The Battle of Life: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Battle of Life, credited to Charles Dickens, 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 Battle of Life, by Charles Dickens and read by Mark F. Smith. While "The Battle of Life" is one of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books - his annual release of a story just before Christmas - this one breaks the tradition by not being concerned with Christmas. Rather, its subtitle, "A Love Story", reveals more of the plot. The major events of this book take place on land that once was a battleground. That is just a backdrop for Dickens' idea of the real battle of life - finding and winning the right partner, so that life will go on to the next generation. The family that lives there is rather confused in its affections and intentions regarding who should end up with whom. We are thrust into the fight to make things work out, and, happily for a Christmas book, Dickens leads us on to a happy ending.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Battle of Life
• Author credits: Charles Dickens
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 7
• Listed recording duration: 3:28:45

Catalogue topics

• Romance
• Fiction

Track guide

1. 1a - Part the First — 28:40
2. 1b - Chapter 1, Part 2 — 31:41
3. 2a - Part the Second — 25:06
4. 2b - Chapter 2, Part 2 — 24:01
5. 2c - Chapter 2, Part 3 — 32:33
6. 3a - Part the Third — 35:31
7. 3b - Chapter 3, Part 2 — 31:16

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