The Card: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Card, credited to Arnold Bennett, 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 Card by Arnold Bennett. Read by Andy Minter. The ‘Card’ in question is Edward Henry Machin - His mother called him ‘Denry’. This light-hearted story is of his rise from humble beginnings as the son of a washerwoman and sempstress in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, in the pottery towns (which Arnold Bennett christened ‘The Five Towns’) of the English Midlands; how, by his own wits, enterprise and ‘nerve’ he rose to wealth, married bliss and public recognition as the youngest-ever mayor of his home town. “’And yet,’ demanded Councillor Barlow, ‘what’s he done? What great cause is he identified with?’ ‘He’s identified,’ said the speaker, ‘with the great cause of cheering us all up’.” (summary by Andy Minter)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Card
• Author credits: Arnold Bennett
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 7:58:21

Catalogue topics

• classic

Track guide

1. Chapter 01 - The Dance — 39:06
2. Chapter 02 - The Widow Hullin's House — 41:04
3. Chapter 03 - The Pantechnicol — 44:29
4. Chapter 04 - The Wrecking of a Life — 36:20
5. Chapter 05 - The Mercantile Marine — 43:06
6. Chapter 06 - His Burglary — 39:41
7. Chapter 07 - The Rescuer of Dames — 40:51
8. Chapter 08 - Raising a Wigwam — 43:25
9. Chapter 09 - The Great Newspaper War — 36:40
10. Chapter 10 - His Infamy — 41:35
11. Chapter 11 - In the Alps — 41:09
12. Chapter 12 - The Supreme Honour — 31:02

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