A Selection from Young Adventure, A Book of Poems: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Selection from Young Adventure, A Book of Poems, credited to Stephen Vincent Benét, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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Librivox recording of A Selection from Young Adventure, A Book of Poems by Stephen Vincent Benét. Read by Bryan Ness. Stephen Vincent Benét (July 22, 1898 March 13, 1943) was an American author, poet, short story writer and novelist. He is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body (1928), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and for two short stories, "The Devil and Daniel Webster" and "By the Waters of Babylon". It was a line of Benét's poetry that gave the title to Dee Brown's famous history of the destruction of Native American tribes by the United States: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. (Summary excerpted from Wikipedia) This recording includes the Dedication, Foreword and first 16 poems from Young Adventure, A Book of Poems. For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org.

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Selection from Young Adventure, A Book of Poems
• Author credits: Stephen Vincent Benét
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 1:22:43

Catalogue topics

• poetry

Track guide

1. 01 - Dedication and Foreword — 6:21
2. 02 - The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun — 21:31
3. 03 - Rain after a Vaudeville Show — 2:26
4. 04 - The City Revisited — 3:05
5. 05 - Going Back to School — 2:19
6. 06 - Nos Immortales — 1:24
7. 07 - Young Blood — 3:15
8. 08 - The Quality of Courage — 8:43
9. 09 - Campus Sonnets: 1) Before an Examination, 2) Talk, 3) May Morning, 4) Return -- 1917 — 4:14
10. 10 - Alexander VI Dines with the Cardinal of Capua — 3:25
11. 11 - The Breaking Point — 2:13
12. 12 - Lonely Burial — 1:29
13. 13 - Dinner in a Quick Lunch Room — 1:38
14. 14 - The Hemp — 8:54
15. 15 - Poor Devil! — 2:09
16. 16 - Ghosts of a Lunatic Asylum — 1:38
17. 17 - The White Peacock — 8:12

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