The Metropolis: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Metropolis by Upton Sinclair: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 21 original MP3 tracks, 10:48:28 running time and a link to listen.
The Metropolis, credited to Upton Sinclair, 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 Metropolis by Upton Sinclair. Read in English by Richard Kilmer In this 1907 novel about the extravagant life of New York City’s high society, the author of The Jungle, presents a portrait of the wealthy elite. Allan Montague, a lawyer of thirty, moves to New York City from Mississippi, along with his mother and cousin Alice, to join his younger brother Oliver, who had moved to the city few years before. Allan discover that Oliver has become a member of a fast-paced social circuit comprising some of the most powerful members of the business class. Oliver introduces Allan to this exclusive group hoping that it will help Allan’s business. Sinclair describes the party life of the very rich, who spend vast sums of money on entertainment and new toys. Expensive cars, private trains, dinners attended by liveried servants, clothing costing thousands of dollars are described with attention to the enormous cost of it all. The author describing the alcoholism, marital affairs, malicious gossip, backstabbing, and shallow values of the wealthy of this Society. (Summary by Richard Kilmer)
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Metropolis
- Author credits: Upton Sinclair
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 21
- Listed recording duration: 10:48:28
Catalogue topics
- Historical Fiction
Track guide
- 01 - Chapter 1 — 32:34
- 02 - Chapter 2 — 21:15
- 03 - Chapter 3 — 24:22
- 04 - Chapter 4 — 28:48
- 05 - Chapter 5 — 36:29
- 06 - Chapter 6 — 34:20
- 07 - Chapter 7 — 28:47
- 08 - Chapter 8 — 29:25
- 09 - Chapter 9 — 38:08
- 10 - Chapter 10 — 31:34
- 11 - Chapter 11 — 31:41
- 12 - Chapter 12 — 31:05
- 13 - Chapter 13 — 36:22
- 14 - Chapter 14 — 31:20
- 15 - Chapter 15 — 33:04
- 16 - Chapter 16 — 32:18
- 17 - Chapter 17 — 34:04
- 18 - Chapter 18 — 28:43
- 19 - Chapter 19 — 26:54
- 20 - Chapter 20 — 34:49
- 21 - Chapter 21 — 22:26
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