Villette: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Villette, credited to Charlotte Brontë, 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 Villette by Charlotte Brontë. After a tragedy in her family, Lucy Snow leaves her home to become a teacher at a French boarding school. Lucy soon begins to fight against an overwhelming sense of desolation. Meeting a charming doctor and a strict, peculiar schoolmaster changes her life forever– and threatens to break her spirit. (summary by heatherausten)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Villette
• Author credits: Charlotte Brontë
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 42
• Listed recording duration: 20:25:58

Catalogue topics

• Bronte

Opening tracks: first 24 of 42

1. Chapter 1 - Bretton — 18:27
2. Chapter 2 - Paulina — 16:08
3. Chapter 3 - The Playmates — 35:02
4. Chapter 4 - Miss Marchmont — 24:52
5. Chapter 5 - Turning a New Leaf — 10:58
6. Chapter 6 - London — 25:16
7. Chapter 7 - Villette — 24:02
8. Chapter 8 - Madame Beck — 33:12
9. Chapter 9 - Isidore — 27:03
10. Chapter 10 - Dr. John — 17:31
11. Chapter 11 - The Portresse’s Cabinet — 15:11
12. Chapter 12 - The Casket — 26:55
13. Chapter 13 - A Sneeze Out of Season — 28:13
14. Chapter 14 - The Fête — 1:09:04
15. Chapter 15 - The Long Vacation — 31:03
16. Chapter 16 - Auld Lang Syne — 34:29
17. Chapter 17 - La Terrasse — 22:27
18. Chapter 18 - We Quarrel — 18:15
19. Chapter 19 - The Cleopatra — 28:04
20. Chapter 20 - The Concert — 44:46
21. Chapter 21 - Reaction — 42:50
22. Chapter 22 - The Letter — 24:11
23. Chapter 23 - Vashti — 29:37
24. Chapter 24 - M. De Bassompierre — 31:07

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