The Precipice: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Precipice, credited to Elia Wilkinson Peattie, 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 Precipice by Elia Wilkinson Peattie. Read by Mary Schneider. Elia Peattie was an outspoken journalist and social activist who gave her attention to such areas as orphanages, charity hospitals, the Wounded Knee massacre, capital punishment, and the like. The Precipice is partially based on the life of her close friend Katherine Ostrander, a social work pioneer, and tells of the evolution of Kate Barrington after her college years and with it the evolution of society as a whole and women in particular in pre-World War I America. Friendship, romance, betrayal, searchings of the soul, dreams, and shattered hopes -- all the stuff of life -- bring Kate to full realization of her true self. (Introduction by Mary Schneider)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Precipice
• Author credits: Elia Wilkinson Peattie
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 35
• Listed recording duration: 10:54:56

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• society
• women
• romance
• friendship

Opening tracks: first 24 of 35

1. 01 - Chapter I — 17:06
2. 02 - Chapter II — 13:31
3. 03 - Chapter III — 27:51
4. 04 - Chapter IV — 15:54
5. 05 - Chapter V — 21:03
6. 06 - Chapter VI — 23:36
7. 07 - Chapter VII — 25:34
8. 08 - Chapter VIII — 20:51
9. 09 - Chapter IX — 17:24
10. 10 - Chapter X — 14:41
11. 11 - Chapter XI — 16:07
12. 12 - Chapter XII — 14:26
13. 13 - Chapter XIII — 18:20
14. 14 - Chapter XIV — 25:19
15. 15 - Chapter XV — 15:25
16. 16 - Chapter XVI — 24:17
17. 17 - Chapter XVII — 19:18
18. 18 - Chapter XVIII — 15:45
19. 19 - Chapter XIX — 19:19
20. 20 - Chapter XX — 15:30
21. 21 - Chapter XXI — 26:50
22. 22 - Chapter XXII — 18:28
23. 23 - Chapter XXIII — 13:39
24. 24 - Chapter XXIV — 22:06

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