Ships That Pass in the Night: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Ships That Pass in the Night, credited to Beatrice Harraden, 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 Ships That Pass in the Night by Beatrice Harraden. Read by LibriVox Volunteers This short novel by Beatrice Harraden, who was known for her work as a suffragist, was a bestseller in its time. In it, teacher and activist Bernardine Holme takes up residence at a tuberculosis sanatorium after falling ill. There she meets Robert Allitsen, known to sanatorium residents as “the Disagreeable Man.” As their friendship grows, the mutual influence of each character’s outlook on life and illness comes to have a lasting effect on the two. - Summary by Scarbo

Recording facts

• Recording title: Ships That Pass in the Night
• Author credits: Beatrice Harraden
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 4:14:40

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• tuberculosis

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 01 - Part 1. Chapter 1: A New-comer — 3:34
2. 02 - Part 1. Chapter 2: Contains a Few Details — 5:31
3. 03 - Part 1. Chapter 3: Mrs. Reffold Learns a Lesson — 11:38
4. 04 - Part 1. Chapter 4: Concerning Wärli and Marie — 5:48
5. 05 - Part 1. Chapter 5: The Disagreeable Man — 12:02
6. 06 - Part 1. Chapter 6: The Traveller and the Temple of Knowledge — 7:17
7. 07 - Part 1. Chapter 7: Bernardine — 13:54
8. 08 - Part 1. Chapter 8: The Story Moves On at Last — 8:04
9. 09 - Part 1. Chapter 9: Bernardine Preaches — 12:15
10. 10 - Part 1. Chapter 10: The Disagreeable Man is Seen in a New Light — 23:45
11. 11 - Part 1. Chapter 11: "If One Has Made the One Great Sacrifice" — 12:30
12. 12 - Part 1. Chapter 12: The Disagreeable Man Makes a Loan — 18:48
13. 13 - Part 1. Chapter 13: A Domestic Scene — 14:26
14. 14 - Part 1. Chapter 14: Concerning the Caretakers — 8:46
15. 15 - Part 1. Chapter 15: Which Contains Nothing — 13:00
16. 16 - Part 1. Chapter 16: When the Soul Knows Its Own Remorse — 3:13
17. 17 - Part 1. Chapter 17: A Return to Old Pastures — 23:46
18. 18 - Part 1. Chapter 18: A Betrothal — 6:09
19. 19 - Part 1. Chapter 19: "Ships That Speak Each Other in Passing" — 8:08
20. 20 - Part 1. Chapter 20: A Love-Letter — 10:54
21. 21 - Part 2. Chapter 1: The Dusting of the Books — 12:33
22. 22 - Part 2. Chapter 2: Bernardine Begins Her Book — 2:09
23. 23 - Part 2. Chapter 3: Failure and Success: A Prologue — 3:57
24. 24 - Part 2. Chapter 4: The Disagreeable Man Gives Up His Freedom — 9:53

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