The Story of an African Farm: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Story of an African Farm, credited to Olive Schreiner, 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 Story of an African Farm, by Olive Schreiner. Read by SallyMc. The novel details the lives of three characters, first as children and then as adults - Waldo, Em and Lyndall - who live on a farm in the Karoo region of South Africa. The story is set in the middle- to late Nineteenth century - the First Boer War is alluded to, but not mentioned by name. The book is semi-autobiographical: in particular, the two principal protagonists (Waldo and Lyndall) display strong similarities to Schreiner's life and philosophy. The book was first published in 1883 in London, under the pseudonym Ralph Iron. It quickly became a best-seller, despite causing some controversy over its frank portrayal of freethought, feminism, premarital sex and pregnancy out of wedlock and transvestitism. (Introduction by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Story of an African Farm
• Author credits: Olive Schreiner
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 28
• Listed recording duration: 10:26:34

Catalogue topics

• adventure
• fiction
• africa

Opening tracks: first 24 of 28

1. 00 - Preface and Glossary — 6:25
2. 01 - Chapter 1, Part 1 — 20:39
3. 02 - Chapter 1, Part 2 — 15:37
4. 03 - Chapter 1, Part 3 — 15:49
5. 04 - Chapter 1, Part 4 — 20:32
6. 05 - Chapter 1, Part 5 — 21:22
7. 06 - Chapter 1, Part 6 — 12:37
8. 07 - Chapter 1, Part 7 — 10:47
9. 08 - Chapter 1, Part 8 — 25:12
10. 09 - Chapter 1, Part 9 — 19:07
11. 10 - Chapter 1, Part 10 — 7:29
12. 11 - Chapter 1, Part 11 — 18:38
13. 12 - Chapter 1, Part 12 — 26:57
14. 13 - Chapter 1, Part 13 — 13:17
15. 14 - Chapter 2, Part 1 — 47:07
16. 15 - Chapter 2, Part 2 — 46:38
17. 16 - Chapter 2, Part 3 — 23:08
18. 17 - Chapter 2, Part 4 — 41:40
19. 18 - Chapter 2, Part 5 — 17:55
20. 19 - Chapter 2, Part 6 — 28:33
21. 20 - Chapter 2, Part 7 — 8:06
22. 21 - Chapter 2, Part 8 — 21:18
23. 22 - Chapter 2, Part 9 — 19:43
24. 23 - Chapter 2, Part 10 — 10:03

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