The Princess Casamassima: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Princess Casamassima, credited to Henry James, 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 Princess Casamassima by Henry James. Read in English by Nicholas Clifford Princess Casamassima can be read on several levels: first, as a political and social novel, exploring the anarchistic and revolutionary underground of London in the 1880s; secondly as a psychological study of such a movement on a young man (the protagonist, Hyacinth Robinson) who may or may not be descended from the aristocracy, but whose artistic nature shines out in the midst of the London slums; and thirdly, as an examination of the conundrum whether the world of art and culture is necessarily built on the abject poverty of others. The Princess herself started as the beautiful and intelligent American Christina Light in James’s Roderick Hudson but has now come to London to escape the Neapolitan prince to whom she is unhappily married. Yet she and Robinson are only two of a larger set of characters whose commitment to an imagined revolutionary cause may be sincere or many be questionable. As is usual with Henry James, readers will have to make their own judgements. ( Nicholas Clifford)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Princess Casamassima
• Author credits: Henry James
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 47
• Listed recording duration: 21:34:20

Catalogue topics

• london underworld

Opening tracks: first 24 of 47

1. 01 - Book First Chapter 01 — 28:26
2. 02 - Book First Chapter 02 — 30:50
3. 03 - Book First Chapter 03 — 30:22
4. 04 - Book First Chapter 04 — 28:57
5. 05 - Book First Chapter 05 — 31:15
6. 06 - Book First Chapter 06 — 21:36
7. 07 - Book First Chapter 07 — 27:10
8. 08 - Book First Chapter 08 — 24:18
9. 09 - Book First Chapter 09 — 24:26
10. 10 - Book First Chapter 10 — 22:52
11. 11 - Book First Chapter 11 — 30:29
12. 12 - Book Second Chapter 12 — 31:47
13. 13 - Book Second Chapter 13 — 36:45
14. 14 - Book Second Chapter 14 — 26:44
15. 15 - Book Second Chapter 15 — 42:38
16. 16 - Book Second Chapter 16 — 27:02
17. 17 - Book Second Chapter 17 — 29:10
18. 18 - Book Second Chapter 18 — 14:51
19. 19 - Book Second Chapter 19 — 16:37
20. 20 - Book Second Chapter 20 — 31:03
21. 21 - Book Second Chapter 21 — 42:52
22. 22 - Book Third Chapter 22 — 40:33
23. 23 - Book Third Chapter 23 — 28:11
24. 24 - Book Third Chapter 24 — 30:03

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