Why Marry?: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Why Marry?, credited to Jesse Lynch Williams, 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 dramatic recording of Why Marry? by Jesse Lynch Williams. Why Marry? is a comedy, which "tells the truth about marriage". We find a family in the throes of proving the morality of marriage to a New Age Woman. Can the family defend marriage to this self-supporting girl? Will she be convinced that marriage is the ultimate sacredness of a relationship or will she hold to her perception that marriage is the basis of separating two lovers. "Why Marry?" won the first Pulitzer Prize for Drama. (Summary by Linette Geisel) Cast: Narrator- Elizabeth Klett Jesse Lynch Williams - Elizabeth Klett A most estimable lady - Ezwa Bachelor's niece - Diana Majlinger JEAN, the host's younger sister, who has been brought up to be married and nothing else - Arielle Lipshaw REX, an unmarried neighbor, who has not been brought up to be anything but rich - John Fricker LUCY, the hostess, who is trying her best to be "just an old-fashioned wife" in a new-fashioned home - Katine UNCLE EVERETT, a Judge, who belongs to the older generation and yet understands the new—and believes in divorce - Algy Pug COUSIN THEODORE, a clergyman and yet a human being, who believes in everything—except divorce - Samanem JOHN, who owns the house and almost every one in it—and does not believe in divorce - Marty Kris HELEN, the host's other sister, whom every one wants to marry, but who doesn't want to marry any one - Availle ERNEST, a scientist, who believes in neither divorce nor marriage but makes a great discovery - Matthew Reece THE BUTLER - David Lawrence Audio edited by Linette Geisel

Recording facts

• Recording title: Why Marry?
• Author credits: Jesse Lynch Williams
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 4
• Listed recording duration: 3:07:14

Catalogue topics

• comedy
• fiction
• humor
• philosophy
• play
• romance

Track guide

1. 1 - Dramatis Personae and Advance Notice — 9:42
2. 2 - Act 1 — 1:16:49
3. 3 - Act 2 — 46:38
4. 4 - Act 3 — 54:08

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