The Pit: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Pit, credited to Frank Norris, 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 reading of The Pit by Frank Norris. Read in English by Delmar H Dolbier. The Trilogy of The Epic of the Wheat includes the following novels: THE OCTOPUS, a Story of California. THE PIT, a Story of Chicago. THE WOLF, a Story of Europe. These novels, while forming a series, will be in no way connected with each other save only in their relation to (1) the production, (2) the distribution, (3) the consumption of American wheat. When complete, they will form the story of a crop of wheat from the time of its sowing as seed in California to the time of its consumption as bread in a village of Western Europe. The first novel, "The Octopus," deals with the war between the wheat grower and the Railroad Trust; the second, "The Pit," is the fictitious narrative of a "deal" in the Chicago wheat pit; while the third, "The Wolf," will probably have for its pivotal episode the relieving of a famine in an Old World community. - Summary by Frank Norris

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Pit
• Author credits: Frank Norris
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 38
• Listed recording duration: 13:54:40

Catalogue topics

• Chicago
• business
• capitalism
• wheat

Opening tracks: first 24 of 38

1. 01 - Chapter I, part 1 — 26:38
2. 02 - Chapter I, part 2 — 24:58
3. 03 - Chapter I, part 3 — 24:34
4. 04 - Chapter II, part 1 — 22:47
5. 05 - Chapter II, part 2 — 23:22
6. 06 - Chapter II, part 3 — 22:58
7. 07 - Chapter III, part 1 — 24:16
8. 08 - Chapter III, part 2 — 18:34
9. 09 - Chapter III, part 3 — 16:51
10. 10 - Chapter IV, part 1 — 27:05
11. 11 - Chapter IV, part 2 — 24:25
12. 12 - Chapter IV, part 3 — 26:16
13. 13 - Chapter V, part 1 — 14:38
14. 14 - Chapter V, part 2 — 21:03
15. 15 - Chapter V, part 3 — 19:03
16. 16 - Chapter V, part 4 — 28:35
17. 17 - Chapter VI, part 1 — 19:14
18. 18 - Chapter VI, part 2 — 24:06
19. 19 - Chapter VI, part 3 — 16:56
20. 20 - Chapter VI, part 4 — 22:54
21. 21 - Chapter VII, part 1 — 24:01
22. 22 - Chapter VII, part 2 — 19:28
23. 23 - Chapter VII, part 3 — 14:18
24. 24 - Chapter VII, part 4 — 18:49

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