The Gambler: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Gambler, credited to Katherine Thurston, 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 Gambler, by Katherine Thurston. Read by Tom Weiss. Clodagh, 18 years old, is the eldest daughter of Dennis Asshlin, an Irish gentleman who lives in an area of Ireland called Orristown. Dennis is passionate, proud and indebted to no one. But, Dennis has an obsession with gambling that is leading the family to ruin. When tragedy strikes, Clodagh finds herself in a situation where she must defend the family honor because “no Asshlin is ever obliged to anyone”. She marries a man she does not love who is many times her age and is thrust from adolescence to adulthood literally overnight. Clodagh travels to Europe and mingles with people of society and fashion which through her immaturity, she believes is her right. She finds instead uncertainty, despondency, and deceit. Her emotions are constantly in battle with reality as she discovers her society acquaintances are not the “friends” she believes them to be. During her visit to Europe, Clodagh discovers that she too is burdened with the Asshlin curse for gambling which eventually leads to more heartbreak. A chance encounter seems to change her life and she returns to Ireland, only once again to be thwarted by the Asshlin curse. A surprise and tense ending is in store for the listener. (Introduction by Tom Weiss)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Gambler
• Author credits: Katherine Thurston
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 15
• Listed recording duration: 13:20:03

Catalogue topics

• fiction

Track guide

1. 01 - Part 1, Chapters 1 through 4 — 1:01:54
2. 02 - Part 1, Chapters 5 through 7 — 55:37
3. 03 - Part 1, Chapter 8; Part 2, Chapters 1 through 3 — 58:35
4. 04 - Part 2, Chapters 4 through 6 — 59:30
5. 05 - Part 2, Chapters 7 and 8; Part 3 - Chapter 1 — 54:53
6. 06 - Part 3, Chapters 2 through 4 — 47:55
7. 07 - Part 3, Chapters 5 through 8 — 51:28
8. 08 - Part 3, Chapters 9 through 12 — 1:11:01
9. 09 - Part 4, Chapters 1 through 3 — 48:54
10. 10 - Part 4, Chapters 4 through 6 — 44:20
11. 11 - Part 4, Chapters 7 and 8 — 42:22
12. 12 - Part 4, Chapters 9 through 11 — 50:06
13. 13 - Part 4, Chapters 12 through 14 — 43:23
14. 14 - Part 4, Chapters 15 through 17 — 56:54
15. 15 - Part 4, Chapters 18 through 20 — 53:22

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