Toppleton's Client: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Toppleton's Client, credited to John Kendrick Bangs, 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 Toppleton's Client, by John Kendrick Bangs. Read by Cathy Barratt. A pre-eminent legal firm gets far more than it bargained for when it hires the son of its late senior partner, Hopkins Toppleton, Sr., simply to retain the illustrious family name on the company masthead. Knowing Jr. is a loose cannon, their strategy is to pack him off to the UK to head up a European branch of the firm - a branch they have no intention of sending work. The unwitting Hopkins Toppleton, Jr. is, however, determined to make his mark. (Summary by Cathy Barratt)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Toppleton's Client
• Author credits: John Kendrick Bangs
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 5:03:59

Catalogue topics

• adventure
• humor
• fiction

Track guide

1. 01 - Introducing Mr. Hopkins Toppleton — 13:31
2. 02 - Mr. Hopkins Toppleton Leases an Office — 12:30
3. 03 - Mr. Hopkins Toppleton Encounters a Weary Spirit — 15:52
4. 04 - The Weary Spirit Gives Some Account of Himself — 18:09
5. 05 - Hopkins Becomes Better Acquainted With the Weary Spirit — 19:52
6. 06 - The Spirit Unfolds a Horrid Tale — 18:32
7. 07 - A Chapter of Profit and Loss — 19:10
8. 08 - Further Developments in the Making of a Name — 20:46
9. 09 - The Crowning Act of Infamy — 28:50
10. 10 - The Spirit's Story is Concluded — 20:39
11. 11 - Toppleton Consults the Law and Forms an Opinion — 19:42
12. 12 - Toppleton Makes a Fair Start — 18:44
13. 13 - At Barncastle Hall — 19:18
14. 14 - The Dinner and Its Result — 16:23
15. 15 - Barncastle Confides in Hopkins — 20:59
16. 16 - Mr. Hopkins Toppleton Makes a Discovery — 19:30
17. 17 - Epilogue — 1:42

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