The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Version 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Version 2), credited to Henry Fielding, 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 History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Version 2) by Henry Fielding. Read in English by Peter Dann. "I do not pretend to say the young man is without faults; but they are all the faults of wildness and of youth; faults which he may, nay, which I am certain he will, relinquish." One of the great works of the English literary canon, this comic masterpiece, first published in 1749, draws us into the lives of two neighbouring Somersetshire squires and friends, one genial and generous, the other a hot-headed lover of the hunt and the bottle, who conspire together, on the basis of a mutual misunderstanding, to marry the former's nephew to the latter's daughter, very much to the discomfort of the young lady herself, whose true affections lie with Tom Jones, a foundling (ie, bastard child of persons unknown) whom the genial squire has raised almost like a son, but who has of late disgraced himself in various ways, some real and others imagined. While there are not many true villains in this tale, several key players are extremely sure they have right on their side, and don't mind expressing themselves with great gusto, while ever waiting in the wings is the author himself, ready to step forward and share his own thoughts on the action — and, indeed, on almost any other subject that occurs to him on the spur of the moment. - Summary by Peter Dann

Recording facts

• Recording title: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Version 2)
• Author credits: Henry Fielding
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 55
• Listed recording duration: 33:08:18

Catalogue topics

• bildungsromans
• england -- fiction
• humorous stories
• young men -- fiction
• foundlings -- fiction
• identity (psychology) -- fiction

Opening tracks: first 24 of 55

1. 00 - Author's Preface — 9:01
2. 01 - Bk 1: Ch 1 - 4 — 24:38
3. 02 - Bk 1: Ch 5 - 8 — 28:46
4. 03 - Bk 1: Ch 9 - 13 — 37:30
5. 04 - Bk 2: Ch 1 - 5 — 41:05
6. 05 - Bk 2: Ch 6 - 9 — 37:50
7. 06 - Bk 3: Ch 1 - 5 — 39:43
8. 07 - Bk 3: Ch 6 - 10 — 29:39
9. 08 - Bk 4: Ch 1 - 5 — 39:41
10. 09 - Bk 4: Ch 6 - 8 — 41:15
11. 10 - Bk 4: Ch 9 -14 — 36:00
12. 11 - Bk 5: Ch 1 - 4 — 34:34
13. 12 - Bk 5: Ch 5 - 7 — 43:55
14. 13 - Bk 5: Ch 8 - 12 — 46:59
15. 14 - Bk 6: Ch 1 - 5 — 45:56
16. 15 - Bk 6: Ch 6 - 9 — 32:11
17. 16 - Bk 6: Ch 10 - 14 — 36:37
18. 17 - Bk 7: Ch 1 - 5 — 36:00
19. 18 - Bk 7: Ch 6 - 9 — 39:36
20. 19 - Bk 7: Ch 10 - 12 — 34:48
21. 20 - Bk 7: Ch 13 - 15 — 35:02
22. 21 - Bk 8: Ch 1 - 4 — 38:19
23. 22 - Bk 8: Ch 5 - 8 — 37:35
24. 23 - Bk 8: Ch 9 - 10 — 30:44

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