Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress, credited to Daniel Defoe, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress, by Daniel Defoe. Read by Edmund Bloxam. The full title of the novel is Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress Or, a History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Afterwards Called the Countess de Wintselsheim. The novel concerns the story of an unnamed "fallen woman", the second time Defoe created such a character (the first was a similar female character in Moll Flanders). In Roxana, a woman who takes on various pseudonyms, including "Roxana," describes her fall from wealth thanks to abandonment by a "fool" of a husband and movement into prostitution upon his abandonment. Roxana moves up and down through the social spectrum several times. (Summary by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress
• Author credits: Daniel Defoe
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 36
• Listed recording duration: 16:24:50

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• women
• society
• prostitution
• survival

Opening tracks: first 24 of 36

1. Section 01 — 5:29
2. Section 02 — 19:36
3. Section 03 — 19:01
4. Section 04 — 25:06
5. Section 05 — 31:35
6. Section 06 — 21:13
7. Section 07 — 18:31
8. Section 08 — 23:38
9. Section 09 — 25:48
10. Section 10 — 18:22
11. Section 11 — 36:48
12. Section 12 — 15:44
13. Section 13 — 24:54
14. Section 14 — 26:21
15. Section 15 — 28:17
16. Section 16 — 44:10
17. Section 17 — 30:42
18. Section 18 — 14:34
19. Section 19 — 30:56
20. Section 20 — 27:39
21. Section 21 — 24:45
22. Section 22 — 31:08
23. Section 23 — 24:38
24. Section 24 — 26:04

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