The Lovels of Arden: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Lovels of Arden, credited to Mary Elizabeth Braddon, 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 Lovels of Arden by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Read by Cathy Barratt The novel traces the return of a young Englishwoman from several years of schooling abroad, to find that her life will not take up where she thought it would. Clarissa Lovel faced not only an emotionally and financially bereft father, but her first glimpse at love - and that not from the best vantage point. (Summary by Cathy Barratt)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Lovels of Arden
• Author credits: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 50
• Listed recording duration: 15:39:23

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• Victorian romance

Opening tracks: first 24 of 50

1. 01 - Chapter I. Coming Home — 24:57
2. 02 - Chapter II. Beginning the World — 13:20
3. 03 - Chapter III. Father and Daughter — 20:15
4. 04 - Chapter IV. Clarissa is 'Taken Up' — 22:50
5. 05 - Chapter V. At Hale Castle — 34:47
6. 06 - Chapter VI. And This is George Fairfax — 16:33
7. 07 - Chapter VII. Dangerous Ground — 15:38
8. 08 - Chapter VIII. Smouldering Fires — 24:23
9. 09 - Chapter IX. Lady Laura Diplomatises — 12:30
10. 10 - Chapter X. Lady Laura's Preparations — 16:27
11. 11 - Chapter XI. Daniel Granger — 16:33
12. 12 - Chapter XII. Mr. Granger is Interested — 15:46
13. 13 - Chapter XIII. Open Treason — 23:44
14. 14 - Chapter XIV. The Morning After — 11:24
15. 15 - Chapter XV. Chiefly Paternal — 15:47
16. 16 - Chapter XVI. Lord Chalderwood is the Cause of Inconvenience — 20:30
17. 17 - Chapter XVII. 'Tis Deepest Winter in Lord Timon's Purse' — 15:01
18. 18 - Chapter XVIII. Something Fatal — 22:49
19. 19 - Chapter XIX. Mr. Granger is Precipitate — 14:07
20. 20 - Chapter XX. Model Villagers — 10:41
21. 21 - Chapter XXI. Very Far Gone — 20:57
22. 22 - Chapter XXII. Taking the Pledge — 18:45
23. 23 - Chapter XXIII. 'He's Sweetest Friend or Hardest Foe' — 17:16
24. 24 - Chapter XXIV. 'It's Arden Court' — 27:17

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