woolson — 31:24
14. 14 - Ch VII, sec I and II Daudet — 26:56
15. 15 - Ch VII, sec III, IV and V Daudet — 55:08
16. 16 - Ch VIII, Sec I deMaupassant — 41:55
17. 17 - Ch VIII, Sec II deMaupassant — 45:59
18. 18 - Ch IX, part 1 Turgenieff — 30:05
19. 19 - Ch IX, part 2 Turgenieff — 34:05
20. 20 - Ch X, part 1 DuMaurier — 25:39
21. 21 - Ch X, part 2 DuMaurier — 29:43
22. 22 - Ch X, part 3 DuMaurier — 34:58
23. 23 - Ch XI, part 1 Art of Fiction — 37:14
24. 24 - Ch XI, part 2 Art of Fiction — 31:10

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