Villette (version 2 Dramatic Reading): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Villette (version 2 Dramatic Reading), 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 (version 2 Dramatic Reading) by Charlotte Brontë. Read in English by Librivox Volunteers. After an unspecified family disaster, protagonist Lucy Snowe travels to the fictional city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school where she is unwillingly pulled into both adventure and romance. Summary by Wikipedia Cast list: Narrator: Mary J Lucy Snowe: Elizabeth Barr Graham/Dr. John: Robert Dixon Monsieur Paul: Herman Roskams Madame Beck: Elizabeth Klett Polly/Paulina: Amanda Friday Mrs. Bretton: Michele Eaton Ginevra Fanshawe: Libby Gohn Mr. Home/Bassompierre: tovarisch Rosine [the portress]: Leanne Mademoiselle St. Pierre [a teacher]: Kristin Gjerløw Isabelle [a student]: Arie Pere Silas: Malone Young Lucy: WoollyBee Thomas [a servant]: ToddHW Georgette [Madame Beck's daughter]: Sarah Alaine Swart Goton [Female Servant]: P. J. Morgan Madame Walravens: Leanne Harriet [Polly's nurse]: Victoria P Miss Marchmont: Lucy Perry Fifine [Madame Beck's daughter]: Kimberly Krause Monsieur Rochemorte [a professor]: Ernst Pattynama Josef Emmanuel: BeniaminoMassimo Warren/London Waiter: ToddHW Frank/de Hamal: bala Mrs. Barrett/Mrs. Sweeney: Diana Majlinger London Waterman/Custom House Man: Arnaldo Machado Steward/Miret (a bookseller): KHand Stewardess/Penitent: Julia Niedermaier Dressmaker/Justine Marie: Sarah Alaine Swart Edited by: Elizabeth Barr

Recording facts

• Recording title: Villette (version 2 Dramatic Reading)
• Author credits: Charlotte Brontë
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 43
• Listed recording duration: 21:19:45

Catalogue topics

• French
• religion
• Gothic
• love
• teacher
• orphan

Opening tracks: first 24 of 43

1. 00 - Dramatis Personae — 2:20
2. 01 - Chapter 1 — 16:33
3. 02 - Chapter 2 — 14:38
4. 03 - Chapter 3 — 36:15
5. 04 - Chapter 4 — 22:26
6. 05 - Chapter 5 — 12:14
7. 06 - Chapter 6 — 29:24
8. 07 - Chapter 7 — 22:33
9. 08 - Chapter 8 — 37:10
10. 09 - Chapter 9 — 26:13
11. 10 - Chapter 10 — 17:22
12. 11 - Chapter 11 — 17:06
13. 12 - Chapter 12 — 27:58
14. 13 - Chapter 13 — 25:50
15. 14 - Chapter 14 — 1:11:23
16. 15 - Chapter 15 — 32:11
17. 16 - Chapter 16 — 35:33
18. 17 - Chapter 17 — 21:53
19. 18 - Chapter 18 — 17:14
20. 19 - Chapter 19 — 30:51
21. 20 - Chapter 20 — 47:15
22. 21 - Chapter 21 — 42:51
23. 22 - Chapter 22 — 22:01
24. 23 - Chapter 23 — 33:12

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