Vera: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Vera, credited to Elizabeth von Arnim, 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 Vera by Elizabeth von Arnim. Read by Greg W. Vera (1921) by Elizabeth von Arnim is a black comedy based on her disastrous second marriage to Earl Russell: a mordant analysis of the romantic delusions through which wives acquiesce in husbands' tyrannies. In outline the story of this utterly unromantic novel anticipates DuMaurier's Rebecca. Naive Lucy Entwhistle is swept into marriage by widower, Everard Wemyss. His mansion "The Willows" is pervaded by the spectre of his dead wife Vera, with whom Lucy becomes obsessed. ... Here the servants are partisan for both wives, and lose no opportunity to disrupt Everard's unctuous, oppressive household routines. An extraordinarily black vision of marriage, also continuously funny, the novel's power lies in the wit and economy of the usually prolix Von Arnim.(Introduction by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Vera
• Author credits: Elizabeth von Arnim
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 32
• Listed recording duration: 8:33:48

Catalogue topics

• llibrivox
• fiction
• marriage
• black comedy

Opening tracks: first 24 of 32

1. 01 - Chapter I — 15:32
2. 02 - Chapter II — 14:25
3. 03 - Chapter 3 — 11:50
4. 04 - Chapter 4 — 24:00
5. 05 - Chapter V — 19:20
6. 06 - Chapter VI — 6:53
7. 07 - Chapter VII — 16:04
8. 08 - Chapter VIII — 13:52
9. 09 - Chapter IX — 15:52
10. 10 - Chapter X — 12:31
11. 11 - Chapter XI — 28:53
12. 12 - Chapter XII — 20:51
13. 13 - Chapter XIII — 6:52
14. 14 - Chapter XIV — 19:22
15. 15 - Chapter XV — 11:43
16. 16 - Chapter XVI — 22:09
17. 17 - Chapter XVII — 22:15
18. 18 - Chapter XVIII — 12:56
19. 19 - Chapter XIX — 11:21
20. 20 - Chapter XX — 19:38
21. 21 - Chapter XXI — 13:13
22. 22 - Chapter XXII — 14:34
23. 23 - Chapter XXIII — 14:52
24. 24 - Chapter XXIV — 15:11

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