The Efficiency Expert: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Efficiency Expert, credited to Edgar Rice Burroughs, 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 Efficiency Expert by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Read by Delmar H. Dolbier Our hero, Jimmy Torrance, Jr., has a hard time finding suitable employment after a brilliant (athletically, at least) college career, despite all kinds of assistance from his friends in the underworld and the wealthy and sophisticated young woman with whom he falls in love. Set in contemporary America, mostly Chicago, this 1921 short novel is one of a handful of Burrough’s works that does not take us to a fantasy or an exotic setting. (Delmar H. Dolbier)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Efficiency Expert
• Author credits: Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 28
• Listed recording duration: 5:11:07

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• 1921
• Chicago
• novel

Opening tracks: first 24 of 28

1. 01 - Jimmy Torrance, Jr. — 11:20
2. 02 - Jimmy Will Accept A Position — 13:16
3. 03 - The Lizard — 14:21
4. 04 - Jimmy Hunts a Job — 10:25
5. 05 - Jimmy Lands One — 13:14
6. 06 - Harold Plays the Raven — 10:57
7. 07 - Jobless Again — 9:29
8. 08 - Bread From the Waters — 9:51
9. 09 - Harold Sits in a Game — 10:49
10. 10 - At Feinheimer's — 6:59
11. 11 - Christmas Eve — 15:42
12. 12 - Up Or Down? — 12:16
13. 13 - Harriet Philosophizes — 7:35
14. 14 - In Again - Out Again — 8:49
15. 15 - Little Eva — 10:19
16. 16 - Jimmy Throws a Bluff — 14:01
17. 17 - Jimmy on the Job — 8:20
18. 18 - The Efficiency Expert — 12:21
19. 19 - Plotting — 12:02
20. 20 - An Invitation to Dine — 8:32
21. 21 - Jimmy Tells the Truth — 13:51
22. 22 - A Letter From Murray — 10:10
23. 23 - Laid Up — 6:50
24. 24 - In the Toils — 10:18

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