Tension: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Tension, credited to E. M. Delafield, 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 Tension by E. M. Delafield. Read in English by Helen Taylor When the role of ‘Lady Superintendent’ becomes available at the Commercial and Technical College for South West England, the calm and capable Pauline Marchrose is the successful applicant. This is good news for Sir Julian, the college director, who greatly admires her diligence and ability. Mark Easter, Sir Julian’s agent, feels admiration for her too, which rapidly becomes romantic attraction. But Mark already has a wife, albeit in name only. And Sir Julian’s wife, Lady Edna Rossiter, discovers that Pauline Marchrose is the same woman who jilted her cousin Clarence after he was paralysed in an accident. A manipulative,self-righteous and interfering woman, she has little interest in the truth of the story, and she uses her position and influence to start a whispering campaign against Pauline. In a small community this soon creates an atmosphere of suspicion and tension which threatens her whole future. - Summary by Helen Taylor

Recording facts

• Recording title: Tension
• Author credits: E. M. Delafield
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 8:09:51

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter I — 25:25
2. 02 - Chapter II — 24:25
3. 03 - Chapter III — 26:02
4. 04 - Chapter IV — 26:30
5. 05 - Chapter V — 26:53
6. 06 - Chapter VI — 25:36
7. 07 - Chapter VII — 21:25
8. 08 - Chapter VIII — 21:06
9. 09 - Chapter IX — 19:01
10. 10 - Chapter X — 20:27
11. 11 - Chapter XI — 27:48
12. 12 - Chapter XII — 27:38
13. 13 - Chapter XIII — 25:23
14. 14 - Chapter XIV — 30:19
15. 15 - Chapter XV — 28:00
16. 16 - Chapter XVI — 27:43
17. 17 - Chapter XVII — 28:07
18. 18 - Chapter XVIII — 26:07
19. 19 - Chapter XIX — 26:02
20. 20 - Chapter XX — 5:54

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