The Good Soldier (Version 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Good Soldier (Version 2), 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 (Version 2) by Ford Madox Ford. Read in English by Peter Dann First published in 1915, The Good Soldier might be characterised as a melodrama of English upper class infidelities, cut into little pieces, then retold out of sequence by a narrator who occasionally appears to be half asleep. That is not wholly wrong, yet many have seen in this novel's beguiling voice, innovative narrative technique, and acute depiction of erotic repression a literary masterpiece. In 2015, the BBC ranked The Good Soldier 13th on its list of the 100 greatest British novels. (Summary by Peter Dann)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Good Soldier (Version 2)
• Author credits: Ford Madox Ford
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 19
• Listed recording duration: 7:35:20

Catalogue topics

• adultery
• unreliable narrator
• modernism

Track guide

1. 01 - Part 1 Section 1 — 18:00
2. 02 - Part 1 Section 2 — 16:07
3. 03 - Part 1 Section 3 — 25:49
4. 04 - Part 1 Section 4 — 22:36
5. 05 - Part 1 Section 5 — 39:24
6. 06 - Part 1 Section 6 — 15:19
7. 07 - Part 2 Section 1 — 36:19
8. 08 - Part 2 Section 2 — 9:00
9. 09 - Part 3 Section 1 — 35:44
10. 10 - Part 3 Section 2 — 20:09
11. 11 - Part 3 Section 3 — 30:16
12. 12 - Part 3 Section 4 — 24:35
13. 13 - Part 3 Section 5 — 30:35
14. 14 - Part 4 Section 1 — 22:54
15. 15 - Part 4 Section 2 — 35:59
16. 16 - Part 4 Section 3 — 20:05
17. 17 - Part 4 Section 4 — 9:10
18. 18 - Part 4 Section 5 — 19:17
19. 19 - Part 4 Section 6 — 24:02

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