The Golden Calf: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Golden Calf, credited to Mary Elizabeth Braddon, 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 Golden Calf by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Read by Tara Dow A late 19th Century sensation novel following the young life of Ida Palliser as she searches for fortune and love within England's Gentry Class. Victorian sensation books were often set in ordinary, familiar setting, undermining the perceived adherence to social convention. They exposed the true lives of Victorian England's upper class - lives they tried to keep hidden. (summary by James Dow)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Golden Calf
• Author credits: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 32
• Listed recording duration: 16:49:48

Catalogue topics

• sensation novel
• Victorian romance
• temperance

Opening tracks: first 24 of 32

1. 01 - The Articled Pupil — 25:04
2. 02 - I Am Going To Marry for Money — 37:23
3. 03 - At the Knoll — 25:17
4. 04 - Wendover Abbey — 23:15
5. 05 - Dr. Rylance Asserts Himself — 20:04
6. 06 - A Birthday Feast — 51:35
7. 07 - In the River-Meadow — 1:08:43
8. 08 - At the Lock-House — 34:26
9. 09 - A Solemn League and Covenant — 24:54
10. 10 - A Bad Penny — 35:53
11. 11 - Accomplishments at a Discount — 54:24
12. 12 - The Sword of Democles — 28:32
13. 13 - Kingthorpe Society — 33:26
14. 14 - The True Knight — 1:08:08
15. 15 - Mr. Wendover Plans an Excursion — 19:10
16. 16 - Thicker Than Water — 14:54
17. 17 - Ought She To Stay — 14:19
18. 18 - After a Storm Comes a Calm — 11:26
19. 19 - After a Calm a Storm — 25:12
20. 20 - Was This The Motive? — 34:41
21. 21 - Taking Life Quietly — 30:43
22. 22 - Lady Palliser Studies the Upper Ten — 31:18
23. 23 - All Our Life is Mixed With Death — 17:26
24. 24 - Fruits Fail and Love Dies and Time Ranges — 33:53

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