The Mayor of Casterbridge: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Mayor of Casterbridge, 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 Debra Lynn. The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) is a tragic novel by English author Thomas Hardy subtitled, "The Life and Death of a Man of Character". It is set in the fictional town of Casterbridge (based on the town of Dorchester in Dorset). The book is one of Hardy's Wessex novels, all set in a fictional rustic England.(Summary from Wikipedia) A poor, disgruntled, drunken young man sells his wife and child to the highest bidder. When he awakens, sober, the next day he regrets his rash act and vows to give up drink and find his family and bring them home. Eventually he is forced to give up the search and move on with his life. He does this quite successfully until, nearly 20 years later, his past comes back to haunt him. (Summary be DebraLynn)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Mayor of Casterbridge
• Author credits: Thomas Hardy
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 45
• Listed recording duration: 11:39:29

Catalogue topics

• audio books
• novel
• English literature
• Thomas Hardy
• Wessex

Opening tracks: first 24 of 45

1. Chapter 01 — 27:59
2. Chapter 02 — 9:32
3. Chapter 03 — 10:23
4. Chapter 04 — 15:55
5. Chapter 05 — 13:21
6. Chapter 06 — 10:03
7. Chapter 07 — 15:32
8. Chapter 08 — 15:13
9. Chapter 09 — 18:06
10. Chapter 10 — 8:56
11. Chapter 11 — 12:06
12. Chapter 12 — 11:31
13. Chapter 13 — 10:13
14. Chapter 14 — 19:38
15. Chapter 15 — 15:05
16. Chapter 16 — 14:13
17. Chapter 17 — 15:11
18. Chapter 18 — 10:14
19. Chapter 19 — 17:31
20. Chapter 20 — 21:10
21. Chapter 21 — 16:00
22. Chapter 22 — 22:16
23. Chapter 23 — 17:10
24. Chapter 24 — 18:04

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