Sir Dominick Ferrand: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Sir Dominick Ferrand, 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 Sir Dominick Ferrand, by Henry James . Read by Nicholas Clifford. "Levity" is not a word often applied to Henry James, but this story has about it an attractively lighthearted quality. It tells of Peter Baron, a poor, young struggling writer of adequate, if not transcendent, talent, who lives in a dreary London boarding house inhabited also by a mysteriously clairvoyant and beautiful young widow, with her small boy. When Baron buys himself a second-hand writing desk to stimulate the creative juices, he finds carefully hidden within it a cache of letters that appear to compromise a recently deceased statesman. The discovery and his struggle to handle the questions they pose ultimately change his life. Along the way he also discovers, as a fringe benefit, a talent for what Americans (though probably not Jamesians) call Tin Pan Alley. (Summary by Nicholas Clifford)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Sir Dominick Ferrand
• Author credits: Henry James
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 7
• Listed recording duration: 2:20:41

Catalogue topics

• Henry James
• Dominick Ferrand

Track guide

1. 1 - Chapter I — 18:15
2. 2 - Chapter II — 31:04
3. 3 - Chapter III — 16:42
4. 4 - Chapter IV — 22:38
5. 5 - Chapter V — 16:40
6. 6 - Chapter VI — 8:37
7. 7 - Chapter VII — 26:52

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