The Beetle: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Beetle, credited to Richard Marsh, 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 Beetle, by Richard Marsh. Read by icyjumbo (1964-2010), Alan Winterrowd, Ruth Golding and Anthony Wilson. A story about a mysterious oriental figure who pursues a British politician to London, where he wreaks havoc with his powers of hypnosis and shape-shifting, Marsh's novel is of a piece with other sensational turn-of-the-century fictions such as Stoker's Dracula, George du Maurier's Trilby, and Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu novels. Like Dracula and many of the sensation novels pioneered by Wilkie Collins and others in the 1860s, The Beetle is narrated from the perspectives of multiple characters, a technique used in many late nineteenth-century novels (those of Wilkie Collins and Stoker, for example) to create suspense. (Summary by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Beetle
• Author credits: Richard Marsh
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 48
• Listed recording duration: 11:55:54

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• novel
• sensation
• hypnosis

Opening tracks: first 24 of 48

1. 01 - Outside — 14:20
2. 02 - Inside — 17:25
3. 03 - The Man in the Bed — 12:41
4. 04 - A Lonely Vigil — 14:26
5. 05 - An Instruction to Commit Burglary — 22:37
6. 06 - A Singular Felony — 19:28
7. 07 - The Great Paul Lessingham — 19:22
8. 08 - The Man in the Street — 5:12
9. 09 - The Contents of the Packet — 12:03
10. 10 - Rejected — 12:39
11. 11 - A Midnight Episode — 14:06
12. 12 - A Morning Visitor — 11:36
13. 13 - The Picture — 25:22
14. 14 - The Duchess' Ball — 18:40
15. 15 - Mr Lessingham Speaks — 15:09
16. 16 - Atherton's Magic Vapour — 18:49
17. 17 - Magic?--Or Miracle? — 5:23
18. 18 - The Apotheosis of the Beetle — 34:33
19. 19 - The Lady Rages — 10:25
20. 20 - A Heavy Father — 10:34
21. 21 - The Terror in the Night — 26:24
22. 22 - The Haunted Man — 27:58
23. 23 - The Way He Told Her — 14:41
24. 24 - A Woman's View — 9:31

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