The Titan: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Titan, credited to Theodore Dreiser, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Titan, by Theodore Dreiser. Read by Richard Kilmer. Cowperwood moves to Chicago with his new wife Aileen. He decides to take over the street-railway system. He bankrupts several opponents with the help of John J. McKenty and other political allies. Meanwhile, Chicago society finds out about his past in Philadelphia and the couple are no longer invited to dinner parties; after a while, the press turns on him too. Cowperwood is unfaithful many times. Aileen finds out about a certain Rita and beats her up. She gives up on him and has an affair with Polk Lynde, a man of privilege; she eventually loses faith in him. Meanwhile, Cowperwood meets young Berenice Fleming; by the end of the novel, he tells her he loves her and she accepts to live with him. However, the ending is bittersweet as Cowperwood has not managed to obtain the fifty-year franchise for his railway schemes that he wanted. This is the second book in the trilogy A Triology Of Desire(Introduction by wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Titan
• Author credits: Theodore Dreiser
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 63
• Listed recording duration: 22:24:01

Catalogue topics

• fiction

Opening tracks: first 24 of 63

1. 01 - The New City — 10:57
2. 02 - A Reconnoiter — 19:09
3. 03 - A Chicago Evening — 15:49
4. 04 - Peter Laughlin & Co. — 14:50
5. 05 - Concerning A Wife And Family — 9:35
6. 06 - The New Queen of the Home — 20:37
7. 07 - Chicago Gas — 17:34
8. 08 - Now This is Fighting — 16:06
9. 09 - In Search of Victory — 30:26
10. 10 - A Test — 20:12
11. 11 - The Fruits of Daring — 18:56
12. 12 - A New Retainer — 25:24
13. 13 - The Die is Cast — 30:57
14. 14 - Undercurrents — 33:40
15. 15 - A New Affection — 16:22
16. 16 - A Fateful Interlude — 24:59
17. 17 - An Overture to Conflict — 10:56
18. 18 - The Clash — 29:36
19. 19 - — 16:15
20. 20 - — 13:37
21. 21 - A Matter of Tunnels — 27:15
22. 22 - Street-raillways at Last — 19:51
23. 23 - The Power of the Press — 34:22
24. 24 - The Coming of Stephanie Platow — 23:22

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