The Adventures of Roderick Random: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Adventures of Roderick Random, credited to Tobias Smollett, 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 Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett. Read in English by Arthur Krolman I am Roderick Random. This is the contemporary story of my struggle against the adversity of orphan-hood, poverty, press gangs, bloody duels, rival fortune hunters, and the challenge to be well-dressed through it all. In the course of recounting my adventures to you, dear reader, I will give you a front row seat to the characters of English eighteenth century life including highway robbers, womanizing monks, debt-laden gallants, lecherous corrupt officials, effeminate sea captains, bloodthirsty surgeons, and my dear friend Miss Williams, a reformed prostitute. Educated in the classics, armed with a confident conscientious attitude and my long-suffering sidekick, Strap, I fight the good fight staying, on the whole, morally upstanding throughout. Today, if there be such a thing as true happiness on earth, I enjoy it -- and without having spent a fortune on college either. After hearing me out, I expect you'll be as wonderfully transported as one dear wealthy gentleman who listened to my whole story and then blessed God for the adversity I had undergone, which, he said, enlarged the understanding, improved the heart, steeled the constitution, and qualified a young man for all the duties and enjoyments of life much better than any education which affluence could bestow. Summary by Arthur Krolman.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Adventures of Roderick Random
• Author credits: Tobias Smollett
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 70
• Listed recording duration: 19:09:14

Catalogue topics

• humor
• poverty
• manners
• fashion
• orphan
• seafaring
• gambling
• corruption

Opening tracks: first 24 of 70

1. 00 - Author's Preface and Apologue — 13:02
2. 01 - Chapter I — 10:47
3. 02 - Chapter II — 10:39
4. 03 - Chapter III — 10:51
5. 04 - Chapter IV — 8:26
6. 05 - Chapter V — 12:23
7. 06 - Chapter VI — 15:55
8. 07 - Chapter VII — 15:07
9. 08 - Chapter VIII — 16:36
10. 09 - Chapter IX — 12:26
11. 10 - Chapter X — 14:20
12. 11 - Chapter XI — 17:55
13. 12 - Chapter XII — 19:03
14. 13 - Chapter XIII — 17:04
15. 14 - Chapter XIV — 15:51
16. 15 - Chapter XV — 15:06
17. 16 - Chapter XVI — 19:42
18. 17 - Chapter XVII — 19:16
19. 18 - Chapter XVIII — 14:48
20. 19 - Chapter XIX — 8:52
21. 20 - Chapter XX — 12:10
22. 21 - Chapter XXI — 21:34
23. 22 - Chapter XXII — 27:21
24. 23 - Chapter XXIII — 29:18

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