Roderick Hudson: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Roderick Hudson, 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 Roderick Hudson, by Henry James.Read by Nicholas Clifford Published as a serial in 1875, Roderick Hudson is James's first important novel. The theme of Americans in Europe, so important in much of James's work, is already central to the story. Hudson is a young law student in Northampton, Massachusetts, who shows such surprising ability as a sculptor that the rich Rowland Mallett, visiting a cousin in Northampton, decides to stake him to several years of study in Rome, then a center of expatriate American society. The story has to do not only with Roderick's growth as an artist and the problems it brings, but also as a man susceptible to his new environment, and indeed his occasional rivalries with his American friend and patron. Interestingly enough, at least two of the book's characters made sufficient impression on James that he brought them back in other books: the French-Italian-Yankee sculptor, Gloriani, who appears later in The American, and Christina Light, the American who becomes the subject of Princess Casamassima, one of James's later (and much longer) novels. (Introduction by Nicholas Clifford)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Roderick Hudson
• Author credits: Henry James
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 13:21:27

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• American

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 01 - Chapter I, Part A — 32:22
2. 02 - Chapter I, Part B — 30:00
3. 03 - Chapter II, Part A — 33:14
4. 04 - Chapter II, Part B — 34:50
5. 05 - Chapter III, Part A — 35:30
6. 06 - Chapter III, Part B — 35:15
7. 07 - Chapter IV, Part A — 36:48
8. 08 - Chapter IV, Part B — 27:09
9. 09 - Chapter V, Part A — 35:00
10. 10 - Chapter V, Part B — 32:01
11. 11 - Chapter VI, Part A — 31:16
12. 12 - Chapter VI, Part B — 28:12
13. 13 - Chapter VII, Part A — 32:38
14. 14 - Chapter VII, Part B — 21:27
15. 15 - Chapter VIII — 46:49
16. 16 - Chapter IX, Part A — 24:22
17. 17 - Chapter IX, Part B — 25:00
18. 18 - Chapter X, Part A — 27:30
19. 19 - Chapte X, Part B — 29:18
20. 20 - Chapter X, Part C — 29:36
21. 21 - Chapter XI, Part A — 37:49
22. 22 - Chapter XI, Part B — 35:13
23. 23 - Chapter XII, Part A — 25:13
24. 24 - Chapter XII, Part B — 27:39

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