The Sturdy Oak: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Sturdy Oak, credited to Various, 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 Sturdy Oak: A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors, read by volunteer readers. Authors: Mary Hunter Austin, 1868-1934; Marjorie Benton Cooke, 1876-1920; Dorothy Canfield Fisher, 1879-1958; Fannie Hurst, 1889-1968; Samuel Merwin, 1874-1936; Alice Duer Miller, 1874-1942; Ethel Watts Mumford, 1878-1940; Kathleen Thompson Norris, 1880-1966; Anne O'Hagan, 1869-1934; Leroy Scott, 1875-1929; Mary Heaton Vorse, 1874-1966; Henry Kitchell Webster, 1875-1932; William Allen White, 1868-1944; Harry Leon Wilson, 1867-1939 and editor: Elizabeth Garver Jordan, 1867-1947. At a certain committee meeting held in the spring of 1916, it was agreed that fourteen leading American authors, known to be extremely generous as well as gifted, should be asked to write a composite novel.... Third, to have the novel finished and published serially during the autumn Campaign of 1917. The carrying out of these requirements has not been the childish diversion it may have seemed. Splendid team work, however, has made success possible. Every author represented, every worker on the team, has gratuitously contributed his or her services; and every dollar realized by the serial and book publication of "The Sturdy Oak" will be devoted to the Suffrage Cause. But the novel itself is first of all a very human story of American life today. It neither unduly nor unfairly emphasizes the question of equal suffrage, and it should appeal to all lovers of good fiction. (Summary from the preface)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Sturdy Oak
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 15
• Listed recording duration: 6:10:51

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• suffrage
• elections
• politics
• intrigue
• corruption
• romance
• women

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface & Principal Characters — 5:12
2. 01 - Chapter 1 by Samuel Merwin — 27:42
3. 02 - Chapter 2 by Harry Leon Wilson — 27:48
4. 03 - Chapter 3 by Fannie Hurst — 18:38
5. 04 - Chapter 4 by Dorothy Canfield — 23:48
6. 05 - Chapter 5 by Kathleen Norris — 22:08
7. 06 - Chapter 6 by Henry Kitchell Webster — 30:58
8. 07 - Chapter 7 by Anne O'Hagan — 24:22
9. 08 - Chapter 8 by Mary Heaton Vorse — 17:32
10. 09 - Chapter 9 by Alice Duer Miller — 18:46
11. 10 - Chapter 10 by Ethel Watts Mumford — 34:17
12. 11 - Chapter 11 by Marjorie Benton Cook — 26:52
13. 12 - Chapter 12 by William Allen White — 26:09
14. 13 - Chapter 13 by Mary Austin — 28:22
15. 14 - Chapter 14 by Leroy Scott — 38:25

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