Tales of Mean Streets: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Tales of Mean Streets, credited to Arthur Morrison, 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 Tales of Mean Streets by Arthur Morrison. Read in English by Steve C; Lynne T; Lynette Caulkins; Richard Auty ; Steven Fellows; Tommy Hersant; Kathryn Phipps; KevinS; KHand This is the first book of a trilogy (A Child of the Jago, To London Town) set in the harsh world of London's East End. Violence and poverty are everywhere, but the universal human emotions prevail despite the rawness of life. We come to love the characters and suffer with them in their misery, yet share in their joys and minor triumphs. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Tales of Mean Streets
• Author credits: Arthur Morrison
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 4:49:09

Catalogue topics

• London
• poverty
• violence

Track guide

1. 01 - Introduction to the American Edition — 9:37
2. 02 - Introduction -- A Street — 22:47
3. 03 - Lizerunt -- Lizer's Wooing — 12:40
4. 04 - Lizer's First — 9:19
5. 05 - A Change of Circumstances — 10:34
6. 06 - Without Visible Means — 20:01
7. 07 - To Bow Bridge — 8:53
8. 08 - That Brute Simmons — 14:58
9. 09 - Behind the Shade — 11:48
10. 10 - Three Rounds — 29:19
11. 11 - In Business — 17:27
12. 12 - The Red Cow Group — 25:43
13. 13 - On the Stairs — 11:46
14. 14 - Squire Napper — 31:37
15. 15 - 'A Poor Stick' — 11:01
16. 16 - A Conversion — 16:34
17. 17 - 'All That Messuage' — 25:05

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