Work: A Story of Experience: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Work: A Story of Experience, credited to Louisa may Alcott, 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 Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa may Alcott It is one of "several nineteenth-century novels [which] uncovers the changes in women's work in the new industrial era, as well as the dilemmas, tensions, and the meaning of that work" The story depicts the struggles of a young woman trying to support herself. The main character, Christie Devon, works outside the home in a variety of different jobs, but the end of her story marks "the beginning of a new career as a voice and activist for other working women". (Summary by Bonnie Lee)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Work: A Story of Experience
• Author credits: Louisa may Alcott
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 21
• Listed recording duration: 12:47:52

Catalogue topics

• alcott
• work
• christie devon
• audio books

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface: Quote & Inscription — 1:12
2. 01 - Christe — 24:47
3. 02 - Servant — 29:54
4. 03 - Actress — 37:21
5. 04 - Governess — 56:42
6. 05 - Companion — 1:03:31
7. 06 - Seamstress — 36:46
8. 07 - Through the Mist — 43:45
9. 08 - A Cure For Despair — 42:01
10. 09 - Mrs. Wilkins's Minister — 41:00
11. 10 - Beginning Again — 48:21
12. 11 - In The Strawberry Bed — 19:22
13. 12 - Christie's Gala — 45:25
14. 13 - Waking Up — 47:26
15. 14 - Which? — 38:56
16. 15 - Midsummer — 35:27
17. 16 - Mustered In — 43:05
18. 17 - The Colonel — 25:36
19. 18 - Sunrise — 15:36
20. 19 - Little Heart's Ease — 26:32
21. 20 - At Forty — 45:16

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