The Mayor of Casterbridge (version 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Mayor of Casterbridge (version 2) by Thomas Hardy: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 45 original MP3 tracks, 12:51:17 running time and a link to listen.
The Mayor of Casterbridge (version 2), credited to Thomas Hardy, 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 Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy. Read by Bruce Pirie. Irritated and drunken, an itinerant farm-worker sells his wife and child to a stranger. Thus begins The Mayor of Casterbridge, set in rural and small-town England in the mid-1800s. In the original subtitle, Hardy called this the story of "a man of character," and the central character, Michael Henchard, is one of English fiction's greatest creations. Henchard is deeply developed as a realistic character, but also larger-than-life in the manner of a Greek or Shakespearean tragic hero — huge in his determination and huge in his failings. The novel deals with the struggles between individual will, the hold of the past, and the relentless control of circumstances in a changing society. (Summary by Bruce Pirie)
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Mayor of Casterbridge (version 2)
- Author credits: Thomas Hardy
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 45
- Listed recording duration: 12:51:17
Catalogue topics
- mayor of casterbridge
- thomas hardy
Opening tracks: first 24 of 45
- 01 - Chapter 01 — 30:51
- 02 - Chapter 02 — 10:41
- 03 - Chapter 03 — 11:20
- 04 - Chapter 04 — 17:25
- 05 - Chapter 05 — 14:16
- 06 - Chapter 06 — 10:35
- 07 - Chapter 07 — 16:36
- 08 - Chapter 08 — 16:15
- 09 - Chapter 09 — 18:55
- 10 - Chapter 10 — 9:31
- 11 - Chapter 11 — 12:49
- 12 - Chapter 12 — 12:49
- 13 - Chapter 13 — 11:34
- 14 - Chapter 14 — 21:46
- 15 - Chapter 15 — 15:42
- 16 - Chapter 16 — 15:27
- 17 - Chapter 17 — 16:57
- 18 - Chapter 18 — 11:31
- 19 - Chapter 19 — 19:21
- 20 - Chapter 20 — 23:12
- 21 - Chapter 21 — 17:11
- 22 - Chapter 22 — 24:30
- 23 - Chapter 23 — 18:44
- 24 - Chapter 24 — 20:11
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