The Inheritance: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Inheritance, credited to Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier, 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 Inheritance by Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier. Read in English by Jim Locke "As the noblest attribute of man, family pride had been cherished time immemorial by the noble race of Rossville. Deep and incurable, therefore, was the wound inflicted on all its members by the marriage of the honorable Thomas St. Clair, the youngest son of the Earl of Rossville, with the humble Miss Sarah Black, a beautiful girl of obscure origin and no fortune." And so the stage is set for our plot, which focuses on the implications and complications of the return from France to Scotland of the Rossville widow and her daughter-heiress Gertrude, who must suffer the onslaught of relations and suitors as well as a mysterious, threatening stranger who plagues her mother. And while we suffer with Gertrude, who also may be in love with the wrong man, we enjoy a myriad of wonderful satiric portraits of the menagerie of minor characters in this lively story. (Summary by Jim Locke)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Inheritance
• Author credits: Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 106
• Listed recording duration: 22:45:40

Catalogue topics

• emotional drama
• conflict of values
• social inequities

Opening tracks: first 24 of 106

1. 001 - Volume I. Chapter I — 11:24
2. 002 - Volume I. Chapter II — 11:34
3. 003 - Volume I. Chapter III — 18:22
4. 004 - Volume I. Chapter IV — 13:17
5. 005 - Volume I. Chapter V — 12:02
6. 006 - Volume I. Chapter VI — 12:57
7. 007 - Volume I. Chapter VII — 11:56
8. 008 - Volume I. Chapter VIII — 21:13
9. 009 - Volume I. Chapter IX — 13:57
10. 010 - Volume I. Chapter X — 9:01
11. 011 - Volume I. Chapter XI — 15:42
12. 012 - Volume I. Chapter XII — 16:48
13. 013 - Volume I. Chapter XIII — 15:29
14. 014 - Volume I. Chapter XIV — 17:12
15. 015 - Volume I. Chapter XV — 13:35
16. 016 - Volume I. Chapter XVI — 16:28
17. 017 - Volume I. Chapter XVII — 15:53
18. 018 - Volume I. Chapter XVIII — 15:49
19. 019 - Volume I. Chapter XIX — 13:05
20. 020 - Volume I. Chapter XX — 11:12
21. 021 - Volume I. Chapter XXI — 14:35
22. 022 - Volume I. Chapter XXII — 18:09
23. 023 - Volume I. Chapter XXIII — 7:52
24. 024 - Volume I. Chapter XXIV — 11:32

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