The Valley of Decision: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Valley of Decision, credited to Edith Wharton, 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 Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton. Read in English by Robert Keiper Odo Valsecca, a promising nobleman, inherits a dukedom at a young age and, over the course of his young life, must quickly learn the politics of royalty as he deals with other nobles, the church, the free-thinking movement, and, of course, his subjects, the peasants. Will he be able to rise to power in time, or will he quickly buckle under the pressures of the Italian court during the seventeenth century? Published in 1902, The Valley of Decision is Edith Wharton's first full length novel. - Summary by Mary Kay

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Valley of Decision
• Author credits: Edith Wharton
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 44
• Listed recording duration: 16:51:39

Catalogue topics

• religion
• relationships
• romance
• church
• government
• youth
• Italy
• atheism

Opening tracks: first 24 of 44

1. 00 - Dedication. — 0:45
2. 01 - Book I. The Old Order. Section 1.1 — 17:43
3. 02 - Book I. The Old Order. Section 1.2 — 18:00
4. 03 - Book I. The Old Order. Section 1.3 — 13:57
5. 04 - Book I. The Old Order. Section 1.4 — 20:51
6. 05 - Book I. The Old Order. Section 1.5 — 17:04
7. 06 - Book I. The Old Order. Section 1.6 — 24:39
8. 07 - Book I. The Old Order. Section 1.7 — 18:41
9. 08 - Book I. The Old Order. Section 1.8 — 28:18
10. 09 - Book I. The Old Order. Section 1.9 — 17:09
11. 10 - Book II. The New Light. Section 2.1 — 17:51
12. 11 - Book II. The New Light. Section 2.2 — 12:26
13. 12 - Book II. The New Light. Section 2.3 — 18:27
14. 13 - Book II. The New Light. Section 2.4 — 29:45
15. 14 - Book II. The New Light. Section 2.5 — 20:11
16. 15 - Book II. The New Light. Section 2.6 — 20:08
17. 16 - Book II. The New Light. Section 2.7 — 22:03
18. 17 - Book II. The New Light. Section 2.8 — 6:34
19. 18 - Book II. The New Light. Mirandolina's Story — 15:59
20. 19 - Book II. The New Light. Section 2.9 — 31:38
21. 20 - Book II. The New Light. Section 2.10 — 26:04
22. 21 - Book II. The New Light. Section 2.11 — 28:22
23. 22 - Book II. The New Light. Section 2.12 — 23:02
24. 23 - Book II. The New Light. Section 2.13 — 22:45

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