Robert Elsmere: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Robert Elsmere, credited to Mary Augusta Ward, 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 Robert Elsmere by Mary Augusta Ward. Read in English by Simon Evers Essentially the book covers the life of Robert Elsmere, a boyishly intellectual clergyman. The first part covers his meeting with and eventual marriage to Catherine Leyburn. After a period as a country vicar, Robert’s meetings with the local squire, an intellectual atheist, lead to his having a crisis of faith. The pair move to London where Robert works with the poor and uneducated. The lives of the people closely associated with the pair are also covered. The book is set against the late Victorian world and its reactions to Darwinism, Unitarianism and the rise of secularism and modernism. At the time, it was a runaway best seller and its attack on orthodox Christianity was fiercely debated by all, including Gladstone. - Summary by Simon Evers

Recording facts

• Recording title: Robert Elsmere
• Author credits: Mary Augusta Ward
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 51
• Listed recording duration: 28:38:10

Opening tracks: first 24 of 51

1. 01 - Book 1, Chapter 1 — 35:14
2. 02 - Book 1, Chapter 2 — 38:58
3. 03 - Book 1, Chapter 3 — 40:02
4. 04 - Book 1, Chapter 4 — 26:08
5. 05 - Book 1, Chapter 5 — 57:18
6. 06 - Book 1, Chapter 6 — 48:37
7. 07 - Book 1, Chapter 7 — 46:28
8. 08 - Book 1, Chapter 8 — 44:02
9. 09 - Book 1, Chapter 9 — 33:40
10. 10 - Book 1, Chapter 10 — 49:02
11. 11 - Book 2, Chapter 11 — 34:37
12. 12 - Book 2, Chapter 12 — 42:14
13. 13 - Book 2, Chapter 13 — 33:26
14. 14 - Book 2, Chapter 14 — 30:16
15. 15 - Book 2, Chapter 15 — 33:25
16. 16 - Book 2, Chapter 16 — 29:33
17. 17 - Book 2, Chapter 17 — 39:28
18. 18 - Book 2, Chapter 18 — 40:20
19. 19 - Book 3, Chapter 19 — 44:21
20. 20 - Book 3, Chapter 20 — 40:11
21. 21 - Book 3, Chapter 21 — 44:26
22. 22 - Book 3, Chapter 22 — 27:44
23. 23 - Book 3, Chapter 23 — 19:00
24. 24 - Book 3, Chapter 24 — 27:34

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