Wessex Tales: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Wessex Tales, credited to Thomas Hardy, 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 Wessex Tales, by Thomas Hardy. Read by Tadhg Hynes. Wessex Tales is a collection of six short stories written by Hardy in the 1880’s. If you’ve never read Hardy they’ll serve as a good introduction to his writing. Though not as comprehensive as his major works they do contain all the ingredients that make him instantly recognisable. (Introduction by T. Hynes.)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Wessex Tales
• Author credits: Thomas Hardy
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 33
• Listed recording duration: 7:31:51

Catalogue topics

• audibook
• public domain
• short stories
• Hardy

Opening tracks: first 24 of 33

1. 00 - Preface — 3:34
2. 01 - An Imaginative Woman — 51:03
3. 02 - The Three Strangers — 46:41
4. 03 - The Withered Arm - Chapter 1 — 4:50
5. 04 - The Withered Arm - Chapter 2 — 7:28
6. 05 - The Withered Arm - Chapter 3 — 8:06
7. 06 - The Withered Arm - Chapter 4 — 7:27
8. 07 - The Withered Arm - Chapter 5 — 5:30
9. 08 - The Withered Arm - Chapter 6 — 5:30
10. 09 - The Withered Arm - Chapter 7 — 9:50
11. 10 - The Withered Arm - Chapter 8 — 6:07
12. 11 - The Withered Arm - Chapter 9 — 6:24
13. 12 - Fellow-Townsmen - Chapter 1 — 9:35
14. 13 - Fellow-Townsmen - Chapter 2 — 16:14
15. 14 - Fellow-Townsmen - Chapter 3 — 5:38
16. 15 - Fellow-Townsmen - Chapter 4 — 7:40
17. 16 - Fellow-Townsmen - Chapter 5 — 11:22
18. 17 - Fellow-Townsmen - Chapter 6 — 11:45
19. 18 - Fellow-Townsmen - Chapter 7 — 9:07
20. 19 - Fellow-Townsmen - Chapter 8 — 15:52
21. 20 - Fellow-Townsmen - Chapter 9 — 21:34
22. 21 - Interlopers at the Knap - Chapter 1 — 9:48
23. 22 - Interlopers at the Knap - Chapter 2 — 15:40
24. 23 - Interlopers at the Knap - Chapter 3 — 16:29

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