Tess of the d'Urbervilles: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Tess of the d'Urbervilles, credited to Thomas Hardy, 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 Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. Read by Adrian Praetzellis. One of the greatest English tragic novels, TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES (1891) is the story of a “pure woman” who is victimized both by conventional morality and its antithesis. Born near Dorchester, Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) set most of his stories in the region between Berkshire and Dorset in the fictional county of Wessex. He was a controversial writer whose work often showed the result of flouting the rigid Victorian moral code -- his novel JUDE THE OBSCURE was (allegedly) burned by the Bishop of Wakefield for its shocking content. Hardy was an unflinching observer and in TESS has left us some unforgettable vignettes of rural life in late 19th-century England: the slow death of a flock of wounded pheasants, the monotony of field labour under an iron gray sky, and the itinerant farm worker’s seasonal round. (Summary by Adrian Praetzellis)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Tess of the d'Urbervilles
• Author credits: Thomas Hardy
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 56
• Listed recording duration: 17:51:53

Opening tracks: first 24 of 56

1. Chapter 01 — 13:40
2. Chapter 02 — 20:11
3. Chapter 03 — 17:28
4. Chapter 04 — 27:58
5. Chapter 05 — 24:15
6. Chapter 06 — 12:14
7. Chapter 07 — 11:55
8. Chapter 08 — 11:51
9. Chapter 09 — 14:44
10. Chapter 10 — 23:11
11. Chapter 11 — 15:16
12. Chapter 12 — 22:07
13. Chapter 13 — 9:27
14. Chapter 14 — 33:57
15. Chapter 15 — 8:13
16. Chapter 16 — 14:58
17. Chapter 17 — 20:06
18. Chapter 18 — 19:50
19. Chapter 19 — 20:35
20. Chapter 20 — 11:12
21. Chapter 21 — 16:03
22. Chapter 22 — 8:03
23. Chapter 23 — 18:20
24. Chapter 24 — 10:55

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