The Unclassed: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Unclassed, credited to George Gissing, 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 Unclassed by George Gissing. Read in English by Lynne Thompson; geoffbl; beyondutopia; Sally Ireland; Anusha Iyer; mrnmrz72 The Unclassed tells the story of two friends who are aspiring authors living in the London of the late 19th century. Both of them fall in love. Both believe in social change but do not know how to bring it about. Both are sceptical about the values of their times. Both want respectability more then they would admit. This book, unlike many others of it's time, tells about working women, and includes honest descriptions of the slums of London. - Summary by Stav Nisser.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Unclassed
• Author credits: George Gissing
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 38
• Listed recording duration: 16:09:06

Catalogue topics

• love story
• Victorian novel
• realist fiction
• social novel
• femenist fiction

Opening tracks: first 24 of 38

1. 01 - School — 20:30
2. 02 - Mother and Child — 24:48
3. 03 - Antecedents — 27:16
4. 04 - Christmas in Two Homes — 29:02
5. 05 - Possibilities — 13:26
6. 06 - An Advertisment — 22:45
7. 07 - Between Old and New — 26:41
8. 08 - Academical — 29:37
9. 09 - The Cousins — 21:17
10. 10 - The Way Out — 23:38
11. 11 - By the Wayside — 40:03
12. 12 - Rent Day — 27:57
13. 13 - A Man-Trap — 18:31
14. 14 - Near and Far — 24:33
15. 15 - Up the River — 19:31
16. 16 - Example Without Precept — 21:35
17. 17 - The Missing Years — 1:04:15
18. 18 - The Enderbys — 37:13
19. 19 - In the Meantime — 17:14
20. 20 - A Suggestion — 23:00
21. 21 - Diplomacy — 26:59
22. 22 - Under-Currents — 27:26
23. 23 - The Opportunity — 21:30
24. 24 - Justice — 40:06

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