The Coquette, Or The History of Eliza Wharton: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Coquette, Or The History of Eliza Wharton, credited to Hannah Webster Foster, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of The Coquette, Or The History of Eliza Wharton by Hannah Webster Foster. Read in English by volunteer readers. The classic early American epistolary novel about the seduction and ruin of a passionate young woman. Based on the true story of Elizabeth Whitman, whose lonesome death in childbirth in a Connecticut inn sparked widespread discussion and outrage, the novel went through many editions and innumerable printings in the century after its initial publication in 1797. (Summary by Jon Miller)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Coquette, Or The History of Eliza Wharton
• Author credits: Hannah Webster Foster
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 14
• Listed recording duration: 6:32:05

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• romance
• Historical Fiction
• society
• family life

Track guide

1. 00 - Introduction — 38:07
2. 01 - Letters I through VII — 26:19
3. 02 - Letters VIII through XIV — 27:13
4. 03 - Letters XV through XXIII — 28:42
5. 04 - Letters XXIV through XXIX — 32:18
6. 05 - Letters XXX through XXXVII — 29:44
7. 06 - Letters XXXVIII through XL — 27:42
8. 07 - Letters XLI through XLIII — 26:59
9. 08 - Letters XLIV through L — 22:00
10. 09 - Letters LI through LVI — 27:47
11. 10 - Letters LVII through LXI — 26:48
12. 11 - Letters LXII through LXVI — 28:55
13. 12 - Letters LXVII through LXIX — 21:53
14. 13 - Letters LXX through LXXIV — 27:37

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