The Small House at Allington: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Small House at Allington, credited to Anthony Trollope, 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 Small House at Allington, by Anthony Trollope. Fifth novel in the Barsetshire series, The Small House at Allington is largely focused on the Small House's inhabitants, Mrs. Dale and her two marriageable daughters, Lily and Bell. The two girls, of course, have suitors: their cousin, Bernard Dale, his friend Adolphus Crosbie, and the local boy, Johnny Eames, whose career in London is to mark him as far more than the "hobbledehoy" that he has earlier been considered. Crosbie is a social climber, and his connection with the dysfunctional de Courcys of Barsetshire give the author a chance for a splendid portrayal of an aristocratic family in decline. As with many of AT's novels, there are subplots as well, and many pictures of rural life standing in contrast to that of London. Some critics have seen in the portrayal of Johnny Eames something of an autobiographical exercise on Trollope's part.(Summary by Nicholas Clifford)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Small House at Allington
• Author credits: Anthony Trollope
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 60
• Listed recording duration: 25:15:01

Catalogue topics

• Fiction,England
• Barcester

Opening tracks: first 24 of 60

1. 01 - The Squire of Allington — 21:54
2. 02 - The Two Pearls of Allington — 29:02
3. 03 - The Widow Dale of Allington — 25:01
4. 04 - Mrs Roper's Boarding-House — 23:48
5. 05 - About L. D — 18:17
6. 06 - Beautiful Days — 30:32
7. 07 - The Beginning of Troubles — 29:39
8. 08 - It Cannot Be — 18:54
9. 09 - Mrs Dale's Little Party — 34:36
10. 10 - Mrs Lupex and Amelia Roper — 20:09
11. 11 - Social Life — 16:49
12. 12 - Lilian Dale Becomes a Butterfly — 38:10
13. 13 - A Visit to Guestwick — 24:47
14. 14 - John Eames Takes a Walk — 16:32
15. 15 - The Last Day — 27:53
16. 16 - Mr Crosbie Meets an Old Clergyman on His Way to Courcy Castle — 14:43
17. 17 - Courcy Castle — 36:37
18. 18 - Lily Dale's First Love-Letter — 21:10
19. 19 - The Squire Makes a Visit to the Small House — 22:21
20. 20 - Dr Crofts — 20:04
21. 21 - John Eames Encounters Two Adventures, and Displays Great Courage in Both — 32:08
22. 22 - Lord De Guest at Home — 21:05
23. 23 - Mr Plantagenet Palliser — 45:02
24. 24 - A Mother-in-Law and a Father-in-Law — 13:43

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