The Dark Star: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Dark Star, credited to Robert W. Chambers, 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 Dark Star by Robert W. Chambers. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers Ruhannah “Rue” Carew, who dreams of becoming an artist, has grown up listening to her father tell the story of how he came by a wooden box and its unusual contents, which include a bronze figure of a god and the diary of a departed friend of her father’s. One day Rue meets an unscrupulous man named Eddie Brandes, who is so taken with her that he hides his true nature in order to win the trust and regard of her and her parents, with an eye to marrying her. But neither Rue nor her parents suspect that Eddie is already married to an actress named Ilse Dumont. Rue learns the truth about Eddie under devastating circumstances, leaving her at a loss as to what to do with her life in the aftermath of her discovery. But with the help of her friend Jim Neeland, Rue finds herself crossing the Atlantic headed to Paris in order to pursue her dream and study art. Several years pass. It is the eve of the Great War. One day, Jim receives an urgent message that he is to find the box in Rue’s old house and bring it with him to her in Paris. Jim, unaware of how high the stakes are, what the significance is of the precious contents of the box, and just how far others are willing to go in order to keep it from reaching its destination, sets out for the adventure of a lifetime. During this adventure, his life and those of Ilse Dumont, Eddie Brandes, and Rue Carew - all four born under the “dark star” - intertwine in extraordinary ways. (Summary by Scarbo)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Dark Star
• Author credits: Robert W. Chambers
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 36
• Listed recording duration: 12:23:05

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• spy novels
• World War I Fiction

Opening tracks: first 24 of 36

1. 00 - Preface: Children of the Star — 16:44
2. 01 - Chapter 1. The Wonder-Box — 42:24
3. 02 - Chapter 2. Brookhollow — 18:50
4. 03 - Chapter 3. In Embryo — 11:24
5. 04 - Chapter 4. The Trodden Way — 13:08
6. 05 - Chapter 5. Ex Machina — 23:37
7. 06 - Chapter 6. The End of Solitude — 17:31
8. 07 - Chapter 7. Obsession — 16:49
9. 08 - Chapter 8. A Change Impends — 12:13
10. 09 - Chapter 9. Nonresistance — 20:54
11. 10 - Chapter 10. Driving Head-On — 16:33
12. 11 - Chapter 11. The Breakers — 19:03
13. 12 - Chapter 12. A Life Line — 21:38
14. 13 - Chapter 13. Letters from a Little Girl — 34:54
15. 14 - Chapter 14. A Journey Begins — 8:56
16. 15 - Chapter 15. The Locked House — 30:33
17. 16 - Chapter 16. Scheherazade — 22:15
18. 17 - Chapter 17. A White Skirt — 16:27
19. 18 - Chapter 18. By Radio — 29:56
20. 19 - Chapter 19. The Captain of the Volhynia — 10:44
21. 20 - Chapter 20. The Drop of Irish — 27:42
22. 21 - Chapter 21. Method and Foresight — 11:58
23. 22 - Chapter 22. Two Thirteen — 14:14
24. 23 - Chapter 23. On His Way — 15:42

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