Vixen: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Vixen, credited to Mary Elizabeth Braddon, 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 Vixen, by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837-1915), read by LibriVox volunteers. This is an exquisite and heartbreaking love story. Violet Tempest and Roderick Vawdrey, otherwise known to each other as Vixen and Rorie, are childhood sweethearts. However, Rorie's family wants him to marry elsewhere. You may think it is the old story all over again, but nothing in this novel is what it seems. It is far too realistic for that. Many books talk about falling in love. This book starts after that stage, and speaks about the harder stage of a relationship: loving earnestly but understanding that love - even in the truest and purest sense - is not everything in life. There are duties to fulfil, and they might have nothing to do with love. Family life plays a large role in this novel, and it is not always warm and good. Many of the characters are strong and complicated. The novel has some feminist ideas, but they have boundaries, and are presented side by side with the conventional ideas of the times. But the signs of change are there... loud and clear. (Summary by Stav Nisser)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Vixen
• Author credits: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 47
• Listed recording duration: 18:38:16

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• novel
• victorian
• realism
• feminist
• love story
• friendship
• family

Opening tracks: first 24 of 47

1. 01 - Volume 1, Chapter 1: A Pretty Horsebreaker — 41:09
2. 02 - Volume 1, Chapter 2: Lady Jane Vawdrey — 23:06
3. 03 - Volume 1, Chapter 3: I Want a Little Serious Talk with You — 14:33
4. 04 - Volume 1, Chapter 4: Rorie Comes of Age — 40:12
5. 05 - Volume 1, Chapter 5: Rorie Makes a Speech — 14:12
6. 06 - Volume 1, Chapter 6: How She Took the News — 13:45
7. 07 - Volume 1, Chapter 7: Rorie Has Plans of His Own — 11:15
8. 08 - Volume 1, Chapter 8: Glas ist der Erde Stolz und Glück — 20:34
9. 09 - Volume 1, Chapter 9: A House of Mourning — 17:39
10. 10 - Volume 1, Chapter 10: Captain Winstanley — 16:32
11. 11 - Volume 1, Chapter 11: It Shall Be Measure for Measure — 16:02
12. 12 - Volume 1, Chapter 12: I Have no Wrong, where I Can Claim no Right — 40:26
13. 13 - Volume 1, Chapter 13: He Belongs to the Tame-Cat Species — 24:06
14. 14 - Volume 1, Chapter 14: He was Worthy to be Loved a Lifetime — 16:07
15. 15 - Volume 1, Chapter 15: Lady Southminster's Ball — 22:44
16. 16 - Volume 1, Chapter 16: Rorie Asks a Question — 21:12
17. 17 - Volume 1, Chapter 17: Where the Red King was Slain — 36:10
18. 18 - Volume 2, Chapter 1: Shall I tell you the Secret? — 20:47
19. 19 - Volume 2, Chapter 2: Wedding Garments — 32:32
20. 20 - Volume 2, Chapter 3: I Shall Look like the Wicked Fairy — 27:30
21. 21 - Volume 2, Chapter 4: The Vow is Vowed — 11:32
22. 22 - Volume 2, Chapter 5: War to the Knife — 18:38
23. 23 - Volume 2, Chapter 6: At the Kennels — 21:33
24. 24 - Volume 2, Chapter 7: A Bad Begining — 20:50

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