The Criminal from Lost Honour: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Criminal from Lost Honour, credited to Friedrich Schiller, 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 Criminal from Lost Honour by Friedrich Schiller. (Translated by John Oxenford.) Read in English by Crln Yldz Ksr "In the whole history of man there is no chapter more instructive for the heart and mind than the annals of his errors. On the occasion of every great crime a proportionally great force was in motion. If by the pale light of ordinary emotions the play of the desiring faculty is concealed, in the situation of strong passion it becomes the more striking, the more colossal, the more audible, and the acute investigator of humanity, who knows how much may be properly set down to the account of the mechanism of the ordinary freedom of the will, and how far it is allowable to reason by analogy, will be able from this source to gather much fresh experience for his psychology, and to render it applicable to moral life." (Introductory Paragraph) Christian Wolf is a man not endowed with any special features, host of the inn the Sun, in need of money, and unnhappily in love. The want of money leads him to minor crimes, and the disproportionally severe punishments spark in him an overpowering thirst for revenge, spiraling him ever deeper into trouble. This short story is at the same time a work of fiction, relating the story of an individual through his criminal career, and a work of enlightenment, showing how external circumstances can slowly transform a good man into a criminal. - Summary by Carolin.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Criminal from Lost Honour
• Author credits: Friedrich Schiller
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 3
• Listed recording duration: 1:06:26

Catalogue topics

• Crime
• yldz
• criminal
• Germany
• Schiller
• enlightenment
• poaching

Track guide

1. 01 - Part 1 — 28:05
2. 02 - Part 2 — 18:56
3. 03 - Part 3 — 19:25

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