Two Years and Four Months in a Lunatic Asylum


Read by Elaine Webb

(3.9 stars; 8 reviews)

Hiram Chase is a well liked Reverend in a small ministry in Utica. When his mental and physical health deteriorates, he is taken to Utica lunatic asylum. After his stay in the asylum, Hiram documents his experiences and those of other patients in the asylum. He describes his daily routine and the negative experiences he had, along with praising certain individuals whom he met during his "Two Years and Four Months in a Lunatic Asylum". (Summary by Elaine Webb) (3 hr 52 min)

Chapters

Preface 13:00 Read by Elaine Webb
Chapter 01 19:03 Read by Elaine Webb
Chapter 02 16:56 Read by Elaine Webb
Chapter 03 26:03 Read by Elaine Webb
Chapter 04 50:17 Read by Elaine Webb
Chapter 05 18:39 Read by Elaine Webb
Chapter 06 32:44 Read by Elaine Webb
Chapter 07 35:45 Read by Elaine Webb
Chapter 08 19:41 Read by Elaine Webb

Reviews

Interesting


(4 stars)

This book is set during the 1860s. It's rather sad to hear how the asylum was used as a dumping ground for the old, the depressed and the eccentric. Elaine does an excellent job reading this book for Librivox. The sound quality is a bit tinny, but nothing that affects comprehension of the text.

two years and four months in a lunatic asylum


(3 stars)

Slow reader. I kept waiting for something exciting to happen and it never did.

Reader


(1 stars)

Awful sound quality and reader is extremely stilted, text to speech flows more smoothly

Wrong story for the reader. Content is good.


(4 stars)

Interesting


(5 stars)

I liked listening to this.