The Cliff-Dwellers: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Cliff-Dwellers, credited to Henry Blake Fuller, 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 Cliff-Dwellers by Henry Blake Fuller. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Between the former site of old Fort Dearborn and the present site of our newest Board of Trade there lies a restricted yet tumultuous territory through which, during the course of the last fifty years, the rushing streams of commerce have worn many a deep and rugged chasm. These great canons—conduits, in fact, for the leaping volume of an ever-increasing prosperity—cross each other with a sort of systematic rectangularity, and in deference to the practical directness of local requirements they are in general called simply—streets. Each of these canons is closed in by a long frontage of towering cliffs, and these soaring walls of brick and limestone and granite rise higher and higher with each succeeding year, according as the work of erosion at their bases goes onward—the work of that seething flood of carts, carriages, omnibuses, cabs, cars, messengers, shoppers, clerks, and capitalists, which surges with increasing violence for every passing day. Summary by HENRY B. FULLER.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Cliff-Dwellers
• Author credits: Henry Blake Fuller
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 7:28:23

Catalogue topics

• history
• Chicago
• city
• capitalism
• skyscrapers
• cliff-dwellers

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 00 - Introduction — 7:16
2. 01 - Chapter I — 19:30
3. 02 - Chapter II — 16:09
4. 03 - Chapter III — 21:14
5. 04 - Chapter IV — 20:07
6. 05 - Chapter V — 17:55
7. 06 - Chapter VI — 20:31
8. 07 - Chapter VII — 17:20
9. 08 - Chapter VIII — 16:37
10. 09 - Chapter IX — 18:17
11. 10 - Chapter X — 23:17
12. 11 - Chapter XI — 13:20
13. 12 - Chapter XII — 15:48
14. 13 - Chapter XIII — 23:02
15. 14 - Chapter XIV — 16:22
16. 15 - Chapter XV — 18:17
17. 16 - Chapter XVI — 18:47
18. 17 - Chapter XVII — 17:06
19. 18 - Chapter XIII — 16:08
20. 19 - Chapter XIX — 16:19
21. 20 - Chapter XX — 18:42
22. 21 - Chapter XXI — 17:08
23. 22 - Chapter XXII — 21:29
24. 23 - Chapter XXIII — 17:13

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