The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, credited to Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. Read by Tony Oliva. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, by Vicente Blasco Ibañez and translated into English by Charlotte Brewster Jordan, depicts two branches of a family with its roots in the pampas of Argentina. The wealthy Argentinian, Julio Madariaga, comes from Spain and raises himself from poverty, becoming a self-made, wealthy cattleman. He is a man of extremes; an honest man with a rascally knack for taking advantage of others; a self-made man with overweening pride, prejudices, and a sharp, flinty temper that can spark into violence, he is at the same time given to great generosity toward those who are under him. This almost feudal lord has two daughters who marry expatriates, a Frenchman and a German. Julio Madariaga leaves his stamp on these two families who, after his death, return to the native countries of his two sons in law. At that time, the mood of Europe is in many ways similar to that of the old gaucho, a mixture of generosity, explosive anger, romanticism, strong prejudices, and wounded pride, a mood composed of extremes painted on an oversized canvas. World War I is waiting in the wings and will leave its own stamp on the old gaucho's lineage, pitting them against each other on opposite sides in the violent first year that many think will last only a few months but will, in fact, result in improbable destruction and loss of lives. An old Russian visionary given to drink, looks out on red skies one day and experiences its coming in a vision: hoofbeats; and riders. --Summary by Tony Oliva and released to public domain.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
• Author credits: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 72
• Listed recording duration: 16:27:42

Catalogue topics

• family saga
• Argentina
• pampa
• Spain
• Madariaga
• World War I
• Family divided
• France

Opening tracks: first 24 of 72

1. 01 - part 1 - chapter 1 The Tryst (check tags) — 11:25
2. 02 - part 1 - chapter 1 continued — 14:20
3. 03 - part 1 - chapter 1 continued — 14:01
4. 04 - part 1 - chapter 1 continued — 13:51
5. 05 - part 1 - chapter 1 continued — 12:00
6. 06 - part 1 - chapter 1 continued — 4:39
7. 07 - part 1 - chapter 2 Madariaga, the Centaur — 13:29
8. 08 - part 1 - chapter 2 continued — 10:58
9. 09 - Part 1 - chapter 2 continued — 13:11
10. 10 - part 1 - chapter 2 continued — 13:18
11. 11 - part 1 - chapter 2 continued — 16:10
12. 12 - part 1 - chapter 2 continued — 15:05
13. 13 - part 1 - chapter 3 The Desnoyers Family — 13:57
14. 14 - part 1 - chapter 3 continued — 16:11
15. 15 - part 1 - chapter 3 continued — 16:01
16. 16 - part 1 - chapter 3 continued — 16:21
17. 17 - part 1 - chapter 3 continued — 16:12
18. 18 - part 1 - chapter 3 continued — 5:25
19. 19 - part 1 - chapter 4 The Cousin from Berlin — 17:56
20. 20 - part 1 - chapter 4 continued — 19:51
21. 21 - part 1 - chapter 4 continued — 17:06
22. 22 - part 1 - chapter 5 In Which Appear the Four Horsemen — 16:06
23. 23 - part 1 - chapter 5 continued — 8:17
24. 24 - part 1 - chapter 5 continued — 16:35

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