Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh, credited to Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, 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 Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Read in English by Lynne T Maud Ruthyn, the young, naive heroine, has a governess who is an enigmatic older woman, a liar, bully, and spy, who takes a dark secret with her when she leaves. Maud is then orphaned and moves in with her Uncle Silas, her father's mysterious brother and a man with a scandalous-even murderous-past. She is horrified to find her former governess appears in her life again, in this Gothic Victorian psychological thriller, with a touch of the occult - Summary by Lynne Thompson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh
• Author credits: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 66
• Listed recording duration: 17:56:55

Catalogue topics

• spy
• murder
• governess
• castle
• psychological thriller
• liar

Opening tracks: first 24 of 66

1. 01 - Austin Ruthyn, of Knowl, and his Daughter — 17:05
2. 02 - Uncle Silas — 11:00
3. 03 - A New Face — 12:12
4. 04 - Madame de la Rougierre — 9:10
5. 05 - Sights and Noises — 11:24
6. 06 - A Walk in the Wood — 13:19
7. 07 - Church Scarsdale — 12:56
8. 08 - The Smoker — 11:42
9. 09 - Monica Knollys — 12:53
10. 10 - Lady Knollys Removes a Coverlet — 12:17
11. 11 - Lady Knollys Sees the Features — 12:45
12. 12 - A Curious Conversation — 11:53
13. 13 - Before and After Breakfast — 13:33
14. 14 - Angry Words — 16:43
15. 15 - A Warning — 16:54
16. 16 - Dr. Bryerly Looks In — 16:08
17. 17 - An Adventure — 18:24
18. 18 - A Midnight Visitor — 18:52
19. 19 - Au Revoir — 15:44
20. 20 - Austin Ruthyn Sets Out On His Journey — 15:38
21. 21 - Arrivals — 17:46
22. 22 - Somebody in the Room with the Coffin — 14:52
23. 23 - I Talk with Doctor Bryerly — 16:01
24. 24 - The Opening of the Will — 21:16

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