Souls for Sale: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Souls for Sale, credited to Rupert Hughes, 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 Souls for Sale by Rupert Hughes. Read in English by Deanna Bovee Perhaps the most commercially successful Hollywood novel of the 1920s, Rupert Hughes' Souls for Sale is a direct response to contemporaneous charges of the film industry's moral laxities and predilections toward vice. Remember "Mem" Steddon, the pious and steadfast daughter of a religious firebrand who preaches about the sins of Hollywood, is forced to migrate to the west coast after discovering that she's become pregnant out of wedlock. On her journey, Mem runs into the inhabitants of a movie colony and soon befriends many of these delightful (if somewhat peculiar) "film folk." She finds temporary employment as a film extra and soon develops aspirations to become a star herself. But Mem soon discovers that Hollywood is a far different place than she had originally imagined and that the road to film stardom is not straightforward or easy to navigate. This novel was the basis for the popular 1923 film adaptation, which starred an up-and-coming Eleanor Boardman and was directed by Rupert Hughes himself. (Summary by ChuckW )

Recording facts

• Recording title: Souls for Sale
• Author credits: Rupert Hughes
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 61
• Listed recording duration: 14:13:46

Catalogue topics

• movies
• Hollywood

Opening tracks: first 24 of 61

1. 01 - Chapter I — 18:39
2. 02 - Chapter II — 7:51
3. 03 - Chapter III — 19:31
4. 04 - Chapter IV — 12:39
5. 05 - Chapter V — 17:16
6. 06 - Chapter VI — 23:08
7. 07 - Chapter VII — 21:33
8. 08 - Chapter VIII — 21:18
9. 09 - Chapter IX — 6:02
10. 10 - Chapter X — 11:44
11. 11 - Chapter XI — 13:05
12. 12 - Chapter XII — 5:44
13. 13 - Chapter XIII — 3:37
14. 14 - Chapter XIV — 18:08
15. 15 - Chapter XV — 14:42
16. 16 - Chapter XVI — 12:31
17. 17 - Chapter XVII — 28:54
18. 18 - Chapter XVIII — 7:22
19. 19 - Chapter XIX — 26:11
20. 20 - Chapter XX — 7:27
21. 21 - Chapter XXI — 11:15
22. 22 - Chapter XXII — 19:54
23. 23 - Chapter XXIII — 7:56
24. 24 - Chapter XXIV — 13:35

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