The Explorer: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Explorer by W. Somerset Maugham: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 21 original MP3 tracks, 8:17:31 running time and a link to listen.

The Explorer, credited to W. Somerset Maugham, 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 Explorer by W. Somerset Maugham. Read in English by Lilith Branda An early novel by W. Somerset Maugham about conflicting feelings of self-integrity, filial love, romantic love. Lucy Allerton and Alec MacKenzie have to choose between grasping happiness that is their due and upholding a set of moral values that define themselves. - Summary by Lilith Branda
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Explorer
- Author credits: W. Somerset Maugham
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 21
- Listed recording duration: 8:17:31
Catalogue topics
- fiction
- colonies
Track guide
- 01 - Chapter 1 — 36:50
- 02 - Chapter 2 — 43:00
- 03 - Chapter 3 — 17:19
- 04 - Chapter 4 — 29:45
- 05 - Chapter 5 — 22:48
- 06 - Chapter 6 — 15:55
- 07 - Chapter 7 — 18:42
- 08 - Chapter 8 — 32:42
- 09 - Chapter 9 — 17:53
- 10 - Chapter 10 — 23:08
- 11 - Chapter 11 — 20:55
- 12 - Chapter 12 — 23:26
- 13 - Chapter 13 — 12:10
- 14 - Chapter 14 — 21:16
- 15 - Chapter 15 — 22:12
- 16 - Chapter 16 — 23:53
- 17 - Chapter 17 — 31:57
- 18 - Chapter 18 — 19:14
- 19 - Chapter 19 — 23:38
- 20 - Chapter 20 — 16:15
- 21 - Chapter 21 — 24:33
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Source and rights
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