The Awkward Age: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Awkward Age, credited to Henry James, 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 Awkward Age by Henry James. Read in English by Anna Simon Nanda Brookenham is coming of age, and thus 'coming out' in London society - which leads to complications in her family's social set in London's fin de siècle life. James presents the novel almost entirely in dialogue, an experiment that adds to the immediacy of the scenes but also creates serious ambiguities about characters and their motives. Summary by Anna Simon, adapted from Wikipedia.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Awkward Age
• Author credits: Henry James
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 39
• Listed recording duration: 15:16:09

Catalogue topics

• London
• society
• decadence
• corruption
• fin de siecle

Opening tracks: first 24 of 39

1. 00 - Author's Preface — 48:08
2. 01 - Book First - Lady Julia - Chapter I — 23:28
3. 02 - Book First - Lady Julia - Chapter II — 17:28
4. 03 - Book First - Lady Julia - Chapter III — 14:37
5. 04 - Book Second - Little Aggie - Chapter I — 14:51
6. 05 - Book Second - Little Aggie - Chapter II — 32:13
7. 06 - Book Second - Little Aggie - Chapter III — 17:41
8. 07 - Book Second - Little Aggie - Chapter IV — 26:55
9. 08 - Book Second - Little Aggie - Chapter V — 22:08
10. 09 - Book Second - Little Aggie - Chapter VI — 17:21
11. 10 - Book Third - Mr Longdon - Chapter I — 18:03
12. 11 - Book Third - Mr Longdon - Chapter II — 22:22
13. 12 - Book Third - Mr Longdon - Chapter III — 19:26
14. 13 - Book Fourth - Mr Cashmore - Chapter I — 25:36
15. 14 - Book Fourth - Mr Cashmore - Chapter II — 19:07
16. 15 - Book Fourth - Mr Cashmore - Chapter III — 25:14
17. 16 - Book Fifth - The Duchess - Chapter I — 25:10
18. 17 - Book Fifth - The Duchess - Chapter II — 26:55
19. 18 - Book Fifth - The Duchess - Chapter III — 19:49
20. 19 - Book Fifth - The Duchess - Chapter IV — 24:58
21. 20 - Book Fifth - The Duchess - Chapter V — 31:20
22. 21 - Book Sixth - Mrs Brook - Chapter I — 31:44
23. 22 - Book Sixth - Mrs Brook - Chapter II — 31:13
24. 23 - Book Sixth - Mrs Brook - Chapter III — 27:33

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