The Tree of Heaven: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Tree of Heaven, credited to May Sinclair, 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 Tree of Heaven by May Sinclair. Read in English by Expatriate One of the most heart-breaking of all World War I novels, this family epic was written in the midst of the War itself, and shows the intense emotion generated in ordinary lives by that tragedy. May Sinclair astonishingly weaves multiple themes into her narrative, seamlessly drawing from the great movements of her day: suffrage, sexual liberation, artistic revolt, war, and pacifism. Her most powerful metaphor throughout the novel is that of the Vortex: the dangerously irresistible force of human masses, how to resist it and (much more difficult) how to participate in it without losing one’s individual autonomy. - Summary by Expatriate

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Tree of Heaven
• Author credits: May Sinclair
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 10:03:44

Catalogue topics

• World War I
• women's suffrage
• feminism
• women's literature
• may sinclair

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 01 - Part I (Peace): Chapter 01 — 30:51
2. 02 - Part I (Peace): Chapter 02 — 13:03
3. 03 - Part I (Peace): Chapter 03 — 13:07
4. 04 - Part I (Peace): Chapter 04 — 10:41
5. 05 - Part I (Peace): Chapter 05 — 14:22
6. 06 - Part I (Peace): Chapter 06 — 8:11
7. 07 - Part I (Peace): Chapter 07 — 17:27
8. 08 - Part I (Peace): Chapter 08 — 11:45
9. 09 - Part I (Peace): Chapter 09 — 15:23
10. 10 - Part I (Peace): Chapter 10 — 18:06
11. 11 - Part II (The Vortex): Chapter 11 — 37:15
12. 12 - Part II (The Vortex): Chapter 12 — 27:59
13. 13 - Part II (The Vortex): Chapter 13 — 33:47
14. 14 - Part II (The Vortex): Chapter 14 — 25:10
15. 15 - Part II (The Vortex): Chapter 15 — 23:14
16. 16 - Part II (The Vortex): Chapter 16 — 35:21
17. 17 - Part II (The Vortex): Chapter 17 — 25:53
18. 18 - Part III (Victory): Chapter 18 — 41:19
19. 19 - Part III (Victory): Chapter 19 — 26:22
20. 20 - Part III (Victory): Chapter 20 — 38:14
21. 21 - Part III (Victory): Chapter 21 — 25:46
22. 22 - Part III (Victory): Chapter 22 — 15:45
23. 23 - Part III (Victory): Chapter 23 — 36:15
24. 24 - Part III (Victory): Chapter 24 — 43:41

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