The Shaving of Shagpat: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Shaving of Shagpat, credited to George Meredith, 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 Shaving of Shagpat, by George Meredith. Read by volunteer readers. The novel is a humorous oriental romance and allegory written in the style of the Arabian Nights. Like its model, it includes a number of stories within the story, along with poetic asides. (Summary by Wikipedia.) “The variety of scenes and images, the untiring evolution of plot, the kaleidoscopic shifting of harmonious colours, all these seem of the very essence of Arabia, and to coil directly from some bottle of a genie. Ah! what a bottle!” -Edmund Gosse in Gossip in a Library

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Shaving of Shagpat
• Author credits: George Meredith
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 31
• Listed recording duration: 9:04:22

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• fantasy
• fairy tales
• epic
• romance
• allegory

Opening tracks: first 24 of 31

1. 01 - Ch. 01, Part 1 — 21:11
2. 02 - Ch. 01, Part 2 — 18:25
3. 03 - Ch. 02, Part 1 — 31:40
4. 04 - Ch. 02, Part 2 — 33:11
5. 05 - Ch. 02, Part 3 — 36:04
6. 06 - Ch. 02, Part 4 — 36:14
7. 07 - Ch. 03 — 18:10
8. 08 - Ch. 04 — 13:40
9. 09 - Ch. 05 — 14:30
10. 10 - Ch. 06 — 8:55
11. 11 - Ch. 07 — 11:19
12. 12 - Ch. 08 — 12:30
13. 13 - Ch. 09 — 11:33
14. 14 - Ch. 10 — 13:16
15. 15 - Ch. 11, Part 1 — 15:32
16. 16 - Ch.11, Part 2 — 18:27
17. 17 - Ch. 12, Part 1 — 18:21
18. 18 - Ch. 12, Part 2 — 17:55
19. 19 - Ch. 13 — 14:47
20. 20 - Ch. 14 — 19:20
21. 21 - Ch. 15 — 7:34
22. 22 - Ch. 16 — 13:44
23. 23 - Ch. 17 — 9:16
24. 24 - Ch. 18 — 9:13

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