The Good Soldier: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Good Soldier, credited to Ford Madox Ford, 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 Good Soldier, by Ford Madox Ford. Read by various volunteer readers. The Good Soldier (1915) "... is set just before World War I and chronicles the tragedies of the lives of two seemingly perfect couples. The novel is told using a series of flashbacks in non-chronological order, a literary technique pioneered by Ford. It also makes use of the device of the unreliable narrator, as the main character gradually reveals a version of events that is quite different from what the introduction leads you to believe. The novel was loosely based on two incidents of adultery and on Ford's messy personal life.” (Summary by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Good Soldier
• Author credits: Ford Madox Ford
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 7:39:35

Catalogue topics

• soldier
• unreliable narrator
• adultery
• suicide

Track guide

1. 01 - Part 1, Section 1 — 17:12
2. 02 - Part 1, Section 2 — 15:25
3. 03 - Part 1, Section 3 — 25:09
4. 04 - Part 1, Section 4 — 22:25
5. 05 - Part 1, Section 5 — 37:36
6. 06 - Part 1, Section 6 — 16:19
7. 07 - Part 2, Section 1 — 36:55
8. 08 - Part 2, Section 2 — 9:31
9. 09 - Part 3, Section 1a — 18:03
10. 10 - Part 3, Section 1b — 20:26
11. 11 - Part 3, Section 2 — 19:36
12. 12 - Part 3, Section 3 — 32:56
13. 13 - Part 3, Section 4a — 24:48
14. 14 - Part 3, Section 4b — 31:52
15. 15 - Part 4, Section 1 — 21:45
16. 16 - Part 4, Section 2 — 37:51
17. 17 - Part 4, Section 3 — 23:19
18. 18 - Part 4, Section 4 — 10:41
19. 19 - Part 4, Section 5 — 16:32
20. 20 - Part 4, Section 6 — 21:29

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