Tasker Jevons: The Real Story: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Tasker Jevons: The Real Story, credited to May Sinclair, 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 Tasker Jevons: The Real Story by May Sinclair. Read in English by Expatriate In this May Sinclair wartime masterpiece, dashing newsman Walter Furnival is an absurdly good catch: handsome, successful, athletic, intelligent, an upstanding epitome of manhood and rectitude. Tasker Jevons is a puny, preposterous, impossible-looking, bombastic sports writer, without one single redeeming social grace. Imagine the jealous mortification of Furny when his enchanting young typist and love interest Viola Thesiger chooses the clownish Jevons as a lover, seeing in him a remarkable inner beauty not evident to anyone but her and (as he grudgingly but magnanimously admits) the long-suffering and devoted Furnival. But despite the title, the central character of this extraordinary novel is not the redoubtable Jevons but the rebellious feminist Viola, determined against all odds not only to revolt against every enslaving conformity of her upbringing, but also to burn all her boats behind her, ruthlessly leaving herself no possibility of a return to the soporific decorum of her cloistered family and past. This extraordinary menage, however, is broken apart by the irruption of the Great War into their lives. - Summary by Expatriate

Recording facts

• Recording title: Tasker Jevons: The Real Story
• Author credits: May Sinclair
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 28
• Listed recording duration: 9:14:11

Catalogue topics

• World War I
• feminism
• women's literature
• may sinclair

Opening tracks: first 24 of 28

1. 01 - My Book, Ch. 1a — 17:30
2. 02 - My Book, Ch. 1b — 19:13
3. 03 - My Book, Ch. 1c — 18:18
4. 04 - My Book, Ch. 2a — 16:42
5. 05 - My Book, Ch. 2b — 18:27
6. 06 - My Book, Ch. 3a — 22:38
7. 07 - My Book, Ch. 3b — 20:33
8. 08 - My Book, Ch. 4a — 20:35
9. 09 - My Book, Ch. 4b — 22:28
10. 10 - My Book, Ch. 5 — 14:38
11. 11 - Her Book, Ch. 6a — 17:36
12. 12 - Her Book, Ch. 6b — 18:10
13. 13 - Her Book, Ch. 7 — 27:41
14. 14 - Her Book, Ch. 8a — 22:45
15. 15 - Her Book, Ch. 8b — 23:47
16. 16 - Her Book, Ch. 9a — 15:46
17. 17 - Her Book, Ch. 9b — 16:18
18. 18 - Her Book, Ch. 10 — 16:29
19. 19 - Her Book, Ch. 11a — 23:11
20. 20 - Her Book, Ch. 11b — 20:44
21. 21 - Her Book, Ch. 11c — 18:34
22. 22 - His Book, Ch. 12a — 18:42
23. 23 - His Book, Ch. 12b — 16:27
24. 24 - His Book, Ch. 13a — 23:27

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