The Antiquary: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Antiquary, credited to Sir Walter Scott, 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 Antiquary, by Sir Walter Scott. Read by skoval. Illegitimacy, false identity, and bankruptcy are the major elements of Sir Walter Scott's 1816 novel, The Antiquary. Set in the period of the French Revolution, the novel's hero, Lovel, struggles to gain repute and the hand of his beloved despite his uncertain parentage. During these pursuits, he befriends the title's antiquary, Johnathan Oldbuck, who finds Lovel a captive audience to his scholarly studies and a tragic likeness to his own disappointments in love. Readers will discover whether Lovel's acts of bravery and courage ultimately earn him the birth and fortunes of a nobleman. (Summary by S. Kovalchik)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Antiquary
• Author credits: Sir Walter Scott
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 47
• Listed recording duration: 19:41:48

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• French Revolution

Opening tracks: first 24 of 47

1. 01 - Volume I, Introduction — 26:55
2. 02 - Volume I, Editor's Introduction — 31:59
3. 03 - Volume I, Chapter First — 21:16
4. 04 - Volume I, Chapter Second — 20:44
5. 05 - Volume I, Chapter Third — 27:22
6. 06 - Volume I, Chapter Fourth — 26:16
7. 07 - Volume I, Chapter Fifth — 24:01
8. 08 - Volume I, Chapter Sixth — 35:31
9. 09 - Volume I, Chapter Seventh — 25:04
10. 10 - Volume I, Chapter Eighth — 18:37
11. 11 - Volume I, Chapter Ninth — 26:52
12. 12 - Volume I, Chapter Tenth — 22:40
13. 13 - Volume I, Chapter Eleventh — 26:32
14. 14 - Volume I, Chapter Twelfth — 14:51
15. 15 - Volume I, Chapter Thirteenth — 24:51
16. 16 - Volume I, Chapter Fourteenth — 20:49
17. 17 - Volume I, Chapter Fifteenth — 26:07
18. 18 - Volume I, Chapter Sixteenth — 24:25
19. 19 - Volume I, Chapter Seventeenth — 31:55
20. 20 - Volume I, Chapter Eighteenth — 32:32
21. 21 - Volume I, Chapter Nineteenth — 30:01
22. 22 - Volume I, Chapter Twentieth — 27:15
23. 23 - Volume I, Chapter Twenty-first — 48:29
24. 24 - Volume II, Chapter First — 28:16

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