1916: First Chapters Collection: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

1916: First Chapters Collection, credited to Various, 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 1916: First Chapters Collection by Various. Read in English by John Burlinson; VfkaBT; BettyB; Jim Locke; Tony Addison; Maria Kasper; MaryAnnS; Kalynda; Jennifer Fournier; Brice These are first chapters to books first published in 1916. Readers, following is a tentative list culled from Wikipedia's article on the year in Literature; most of the works are to be found on Project Gutenberg. - Summary by Matt Pierard

Recording facts

• Recording title: 1916: First Chapters Collection
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 26
• Listed recording duration: 14:05:55

Catalogue topics

• classics
• 1916
• first chapters

Opening tracks: first 24 of 26

1. 01 - Sherwood Anderson - Windy McPherson's Son — 21:14
2. 02 - Henri Barbusse - Under Fire — 33:06
3. 03 - L. Frank Baum - Rinkitink in Oz — 14:53
4. 04 - Edgar Rice Burroughs - The Beasts of Tarzan — 16:52
5. 05 - Ellen Glasgow - Virginia — 37:21
6. 06 - Sarah Grand - The Winged Victory — 40:19
7. 07 - Louis Hemon - Maria Chapdelaine — 25:06
8. 08 - William Dean Howells - The Leatherwood God — 26:09
9. 09 - James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Pt. 1 — 1:00:51
10. 10 - James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Pt. 2 — 1:15:05
11. 11 - Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis — 42:28
12. 12 - Grace King - The Pleasant Ways of St. Medard — 13:20
13. 13 - Ring Lardner - You Know Me Al — 49:32
14. 14 - George Moore - The Brook Kerith: A Syrian Story — 21:23
15. 15 - Baroness Orczy - Leatherface — 59:55
16. 16 - May Sinclair - Tasker Jevons — 54:20
17. 17 - Rabindranath Tagore - The Home and the World — 13:52
18. 18 - Booth Tarkington - Seventeen — 5:40
19. 19 - Mark Twain - The Mysterious Stranger — 7:48
20. 20 - Mrs Humphry Ward - Lady Connie — 37:59
21. 21 - H. G. Wells - Mr. Britling Sees It Through — 1:08:33
22. 22 - Edith Wharton - Autres Tempes — 18:11
23. 23 - James Oliver Curwood - The Grizzly King — 10:05
24. 24 - Anne Monroe - Happy Valley; A Story of Oregon — 17:03

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