The Woman in White: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Woman in White, credited to Wilkie Collins, 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 Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. Read by LibriVox volunteers. The Woman in White is an epistolary novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, serialized in 1859-1860, and first published in book form in 1860. It is considered to be to the first mystery novel, and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest) in the genre of ’sensation novels’…. The Woman in White is also an early example of a particular type of Collins narrative in which several characters in turn take up the telling of the story. This creates a complex web in which readers are unsure which narrator can, and cannot, be trusted. Collins used this technique in his other novels, including The Moonstone. This technique was copied by other novelists, including Bram Stoker, author of Dracula (1897), although by the end of the 19th century the technique was considered “old-fashioned”. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Woman in White
• Author credits: Wilkie Collins
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 38
• Listed recording duration: 25:34:37

Catalogue topics

• epistolary
• mystery

Opening tracks: first 24 of 38

1. 01 - The First Epoch - Walter Hartright: Introduction - IV — 51:48
2. 02 - The First Epoch - Walter Hartright: V - VII — 39:56
3. 03 - The First Epoch - Walter Hartright: VIII - IX — 50:41
4. 04 - The First Epoch - Walter Hartright: X - XII — 58:40
5. 05 - The First Epoch - Walter Hartright: XIII — 34:09
6. 06 - The First Epoch - Walter Hartright: XIV - XV — 42:50
7. 07 - The First Epoch - Vincent Gilmore: I - II — 53:47
8. 08 - The First Epoch - Vincent Gilmore: III - IV — 41:17
9. 09 - The First Epoch - Marian Halcombe: I — 37:01
10. 10 - The First Epoch - Marian Halcombe: II — 38:08
11. 11 - The Second Epoch - Marian Halcombe: I — 35:13
12. 12 - The Second Epoch - Marian Halcombe: II — 43:34
13. 13 - The Second Epoch - Marian Halcombe: III — 43:13
14. 14 - The Second Epoch - Marian Halcombe: IV — 34:02
15. 15 - The Second Epoch - Marian Halcombe: V — 29:18
16. 16 - The Second Epoch - Marian Halcombe: VI — 1:01:08
17. 17 - The Second Epoch - Marian Halcombe: VII — 39:18
18. 18 - The Second Epoch - Marian Halcombe: VIII — 34:03
19. 19 - The Second Epoch - Marian Halcombe: IX — 48:08
20. 20 - The Second Epoch - Marian Halcombe and Count Fosco: X — 10:24
21. 21 - The Second Epoch - Frederick Fairlie — 1:09:55
22. 22 - The Second Epoch - Eliza Michelson: I — 40:49
23. 23 - The Second Epoch - Eliza Michelson: II — 49:27
24. 24 - The Second Epoch - The Story Continued in Several Narratives — 29:33

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