Esther Waters by George Moore – new free audiobook

Esther Waters is a book I saw recommended somewhere online a long time ago, bought in hard copy from the dingy basement of a London bookshop a year ago, and have now contributed two chapters to its audiobook incarnation. It’s a realist novel about a housemaid whose virtue is lost – outside the sanctity of marriage – to a roguish young man and the consequences of that action. It’s unusual for the period in that the world doesn’t end with a woman’s fall … things go on, and they are Victorianly grim, but also quite vivid and imaginable. It’s a long listen, at 14 hrs, but I reckon well worth it.

Download individual files or the whole thing in a zipped folder from:
http://librivox.org/esther-waters-by-george-moore/

Listen to me starting off the book:

[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/esther_waters_0906_librivox1/estherwaters_01_moore.mp3] (17:07)