The Guilty River: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Guilty River, credited to Wilkie Collins, 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 Guilty River by Wilkie Collins. After his father’s death Gerard Roylake returns from Germany to take up his inheritance at Trimley Deen. On one evening he meets his childhood friend, Cristel Toller. They fall in love, but there is a crux. A deaf man, called The Lodger is obsessed with Cristel. He invites Gerard to tea with evil intentions… and Gerard accepts the invitation. The book is written in the first person and tells the story from Gerard's point of view. (Summary by Diana Majlinger)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Guilty River
• Author credits: Wilkie Collins
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 4:27:53

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• novels
• Victorian

Track guide

1. 01 - On the Way to the River — 13:28
2. 02 - The River Introduces Us — 12:06
3. 03 - He Shows Himself — 6:26
4. 04 - He Explains Himself — 7:28
5. 05 - He Betrays Himself — 25:52
6. 06 - The Return of the Portfolio — 27:32
7. 07 - The Best Society — 10:18
8. 08 - The Deaf Lodger — 16:45
9. 09 - Mrs. Roylake's Game: First Move — 11:00
10. 10 - Warned! — 9:04
11. 11 - Warned Again! — 9:50
12. 12 - Warned for the Last Time! — 21:37
13. 13 - The Claret Jug — 26:02
14. 14 - Gloody Settles the Account — 10:38
15. 15 - The Miller's Hospitality — 33:18
16. 16 - Bribery and Corruption — 9:08
17. 17 - Utter Failure — 7:02
18. 18 - The Mistress of Trimley Deen — 10:26

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