The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today, credited to Mark Twain & Charles Dudley Warner, 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 GILDED AGE, A TALE OF TODAY, by MARK TWAIN & CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER. Read by JOHN GREENMAN. Originally published in 1873, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is the only novel Twain co-wrote (C.D. Warner was a good friend and neighbor of the Clemens family in Hartford, and the collaboration sprang from their wive's challenge and encouragement). The title, "The Gilded Age" became synonymous with graft, materialism and corruption in public life, which are well represented in this work. Like others of his works, this one reflects truths about American Society that remain pertinent today. Many of the characters and incidents that occur in the Gilded Age had their real-life origins in Clemens relatives and history, a fact which he revealed in his newly published (2011) Autobiography. (Introduction by John Greenman & Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today
• Author credits: Mark Twain & Charles Dudley Warner
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 64
• Listed recording duration: 16:09:02

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• politics
• satire

Opening tracks: first 24 of 64

1. 00 Preface — 3:10
2. 01 Chapter 1 — 20:58
3. 02 Chapter 2 — 7:52
4. 03 Chapter 3 — 9:15
5. 04 Chapter 4 — 21:01
6. 05 Chapter 5 — 17:48
7. 06 Chapter 6 — 22:12
8. 07 Chapter 7 — 15:19
9. 08 Chapter 8 — 18:35
10. 09 Chapter 9 — 12:40
11. 10 Chapter 10 — 16:54
12. 11 Chapter 11 — 12:01
13. 12 Chapter 12 — 15:59
14. 13 Chapter 13 — 17:36
15. 14 Chapter 14 — 12:33
16. 15 Chapter 15 — 17:42
17. 16 Chapter 16 — 17:15
18. 17 Chapter 17 — 14:19
19. 18 Chapter 18 — 16:41
20. 19 Chapter 19 — 16:42
21. 20 Chapter 20 — 14:35
22. 21 Chapter 21 — 14:40
23. 22 Chapter 22 — 17:57
24. 23 Chapter 23 — 5:52

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