Queen Lucia: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Queen Lucia, credited to Edward Frederic Benson, 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 Queen Lucia by E.F. Benson. Read by Martin Clifton. E. F. Benson (1867-1940) was born at Wellington College in Berkshire, where his father, who later went on to become the Archbishop of Canterbury, was the first Headmaster. He wrote 105 books in all. Queen Lucia (first published in 1920) was the first of Benson’s ‘Mapp and Lucia’ novels of which there were six. This first book is a comedy of manners based in the provincial village of Riseholme, where Emmeline Lucas (the Queen Lucia of the title) presides over the social and artistic universe of the gullible residents. Her aide-de-camp in these matters is the somewhat effete Georgie Pillson and the chief competitor for her ‘crown’ is Daisy Quantock. The scandal of the Guru, the psychical goings on with Princess Popoffski and the arrival into the sleepy village of a famous Prima Donna all conspire to threaten her supremacy… (summary by Martin Clifton)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Queen Lucia
• Author credits: Edward Frederic Benson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 8:45:06

Catalogue topics

• E.F. Benson
• Emmeline Lucas
• Riseholme

Track guide

1. Chapter 01 — 35:40
2. Chapter 02 — 31:57
3. Chapter 03 — 25:57
4. Chapter 04 — 33:55
5. Chapter 05 — 27:02
6. Chapter 06 — 42:13
7. Chapter 07 — 40:28
8. Chapter 08 — 40:00
9. Chapter 09 — 23:43
10. Chapter 10 — 29:44
11. Chapter 11 — 37:24
12. Chapter 12 — 44:13
13. Chapter 13 — 37:39
14. Chapter 14 — 32:56
15. Chapter 15 — 31:26
16. Chapter 16 — 10:56

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