The Mother: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Mother by Pearl S. Buck: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 23 original MP3 tracks, 7:45:27 running time and a link to listen.
The Mother, credited to Pearl S. Buck, 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 Mother by Pearl S. Buck. Read in English by Michele Fry As with Pearl Buck's most famous 1st novel, The Good Earth, this 2nd book also describes peasant life in rural China about 150 years ago--from a woman's close perspective. Life was gruelingly hard. The people were illiterate, superstitious, uneducated, provincial, the culture entirely male dominated. And yet, this book captures the dignity, pleasures, hopes, fears and dreams shared among villagers despite their extreme poverty, and the influence exerted by women over their families. Themes of love, lust, greed, gambling, chauvinism, narcissism, crime, greed, injustice, tyranny, revolution, abortion, etc., are all masterfully woven into the narrative of one unnamed mother's devotion, without a moment of preaching, in this poignantly beautiful masterpiece. (Summary by Michele Fry, BC and Soloist)
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Mother
- Author credits: Pearl S. Buck
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 23
- Listed recording duration: 7:45:27
Catalogue topics
- marriage
- china
- gambling
- peasantry
- motherhood
- childbearing
Track guide
- 01 - Chapter 1 — 26:59
- 02 - Chapter 2 — 11:16
- 03 - Chapter 3 — 8:53
- 04 - Chapter 4, Part 1 — 24:04
- 05 - Chapter 4, Part 2 — 17:18
- 06 - Chapter 5, Part 1 — 26:03
- 07 - Chapter 5, Part 2 — 22:51
- 08 - Chapter 6 — 14:28
- 09 - Chapter 7 — 9:05
- 10 - Chapter 8 — 13:53
- 11 - Chapter 9 — 26:16
- 12 - Chapter 10 — 12:45
- 13 - Chapter 11, Part 1 — 26:00
- 14 - Chapter 11, Part 2 — 21:08
- 15 - Chapter 12 — 17:43
- 16 - Chapter 13 — 14:16
- 17 - Chapter 14 — 29:18
- 18 - Chapter 15 — 28:17
- 19 - Chapter 16 — 31:53
- 20 - Chapter 17 — 15:47
- 21 - Chapter 18 — 9:53
- 22 - Chapter 19, Part 1 — 30:29
- 23 - Chapter 19, Part 2 — 26:52
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