The Breaking Point: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Breaking Point, credited to Mary Roberts Rinehart, 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 Breaking Point, by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Read by Nicholas Clifford. Mary Roberts Rinehart -- "America's Agatha Christie," as she used to be called -- set this story in a New York suburban town, shortly after the end of the first world war. Dick Livingstone is a young, successful doctor, who in the course of events becomes engaged to Elizabeth Wheeler. But there is a mystery about his past, and he thinks himself honor-bound to unravel it before giving himself to her in marriage. In particular, a shock of undetermined origin has wiped out his memory prior to roughly the last decade. Rinehart, who presumably had been reading, or reading about, the then popular Sigmund Freud, plays on what today is called "repressed memory," as she takes Dick into his past, and into the dangers that, unknown to him, lurk there. Is she correct about the behavior of memory? Who knows? After all, this is not a clinical treatise, but a work of fiction, one of the thrillers that made her such a popular writer of the earlier twentieth century.(Introduction by Nicholas Clifford)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Breaking Point
• Author credits: Mary Roberts Rinehart
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 48
• Listed recording duration: 11:27:23

Catalogue topics

• adventure
• fiction
• mystery
• romance

Opening tracks: first 24 of 48

1. 01 - Chapter I — 18:08
2. 02 - Chapter II — 11:36
3. 03 - Chapter III — 22:52
4. 04 - Chapter IV — 6:27
5. 05 - Chapter V — 9:51
6. 06 - Chapter VI — 7:42
7. 07 - Chapter VII — 15:16
8. 08 - Chapter VIII — 9:35
9. 09 - Chapter IX — 7:21
10. 10 - Chapter X — 7:45
11. 11 - Chapter XI — 21:58
12. 12 - Chapter XII — 12:54
13. 13 - Chapter XIII — 23:28
14. 14 - Chapter XIV — 16:16
15. 15 - Chapter XV — 12:52
16. 16 - Chapter XVI — 16:36
17. 17 - Chapter XVII — 8:32
18. 18 - Chapter XVIII — 9:41
19. 19 - Chapter XIX — 10:24
20. 20 - Chapter XX — 8:41
21. 21 - Chapter XXI — 14:24
22. 22 - Chapter XXII — 16:09
23. 23 - Chapter XXIII — 14:34
24. 24 - Chapter XXIV — 18:13

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