The Ordeal of Richard Feverel: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, credited to George Meredith, 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 Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith. Read in English by Jim Locke; Rita Boutros; jenno; ABC1 After his wife's desertion, Sir Austin wants to bring up his son according to a strict educational system governing every aspect of his life. However Richard has to make his own mistakes, fall in love, and generally live his own life. This book tells about the clashes between Richard's wish to govern his own life to his father's constant interference. This book was very influential. The leading libraries of the day considered it too frank and sexually explicit and refused to buy it. Later authors including E. M. Forster, Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf admired and respected it. - Summary by Stav Nisser and Wikipedia

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
• Author credits: George Meredith
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 45
• Listed recording duration: 18:42:15

Catalogue topics

• education
• love story
• Victorian novel
• social novel

Opening tracks: first 24 of 45

1. 01. The Inmates of Raynham Abbey — 19:08
2. 02. Showing How the Fates Selected the Fourteenth Birthday to Try the Strength of the System — 19:42
3. 03. The Magian Conflict — 10:04
4. 04. Arson — 23:47
5. 05. Adrian Plies His Hook — 10:56
6. 06. Juvenile Stratagems — 17:47
7. 07. Daphne’s Bower — 12:36
8. 08. The Bitter Cup — 18:53
9. 09. A Fine Distinction — 13:38
10. 10. Richard Passes Through His Preliminary Ordeal, and is the Occasion of an Aphorism — 16:51
11. 11. In which the Last Act of the Bakewell Comedy is Closed in a Letter — 13:36
12. 12. The Blossoming Season — 29:54
13. 13. The Magnetic Age — 22:17
14. 14. An Attraction — 15:18
15. 15. Ferdinand and Miranda — 23:16
16. 16. Unmasking of Master Ripton Thompson — 24:26
17. 17. Good Wine and Good Blood — 14:48
18. 18. The System Encounters the Wild Oats Special Plea — 10:08
19. 19. A Diversion Played on a Penny-Whistle — 9:42
20. 20. Celebrates the Time-Honoured Treatment of a Dragon by the Hero — 43:28
21. 21. Richard is Summoned to Town to Hear a Sermon — 21:13
22. 22. Indicates the Approaches of Fever — 25:20
23. 23. Crisis in the Apple-Disease — 31:29
24. 24. Of the Spring Primrose and the Autumnal — 13:41

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