The Black Robe: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Black Robe, credited to Wilkie Collins, 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 Black Robe, by Wilkie Collins. The church has lost out on a valuable piece of land through wars and transfers. Father Benwell is determined to reclaim that property by the conversion of the owner, Lewis Romayne. Enter beautiful Stella, who captures the heart of Romayne. Should Stella capture the love and devotion of Romayne, Father Benwell's scheme would fail, and that is something that he can not allow. Complicating things is the fact that both Romayne and Stella are hiding their own terrible secrets. The Black Robe is an 1881 epistolary novel by famed English writer, Wilkie Collins. The book centers around the misadventures of Lewis Romayne, and is also noted for a perceived anti-Catholic bias (Summary by Mike Zane and Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Black Robe
• Author credits: Wilkie Collins
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 42
• Listed recording duration: 12:19:38

Catalogue topics

• Mystery
• Catholic Church
• epistolary novel
• Black Robe
• Wilkie Collins
• Father Bentwell
• Lewis Romayne
• Stella Eyrecourt

Opening tracks: first 24 of 42

1. 0 - 1 - Before the Story, First Scene — 42:33
2. 0 - 2 - Before the Story, Second Scene — 29:14
3. 1 - 01 - Book the First, Chapter 1 — 18:21
4. 1 - 02 - Book the First, Chapter 2 — 14:12
5. 1 - 03 - Book the First, Chapter 3 — 17:18
6. 1 - 04 - Book the First, Chapter 4 — 10:15
7. 1 - 05 - Book the First, Chapter 5 — 15:23
8. 1 - 06 - Book the First, Chapter 6 — 16:26
9. 1 - 07 - Book the First, Chapter 7 — 11:47
10. 1 - 08 - Book the First, Chapter 8 — 19:30
11. 1 - 09 - Book the First, Chapter 9 — 6:06
12. 1 - 10 - Book the First, Chapter 10 — 15:56
13. 1 - 11 - Book the First, Chapter 11 — 12:20
14. 1 - 12 - Book the First, Chapter 12 — 27:24
15. 1 - 13 - Book the First, Chapter 13 — 3:04
16. 2 - 1 - Book the Second, Chapter 1 — 15:19
17. 2 - 2 - Book the Second, Chapter 2 — 17:28
18. 2 - 3 - Book the Second, Chapter 3 — 10:47
19. 2 - 4 - Book the Second, Chapter 4 — 19:28
20. 3 - 1 - Book the Third, Chapter 1 — 7:20
21. 3 - 2 - Book the Third, Chapter 2 — 17:08
22. 3 - 3 - Book the Third, Chapter 3 — 15:02
23. 3 - 4 - Book the Third, Chapter 4 — 19:33
24. 3 - 5 - 1 - Book the Third, Chapter 5, Part 1 — 24:39

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