The Eustace Diamonds: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Eustace Diamonds, credited to Anthony Trollope, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollop, read by LibriVox volunteers. Lizzie Greystock, a fortune-hunter who ensnares the sickly, dissipated Sir Florian Eustace, is soon left a very wealthy widow and mother. While clever and beautiful, Lizzie has several character flaws; the greatest of these is an almost pathological delight in lying, even when it cannot benefit her. Before he dies, the disillusioned Sir Florian discovers all this, but does not think to change the generous terms of his will. The diamonds of the book's title are a necklace, a Eustace family heirloom that Sir Florian gave to Lizzie to wear. Lizzie attempts to hold onto them, much to the irritation of the longtime family lawyer, Mr Camperdown. The Eustaces find themselves in an awkward position. On the one hand, the diamonds are a valuable heirloom to which Lizzie may not have a legal claim, but on the other, they do not want to antagonize the mother of the heir to the family estate (Lizzie having only a life interest).Meanwhile, after a respectable period of mourning, Lizzie searches for another husband, and "the plot thickens". (Summary from Wikipedia) This is the third of Trollop's six "Palliser" novels. LibriVox recordings of other novels in the series are available: Can you forgive her? Phinneas Finn, the Irish Member Phinneas Redux A recording of The Prime Minister, the fifth novel in the series, underway.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Eustace Diamonds
• Author credits: Anthony Trollope
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 80
• Listed recording duration: 27:30:47

Catalogue topics

• audio book
• Palliser novels
• novel
• fiction
• Victorian novels
• historical novels
• English politics

Opening tracks: first 24 of 80

1. 01 - Lizzie Greystock — 24:59
2. 02 - Lady Eustace — 21:56
3. 03 - Lucy Morris — 21:39
4. 04 - Frank Greystock — 18:19
5. 05 - The Eustace Necklace — 30:04
6. 06 - Lady Linlithgow's Mission — 18:56
7. 07 - Mr Burke's Speeches — 21:47
8. 08 - The Conquering Hero Comes — 16:16
9. 09 - Showing What the Miss Fawns Said, and What Mrs. Hittaway Thought — 27:07
10. 10 - Lizzie and her Lover — 32:14
11. 11 - Lord Fawn at His Office — 16:18
12. 12 - I Only Thought of It — 15:11
13. 13 - Showing What Frank Greystock Did — 21:50
14. 14 - Doan't Thou Marry for Munny — 21:31
15. 15 - I'll Give You a Hundred Guinea Brooch — 24:49
16. 16 - Certainly an Heirloom — 18:47
17. 17 - The Diamonds Are Seen in Public — 18:02
18. 18 - And I Have Nothing to Give — 27:04
19. 19 - As My Brother — 26:20
20. 20 - The Diamonds Become Troublesome — 15:24
21. 21 - Ianthe's Soul — 20:30
22. 22 - Lady Eustace Procures a Pony for the Use of Her Cousin — 13:38
23. 23 - Frank Greystock's First Visit to Portray — 20:06
24. 24 - Showing What Frank Greystock Thought About Marriage — 15:47

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