Steppenwolf: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Steppenwolf, credited to Hermann Hesse, 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 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse. (Translated by Basil Creighton.) Read in English by Ben Tucker. This controversial literary classic paints the portrait of a man who perceives himself to live in two worlds, that of the idealist, cowed and comfortable living amongst the bourgeoisie, and that of the steppenwolf, a wild and untrammelled soul at odds with the world around it which leads him to severe disfunction and thoughts of suicide. Through a surreal journey into dance halls, bed chambers and endless corridors of alternate realities, he comes to understand the world better and his place in it. (Summary by Ben Tucker)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Steppenwolf
• Author credits: Hermann Hesse
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 8
• Listed recording duration: 7:04:06

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 39:51
2. 01 - Harry Haller's Records Part 1 — 32:23
3. 02 - Treatise on the Steppenwolf — 52:52
4. 03 - Harry Haller's Records Part 2 — 1:04:30
5. 04 - Harry Haller's Records Part 3 — 55:51
6. 05 - Harry Haller's Records Part 4 — 1:00:27
7. 06 - Harry Haller's Records Part 5 — 1:01:50
8. 07 - Harry Haller's Records Part 6 — 56:22

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