A Shropshire Lad: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Shropshire Lad, credited to A. E. Housman, 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 A Shropshire Lad, by A.E. Housman. Read by Alaaious. A Shropshire Lad is a cycle of sixty-three poems by the English poet Alfred Edward Housman. A Shropshire Lad was first published in 1896 at Housman's own expense after several publishers had turned it down. At first the book sold slowly, but during the Second Boer War, Housman's nostalgic depiction of rural life and young men's early deaths struck a chord with English readers and the book became a bestseller. Later, World War I further increased its popularity.(Summary from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Shropshire Lad
• Author credits: A. E. Housman
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 2
• Listed recording duration: 53:25

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• housman
• mortality

Track guide

1. Part 1 — 27:24
2. Part 2 — 26:01

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