The Jolly Corner: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Jolly Corner, credited to Henry James, 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 Jolly Corner by Henry James. Read in English by Tony Addison. "A miraculous masterpiece" it seemed to Henry James, who wrote it. What actually happens in this most remarkable story (though at one level, it is quite clear - a ghost appears) must ever remain unresolved. Stalked by an alternative self in his childhood home, abandoned by him for more than thirty years, the narrator must find his hidden Hyde, incorporate all the violent possibility he represents into his all too impressionable psyche and still go on living. How? That is the question. Well, Cecilia de Noel has the answer. Check out her alternative conclusion, read by David Wales, here. (Summary by Tony Addison)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Jolly Corner
• Author credits: Henry James
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 3
• Listed recording duration: 2:07:05

Catalogue topics

• ghost story
• psychological exploration

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter One — 45:57
2. 02 - Chapter Two — 1:04:06
3. 03 - Chapter Three — 17:02

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