Paul and Virginia: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Paul and Virginia, credited to Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, 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 Paul and Virginia, by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint Pierre. Read by Ellis Christoff. Paul and Virginia was first published in 1787. The novel's title characters are very good friends since birth who fall in love, but sadly die when the ship Le Saint-Geran is wrecked. The story is set in the island of Mauritius under French rule, then named Île de France, which the author had visited. Written on the eve of the French Revolution, the novel is hailed as Bernardin's finest work. It records the fate of a child of nature corrupted by the false, artificial sentimentality that prevailed at the time among the upper classes of France.(Summary by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Paul and Virginia
• Author credits: Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 11
• Listed recording duration: 5:11:56

Catalogue topics

• Fiction
• Romance
• Tragedy

Track guide

1. Preface — 40:09
2. Part 01 — 28:58
3. Part 02 — 25:38
4. Part 03 — 34:30
5. Part 04 — 22:33
6. Part 05 — 29:19
7. Part 06 — 25:55
8. Part 07 — 26:39
9. Part 08 — 27:51
10. Part 09 — 25:13
11. Part 10 — 25:17

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