The Fair Rewards: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Fair Rewards, credited to Thomas Beer, 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 Fair Rewards by Thomas Beer. Read by Greg W. "The Fair Rewards" by Thomas Beer . . . is a really distinguished novel. The writing is far above the average: it has style and sophistication and personality, intermingled with a truly vivid show of imagination. It even borders on brilliancy, but it is a hard, cold, cynical sort of brilliancy that chills. It almost hurts . . . The title itself is indicative of cynicism. It is derived from Shakespeare's quotation, "These be the fair rewards of those that love," and it is an ironical reference, for Mark Walling, the blind, simple, loving idolater, in return for his great and unselfish devotion to Margot, reaps selfishness and ingratitude and lack of consideration. Hand in hand with the progress of Mark from country yokel to a stage producer goes the history of the American theatre. Intermingled with the imaginary characters are Clyde Fitch, Anna Held, Mr. Frohman and several other flesh-and-blood personages that strengthen the realism. (New York Times review, June 4, 1922)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Fair Rewards
• Author credits: Thomas Beer
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 11
• Listed recording duration: 6:39:14

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• theatre

Track guide

1. 01 - Manufacture of a Personage — 20:35
2. 02 - He Progresses — 34:01
3. 03 - Full Bloom — 43:56
4. 04 - Penalties — 37:52
5. 05 - Margot — 43:29
6. 06 - Gurdy — 48:25
7. 07 - Todgers Intrudes — 30:27
8. 08 - Cosmo Rand — 31:00
9. 09 - Bubble — 49:26
10. 10 - The Idolater — 31:07
11. 11 - The Walling — 29:04

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