The Third Person: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Third Person, credited to Henry James, 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 Third Person by Henry James. Read in English by Anthony Orr The Third Person is an amusing spoof on spooking. The 'ghostly man about the house' in whom two increasingly competitive maiden ladies come to take a proprietary interest is as unlikely to inspire terror as the wraith in one of James's earliest tales. The anticlimactic crisis may need a footnote for younger readers: a Tauchnitz was an unauthorized continental paperback edition of a british or american book which, purely for copyright reasons, was not supposed to be brought back to England. To think of this as smuggling certainly placed, for James's contemporaries, the crimes of the ghostly third person in a hilarious perspective. (Summary by Anthony Orr)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Third Person
• Author credits: Henry James
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 5
• Listed recording duration: 1:02:38

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter 1 — 14:51
2. 02 - Chapter 2 — 12:11
3. 03 - Chapter 3 — 14:02
4. 04 - Chapter 4 — 12:47
5. 05 - Chapter 5 — 8:47

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