Wyllard's Weird: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Wyllard's Weird, 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 Wyllard's Weird by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Read in English by Lynne Thompson A novel written in three volumes. In the golden age of steam, the London train wends its way across the Tamar into the strange and mystic land that is Cornwall, having left most of its length at Plymouth. A weary doctor gazes at the countryside, when the train grinds to a halt and his professional attention is demanded. A young woman. An apparent suicide. Who was she? What brought her to Cornwall? What drove her to kill herself? Or did she? - Summary by Lynne Thompson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Wyllard's Weird
• Author credits: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 34
• Listed recording duration: 17:19:40

Catalogue topics

• women
• suicide
• bohemia
• wedding
• elopement
• home
• widow
• grave

Opening tracks: first 24 of 34

1. 01 - Volume 1 Chapter 1: In a Cornish Valley — 51:01
2. 02 - Volume 1 Chapter 2: After the Inquest — 39:03
3. 03 - Volume 1 Chapter 3: Joseph Distin — 37:47
4. 04 - Volume 1 Chapter 4: Bothwell Declines to Answer — 20:35
5. 05 - Volume 1 Chapter 5: People Will Talk — 17:44
6. 06 - Volume 1 Chapter 6: A Clerical Warning — 35:15
7. 07 - Volume 1 Chapter 7: A Rapid Conversion — 23:15
8. 08 - Volume 1 Chapter 8: A Valuable Ally — 12:44
9. 09 - Volume 1 Chapter 9: Fever Dreams — 41:42
10. 10 - Volume 1 Chapter 10: 'Touch Lips and Part with Tears' — 41:09
11. 11 - Volume 1 Chapter 11: A Fatal Love — 33:35
12. 12 - Volume 2 Chapter 1: Léonie's Mission — 41:30
13. 13 - Volume 2 Chapter 2: A Student of Men and Women — 40:00
14. 14 - Volume 2 Chapter 3: Bothwell Begins to See his Way — 47:08
15. 15 - Volume 2 Chapter 4: The Home of the Past — 19:12
16. 16 - Volume 2 Chapter 5: A Face from the Grave — 21:04
17. 17 - Volume 2 Chapter 6: Struck Down — 36:53
18. 18 - Volume 2 Chapter 7: The General Receives a Summons — 39:48
19. 19 - Volume 2 Chapter 8: Widowed and Free — 40:25
20. 20 - Volume 2 Chapter 9: Two Women — 13:14
21. 21 - Volume 2 Chapter 10: Roses on a Grave — 35:47
22. 22 - Volume 3 Chapter 1: Wedding Garments — 36:18
23. 23 - Volume 3 Chapter 2: Lady Valeria Fights Her Own Battle — 33:00
24. 24 - Volume 3 Chapter 3: An Elopement on New Lines — 35:30

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