Two on a Tower: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Two on a Tower, credited to Thomas Hardy, 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 Two on a Tower, by Thomas Hardy. Read by Tadhg. The plot concerns two – literally starcrossed – lovers: Swithin St. Cleeve, a very young amateur astronomer, and Viviette Constantine, an unhappily married and abandoned woman 8 or 9 years his senior. Each night Swithin climbs the old tower of the title, in the grounds of the Constantine estate. Lady Constantine, whose husband has been absent some years on an extended hunting and exploring journey to Africa, joins the young man in his stargazing, and supports his astronomical ambitions by buying him equipment, though his dreams of scientific renown are disappointed. Their relationship then deepens and takes several twists and turns.(Summary by Tadhg)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Two on a Tower
• Author credits: Thomas Hardy
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 42
• Listed recording duration: 9:15:25

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• Thomas Hardy
• Two on a Tower

Opening tracks: first 24 of 42

1. Preface — 2:54
2. Chapter 1 — 22:02
3. Chapter 2 — 17:17
4. Chapter 3 — 8:59
5. Chapter 4 — 21:28
6. Chapter 5 — 13:48
7. Chapter 6 — 12:22
8. Chapter 7 — 13:46
9. Chapter 8 — 12:47
10. Chapter 9 — 14:48
11. Chapter 10 — 8:13
12. Chapter 11 — 7:36
13. Chapter 12 — 12:12
14. Chapter 13 — 11:34
15. Chapter 14 — 14:52
16. Chapter 15 — 13:25
17. Chapter 16 — 13:49
18. Chapter 17 — 8:01
19. Chapter 18 — 15:03
20. Chapter 19 — 17:33
21. Chapter 20 — 6:59
22. Chapter 21 — 8:39
23. Chapter 22 — 13:20
24. Chapter 23 — 10:58

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