A Late Good Night: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Late Good Night, credited to Robert F. Murray, 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 volunteers bring you 11 recordings of A Late Good Night by Robert F. Murray. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 25, 2016. Much is written about success and failure in the career of literature, about the reasons which enable one man to reach the front, and another to earn his livelihood, while a third, in appearance as likely as either of them, fails and, perhaps, faints by the way. Mr. R. F. Murray, the author of The Scarlet Gown, was among those who do not attain success, in spite of qualities which seem destined to ensure it, and who fall out of the ranks. To him, indeed, success and the rewards of this world, money, and praise, did by no means seem things to be snatched at. To him success meant earning by his pen the very modest sum which sufficed for his wants, and the leisure necessary for serious essays in poetry. Fate denied him even this, in spite of his charming natural endowment of humour, of tenderness, of delight in good letters, and in nature. He died young; he was one of those whose talent matures slowly, and he died before he came into the full possession of his intellectual kingdom. He had the ambition to excel, αίεν αριστευειν, as the Homeric motto of his University runs, and he was on the way to excellence when his health broke down. He lingered for two years and passed away. (introductory MEMOIR by ANDREW LANG to 'ROBERT F. MURRAY (author of the scarlet gown) HIS POEMS'. )

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Late Good Night
• Author credits: Robert F. Murray
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 11
• Listed recording duration: 14:47

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• romance
• noctural

Track guide

1. 01 - A Late Good Night - Read by BK — 1:36
2. 02 - A Late Good Night - Read by DL — 1:09
3. 03 - A Late Good Night - Read by CAL — 1:13
4. 04 - A Late Good Night - Read by FS — 1:07
5. 05 - A Late Good Night - Read by IK — 1:15
6. 06 - A Late Good Night - Read by LAH — 1:23
7. 07 - A Late Good Night - Read by MSD — 1:04
8. 08 - A Late Good Night - Read by SS — 1:24
9. 09 - A Late Good Night - Read by TP — 1:04
10. 10 - A Late Good Night - Read by VB — 1:12
11. 11 - A Late Good Night - Read by VBV — 2:19

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