Trilby: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Trilby, credited to George du Maurier, 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 Trilby by George du Maurier. Read by Librivox volunteers. Trilby, published in 1894, fits into the gothic horror genre which was undergoing a revival during the Fin de siècle and is one of the most popular novels of its time, perhaps the second best selling novel of the Fin de siècle period after Bram Stoker's Dracula. The story of the poor artist's model Trilby O'Ferrall, transformed into a diva under the spell of the evil musical genius Svengali, created a sensation. Soap, songs, dances, toothpaste, and Trilby, Florida were all named for the heroine, and a variety of soft felt hat with an indented crown (worn in the London stage production of a dramatization of the novel) came to be called a trilby. The plot inspired Gaston Leroux's 1910 potboiler Phantom of the Opera and the innumerable works derived from it, and introduced the phrase "in the altogether" (meaning "completely unclothed") to the English language. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Trilby
• Author credits: George du Maurier
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 30
• Listed recording duration: 11:12:35

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• horror
• ghost stories

Opening tracks: first 24 of 30

1. 01 - Part First - Part 1 — 27:53
2. 02 - Part First - Part 2 — 28:32
3. 03 - Part First - Part 3 — 22:50
4. 04 - Part First - Part 4 — 16:29
5. 05 - Part Second - Part 1 — 20:05
6. 06 - Part Second - Part 2 — 19:32
7. 07 - Part Second - Part 3 — 18:48
8. 08 - Part Second - Part 4 — 18:02
9. 09 - Part Third - Part 1 — 23:23
10. 10 - Part Third - Part 2 — 22:09
11. 11 - Part Third - Part 3 — 20:56
12. 12 - Part Fourth - Part 1 — 18:48
13. 13 - Part Fourth - Part 2 — 22:53
14. 14 - Part Fourth - Part 3 — 35:09
15. 15 - Part Fifth - Part 1 — 19:17
16. 16 - Part Fifth - Part 2 — 19:10
17. 17 - Part Fifth - Part 3 — 25:15
18. 18 - Part Fifth - Part 4 — 39:23
19. 19 - Part Sixth - Part 1 — 22:19
20. 20 - Part Sixth - Part 2 — 20:53
21. 21 - Part Sixth - Part 3 — 20:01
22. 22 - Part Sixth - Part 4 — 18:16
23. 23 - Part Seventh - Part 1 — 21:11
24. 24 - Part Seventh - Part 2 — 19:35

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