The Wings of the Dove: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Wings of the Dove, 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 Wings of the Dove by Henry James. Read by LibriVox Volunteers. "The Wings of the Dove," published in 1902, represents to my memory a very old--if I shouldn't perhaps rather say a very young--motive; I can scarce remember the time when the situation on which this long-drawn fiction mainly rests was not vividly present to me. The idea, reduced to its essence, is that of a young person conscious of a great capacity for life, but early stricken and doomed, condemned to die under short respite, while also enamoured of the world; aware moreover of the condemnation and passionately desiring to "put in" before extinction as many of the finer vibrations as possible, and so achieve, however briefly and brokenly, the sense of having lived. (summary taken from the Preface by Henry James)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Wings of the Dove
• Author credits: Henry James
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 39
• Listed recording duration: 20:11:02

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• English literature
• literary realism

Opening tracks: first 24 of 39

1. 00 - Preface — 50:27
2. 01 - Book First, Chapter 1 — 35:04
3. 02 - Book First, Chapter 2 — 30:21
4. 03 - Book Second, Chapter 1 — 48:44
5. 04 - Book Second, Chapter 2 — 44:35
6. 05 - Book Third, Chapter 1 — 44:41
7. 06 - Book Third, Chapter 2 — 27:46
8. 07 - Book Fourth, Chapter 1 — 33:41
9. 08 - Book Fourth, Chapter 2 — 29:02
10. 09 - Book Fourth, Chapter 3 — 37:13
11. 10 - Book Fifth, Chapter 1 — 20:40
12. 11 - Book Fifth, Chapter 2 — 24:49
13. 12 - Book Fifth, Chapter 3 — 33:09
14. 13 - Book Fifth, Chapter 4 — 29:27
15. 14 - Book Fifth, Chapter 5 — 25:11
16. 15 - Book Fifth, Chapter 6 — 27:09
17. 16 - Book Fifth, Chapter 7 — 32:18
18. 17 - Book Sixth, Chapter 1 — 21:40
19. 18 - Book Sixth, Chapter 2 — 24:33
20. 19 - Book Sixth, Chapter 3 — 28:03
21. 20 - Book Sixth, Chapter 4 — 32:37
22. 21 - Book Sixth, Chapter 5 — 51:02
23. 22 - Book Seventh, Chapter 1 — 40:43
24. 23 - Book Seventh, Chapter 2 — 20:43

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