The Able McLaughlins: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Able McLaughlins, credited to Margaret Wilson, 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 The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson. Read by Warren Kati The Able McLaughlins won the Pulitzer Prize for a novel in 1924 in Margaret Wilson's debut work. Aptly described as "Little House on the Prairie - but for adults" the novel follows a group of Scottish families who pioneer the Iowa prairie in the 1860’s. The main storyline concerns Wully, the eldest McLaughlin son, who returns home from the Civil War to find that his sweetheart, Chirstie, has experienced an unspeakable tragedy that will profoundly affect the couple's lives. Their story is one of shame and honor, secrets and guilt, fear and loathing, revenge and forgiveness. But perhaps the stars of the novel are the strong older women such as Wully’s mother, Isobel, whose love and matriarchal strength keeps the family together as well as Chirstie’s stepmother, Barbara, who finds ways to make her good-for-nothing husband keep his promises. Interlaced with the plots are richly detailed descriptions of frontier prairie life, the love that families share, and the relationships within the Scottish immigrant community. (Warren Kati)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Able McLaughlins
• Author credits: Margaret Wilson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 8:07:03

Catalogue topics

• forgiveness
• Scottish
• Pulitzer prize
• revenge
• pioneer
• prairie life
• matriarch

Track guide

1. 01 - — 33:13
2. 02 - — 30:29
3. 03 - — 30:56
4. 04 - — 31:49
5. 05 - — 34:31
6. 06 - — 23:16
7. 07 - — 28:55
8. 08 - — 34:31
9. 09 - — 26:54
10. 10 - — 27:37
11. 11 - — 24:09
12. 12 - — 30:50
13. 13 - — 30:12
14. 14 - — 32:56
15. 15 - — 21:05
16. 16 - — 17:55
17. 17 - — 27:45

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