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Richard MarshThe Beetle (April 13, 2009)

LibriVox recording of The Beetle, by Richard Marsh. Read by icyjumbo, Alan Winterrowd, Ruth Golding and Anthony Wilson.

A story about a mysterious oriental figure who pursues a British politician to London, where he wreaks havoc with his powers of hypnosis and shape-shifting, Marsh's novel is of a piece with other sensational turn-of-the-century fictions such as Stoker's Dracula, George du Maurier's Trilby, and Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu novels.

Like Dracula and many of the sensation novels pioneered by Wilkie Collins and others in the 1860s, The Beetle is narrated from the perspectives of multiple characters, a technique used in many late nineteenth-century novels (those of Wilkie Collins and Stoker, for example) to create suspense. (Summary by Wikipedia)

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Artist/Composer: Richard Marsh
Date: 2009-04-13
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; fiction; novel; sensation; hypnosis

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Individual Files

Whole Item	Format	Size
the_beetle_0904_librivox_128kb.m3u	128kbps M3U	Stream
the_beetle_0904_librivox_64kb_mp3.zip	64Kbps MP3 ZIP	328 MB

Audio Files	128Kbps MP3	Ogg Vorbis	64Kbps MP3
01 - Outside	13 MB	9.14 MB	6.56 MB
02 - Inside	16 MB	11 MB	7.97 MB
03 - The Man in the Bed	12 MB	8.49 MB	5.80 MB
04 - A Lonely Vigil	13 MB	9.24 MB	6.61 MB
05 - An Instruction to Commit Burglary	21 MB	15 MB	10 MB
06 - A Singular Felony	18 MB	13 MB	8.91 MB
07 - The Great Paul Lessingham	18 MB	13 MB	8.87 MB
08 - The Man in the Street	4.76 MB	3.36 MB	2.38 MB
09 - The Contents of the Packet	11 MB	7.78 MB	5.52 MB
10 - Rejected	12 MB	8.08 MB	5.79 MB
11 - A Midnight Episode	13 MB	9.10 MB	6.45 MB
12 - A Morning Visitor	11 MB	7.25 MB	5.31 MB
13 - The Picture	23 MB	16 MB	12 MB
14 - The Duchess' Ball	17 MB	12 MB	8.54 MB
15 - Mr Lessingham Speaks	14 MB	9.57 MB	6.93 MB
16 - Atherton's Magic Vapour	17 MB	12 MB	8.61 MB
17 - Magic?--Or Miracle?	4.93 MB	3.42 MB	2.46 MB
18 - The Apotheosis of the Beetle	32 MB	22 MB	16 MB
19 - The Lady Rages	9.54 MB	6.59 MB	4.77 MB
20 - A Heavy Father	9.68 MB	6.66 MB	4.84 MB
21 - The Terror in the Night	24 MB	17 MB	12 MB
22 - The Haunted Man	26 MB	18 MB	13 MB
23 - The Way He Told Her	13 MB	8.44 MB	6.72 MB
24 - A Woman's View	8.71 MB	5.55 MB	4.35 MB
25 - The Man in the Street	10 MB	6.60 MB	5.17 MB
26 - A Father's No	8.49 MB	5.44 MB	4.24 MB
27 - The Terror by Night	17 MB	10 MB	8.27 MB
28 - The Strange Story of the Man in the Street	25 MB	16 MB	13 MB
29 - The House on the Road from the Workhouse	28 MB	18 MB	14 MB
30 - The Singular Behaviour of Mr. Holt	5.54 MB	3.52 MB	2.77 MB
31 - The Terror by Day	11 MB	7.23 MB	5.69 MB
32 - A New Client	5.85 MB	4.26 MB	2.93 MB
33 - What Came From Looking Through a Lattice	20 MB	15 MB	9.75 MB
34 - After Twenty Years	15 MB	11 MB	7.55 MB
35 - A Bringer of Tidings	4.64 MB	3.39 MB	2.32 MB
36 - What the Tidings Were	8.96 MB	6.44 MB	4.48 MB
37 - What Was Hidden Under the Floor	12 MB	8.42 MB	5.89 MB
38 - The Rest of the Find	8.30 MB	5.86 MB	4.14 MB
39 - Miss Louisa Coleman	18 MB	13 MB	8.97 MB
40 - What Miss Coleman Saw Through the Window	10 MB	7.29 MB	5.05 MB
41 - The Constable,--His Clue,--And the Cab	14 MB	10 MB	6.85 MB
42 - The Quarry Doubles	9.74 MB	7.19 MB	4.87 MB
43 - The Murder at Mrs. 'Enderson's	20 MB	15 MB	10 MB
44 - The Man Who Was Murdered	12 MB	8.73 MB	5.90 MB
45 - All That Mrs. 'Enderson Knew	6.12 MB	4.37 MB	3.06 MB
46 - The Sudden Stopping	14 MB	10 MB	7.05 MB
47 - The Contents of the Third-Class Carriage	4.92 MB	3.54 MB	2.46 MB
48 - The Conclusion of the Matter	7.11 MB	5.06 MB	3.56 MB

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Reviewer: penthorpe -

- December 1, 2009
Subject: a strange adventure
Changing readers as the different characters take up the story made this a fun listen. Well done.

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