Scenes of Clerical Life: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Scenes of Clerical Life, credited to George Eliot, 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 Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot. Read by Bruce Pirie. Scenes of Clerical Life, which appeared in book form in 1858 (after serial publication in the previous year), was the first published fiction by George Eliot, the pen name for Mary Anne Evans. It consists of three novellas based on the lives of country clergymen and their communities. These characters interest Eliot not for their theology — she had abandoned conventional Christian belief — but for their humanity. In these stories, we find the earliest signs of the narrative voice, the humanism, and the realism that would make George Eliot one of the greatest novelists of the 1800s. (Introduction by Bruce Pirie)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Scenes of Clerical Life
• Author credits: George Eliot
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 59
• Listed recording duration: 15:53:09

Catalogue topics

• audio
• novel
• eliot

Opening tracks: first 24 of 59

1. 01 - Amos Barton 01 — 29:51
2. 02 - Amos Barton 02 — 45:07
3. 03 - Amos Barton 03 — 20:36
4. 04 - Amos Barton 04 — 11:42
5. 05 - Amos Barton 05 — 21:37
6. 06 - Amos Barton 06 — 21:10
7. 07 - Amos Barton 07 — 19:58
8. 08 - Amos Barton 08 — 10:18
9. 09 - Amos Barton 09 — 11:11
10. 10 - Amos Barton 10 & Conclusion — 6:30
11. 11 - Mr. Gilfil's Love Story 01 — 35:10
12. 12 - Mr. Gilfil's Love Story 02 — 37:03
13. 13 - Mr. Gilfil's Love Story 03 — 15:37
14. 14 - Mr. Gilfil's Love Story 04 — 32:24
15. 15 - Mr. Gilfil's Love Story 05 — 31:06
16. 16 - Mr. Gilfil's Love Story 06 — 6:08
17. 17 - Mr. Gilfil's Love Story 07 — 12:31
18. 18 - Mr. Gilfil's Love Story 08 — 9:05
19. 19 - Mr. Gilfil's Love Story 09 — 6:08
20. 20 - Mr. Gilfil's Love Story 10 — 10:28
21. 21 - Mr. Gilfil's Love Story 11 — 10:37
22. 22 - Mr. Gilfil's Love Story 12 — 19:37
23. 23 - Mr. Gilfil's Love Story 13 — 14:11
24. 24 - Mr. Gilfil's Love Story 14 — 6:47

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