Tales of Unrest: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Tales of Unrest, credited to Joseph Conrad, 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 Unrest, by Joseph Conrad. Tales of Unrest (1898) is the first collection of short stories by Joseph Conrad published in his lifetime. Joseph Conrad (1857– 1924), a Polish-born English novelist, was a master in the formats of long short story and novella, a form of story longer than conventional short story but shorter than a novel. Some of Conrad's most acclaimed works have been written in these formats, most notably Heart of Darkness (1899). Tales of Unrest contains five stories; Karain: A Memory (written 1897; read by Jhiu), The Idiots (1896; read by Ann Boulais), An Outpost of Progress (1896; read by Kristine Bekere), The Return (1897; read by Raerity) and The Lagoon (1896; read by David Lazarus). Author's note read by Sibella Denton. (Summary by Illiterati)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Tales of Unrest
• Author credits: Joseph Conrad
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 21
• Listed recording duration: 7:05:28

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• novella
• short story
• Conrad

Track guide

1. 00 - Author's Note — 7:37
2. 01 - Karain: A Memory, chapter 1 — 16:29
3. 02 - Karain: A Memory, chapter 2 — 18:05
4. 03 - Karain: A Memory, chapter 3 — 21:42
5. 04 - Karain: A Memory, chapter 4 — 27:25
6. 05 - Karain: A Memory, chapter 5 — 16:26
7. 06 - Karain: A Memory, chapter 6 — 19:14
8. 07 - The Idiots, part 1 — 16:53
9. 08 - The Idiots, part 2 — 16:57
10. 09 - The Idiots, part 3 — 17:51
11. 10 - An Outpost of Progress, chapter 1 — 29:31
12. 11 - An Outpost of Progress, chapter 2 — 36:50
13. 12 - The Return, part 1 — 20:01
14. 13 - The Return, part 2 — 21:01
15. 14 - The Return, part 3 — 20:23
16. 15 - The Return, part 4 — 22:17
17. 16 - The Return, part 5 — 20:47
18. 17 - The Return, part 6 — 17:43
19. 18 - The Return, part 7 — 22:29
20. 19 - The Lagoon, part 1 — 17:00
21. 20 - The Lagoon, part 2 — 18:58

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