The Red Room: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Red Room, credited to August Strindberg, 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 Room, by August Strindberg, translated by Ellie Schleussner. Read by William Peck. A young idealistic civil servant, Arvid Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy to become a journalist and author. As he explores various social activities — politics, publishing, theatre, philanthropy, and business — he finds more hypocrisy and corruption than he thought possible. He takes refuge with a group of "bohemians", who meet in a red dining room in Berns Salonger to discuss these matters. (Introduction adopted from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Red Room
• Author credits: August Strindberg
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 30
• Listed recording duration: 10:04:42

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• satire
• Stockholm society
• bureaucracy
• hypocrisy
• corruption

Opening tracks: first 24 of 30

1. 01 - A Bird's-Eye View of Stockholm — 29:35
2. 02 - Between Brothers — 18:05
3. 03 - The Artists' Colony — 26:45
4. 04 - Master and Dogs — 41:06
5. 05 - At the Publisher's — 22:00
6. 06 - The Red Room — 31:16
7. 07 - The Imitation of Christ — 13:51
8. 08 - Poor Mother Country — 24:26
9. 09 - Bills of Exchange — 11:02
10. 10 - The Newspaer Syndicate 'Grey Bonnet' — 23:30
11. 11 - Happy People — 22:08
12. 12 - Marine Insurance Society 'Triton' — 20:29
13. 13 - Divine Ordinance — 19:44
14. 14 - Absinth — 24:16
15. 15 - The Theatrical Company 'Phoenix' — 23:36
16. 16 - In the White Mountains — 26:41
17. 17 - Natura.... — 5:41
18. 18 - Nihilism — 20:16
19. 19 - From Churchyard to Public-House — 23:45
20. 20 - On the Altar — 8:22
21. 21 - A Soul Overboard — 11:08
22. 22 - Hard Times — 12:11
23. 23 - Audiences — 10:47
24. 24 - On Sweden — 34:01

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