The Job: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Job, credited to Sinclair Lewis, 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 Job, by Sinclair Lewis. Read by Michelle Harris. 'The Job' is an early work by American novelist Sinclair Lewis. It is considered an early declaration of the rights of working women. The focus is on the main character, Una Golden, who desires to establish herself in a legitimate occupation while balancing the eventual need for marriage. The story takes place in the early 1900-1920's and takes Una from a small Pennsylvania town to New York. Forced to work due to family illness, Una shows a talent for the traditional male bastion of commercial real estate and, while valued by her company, she struggles to achieve the same status of her male coworkers. On a parallel track, her quest for traditional romance and love is important but her unique role as a working woman... makes it tough to find an appropriate suitor. (Summary by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Job
• Author credits: Sinclair Lewis
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 26
• Listed recording duration: 11:59:32

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• feminism
• working women

Opening tracks: first 24 of 26

1. 01 - Part 1 - The City; Ch 1 — 30:40
2. 02 - Part 1 - The City; Ch 2 — 17:28
3. 03 - Part 1 - The City; Ch 3 — 40:34
4. 04 - Part 1 - The City; Ch 4 — 26:05
5. 05 - Part 1 - The City; Ch 5 part 1 — 29:04
6. 06 - Part 1 - The City; Ch 5 part 2 — 31:40
7. 07 - Part 1 - The City; Ch 6 — 33:23
8. 08 - Part 1 - The City; Ch 7 — 34:03
9. 09 - Part 1 - The City; Ch 8 — 48:11
10. 10 - Part 2 - The Office; Ch 9 part 1 — 32:22
11. 11 - Part 2 - The Office; Ch 9 part 2 — 16:53
12. 12 - Part 2 - The Office; Ch 10 — 21:08
13. 13 - Part 2 - The Office; Ch 11 — 30:38
14. 14 - Part 2 - The Office; Ch 12 — 19:26
15. 15 - Part 2 - The Office; Ch 13 part 1 — 38:27
16. 16 - Part 2 - The Office; Ch 13 part 2 — 29:12
17. 17 - Part 2 - The Office; Ch 14 — 47:02
18. 18 - Part 2 - The Office; Ch 15 — 25:32
19. 19 - Part 3 - Man and Woman; Ch 16 — 27:36
20. 20 - Part 3 - Man and Woman; Ch 17 — 22:43
21. 21 - Part 3 - Man and Woman; Ch 18 — 9:51
22. 22 - Part 3 - Man and Woman; Ch 19 — 23:25
23. 23 - Part 3 - Man and Woman; Ch 20 — 34:14
24. 24 - Part 3 - Man and Woman; Ch 21 — 12:43

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