The Real Thing: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Real Thing, 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 The Real Thing, by Henry James. Read by Nicholas Clifford The Real Thing is, on one level, a somewhat ironic tale of an artist and two rather particular models. Yet it also raises questions about the relationship between the notion of reality in our humdrum world, and the means that an artist must use in trying to achieve, or reflect, that reality. Though the protagonist is an artist and illustrator of books, not a writer, it's not hard to imagine that James has himself, and other writers, in mind.(summary by Nicholas Clifford)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Real Thing
• Author credits: Henry James
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 4
• Listed recording duration: 1:04:39

Catalogue topics

• American Fiction

Track guide

1. 1 - Chapter 1 — 13:45
2. 2 - Chapter 2 — 13:28
3. 3 - Chapter 3 — 16:13
4. 4 - Chapter 4 — 21:14

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Source and rights

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