The Red and the Black, Volume II: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Red and the Black, Volume II by Stendhal: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 45 original MP3 tracks, 12:15:26 running time and a link to listen.
The Red and the Black, Volume II, credited to Stendhal, 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 Red and the Black, Volume II by Stendhal. Translated by Horace B. Samuel. Read in English by meridiculous; madcappe; Chiquito Crasto; Leni; Lynne Thompson; Malone; Nadine Eckert-Boulet; Rapunzelina; rookieblue Stendhal - a German pen-name for a French writer who hated the English. Contemporary to some of the great names of French literature like Balzac and Flaubert, Stendhal is quite often considered a writer that doesn't seem to fit a defined genre. Some say he's a Romantic, others that he's a Modernist and that Le Rouge et Le Noir is the first modern novel. On one point they are all agreed: the novel is a masterpiece that shows a young theology student - Julien Sorel - intelligent, handsome and who is determined to rise above his humble peasant origins. Stendhal presents the reader with a satirical plot that will involve you in passions, intrigues, last-minute reversals and, mostly, the hypocrisy by which society operates. (Summary by sailormoon)
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Red and the Black, Volume II
- Author credits: Stendhal
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 45
- Listed recording duration: 12:15:26
Catalogue topics
- satire
- intrigue
- French literature
- social issues
Opening tracks: first 24 of 45
- 01 - The Pleasures of the Country — 30:21
- 02 - Entry into society — 20:36
- 03 - The First Steps — 8:20
- 04 - The Hotel De La Mole — 37:05
- 05 - Sensibility and a Great Pious Lady — 8:56
- 06 - Pronounciation — 19:50
- 07 - An Attack of Gout — 22:22
- 08 - What is the decoration which confers distinction? — 30:31
- 09 - The Ball — 24:59
- 10 - Queen Marguerite — 20:24
- 11 - A Young Girl's Dominion — 12:23
- 12 - Is he a Danton? — 17:38
- 13 - A Plot — 26:38
- 14 - A Young Girl's Thoughts — 17:00
- 15 - Is it a Plot? — 12:38
- 16 - One o'clock in the morning — 16:06
- 17 - An old Sword — 11:29
- 18 - Cruel Moments — 13:54
- 19 - The Opera Bouffe — 24:21
- 20 - The Japanese Vase — 15:49
- 21 - The Secret Note — 12:35
- 22 - The Discussion — 19:59
- 23 - The Clergy, The Forests, Liberty — 19:40
- 24 - Strasbourg — 15:02
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