Abaft The Funnel: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Abaft The Funnel, credited to Rudyard Kipling, 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 Abaft The Funnel, by Rudyard Kipling. Read by David Wales. "Men in pajamas sitting abaft the funnel and swapping lies of the purple seas." Thirty one early short stories by the master story teller Kipling. The listener should be prepared for some racist and other biased attitudes and language, common at the time of writing though cringe-inducing now. Some of the stories are a bit confusing because of Kipling's use of Indian terms and completely opaque slang. (Summary by David Wales and title page)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Abaft The Funnel
• Author credits: Rudyard Kipling
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 31
• Combined MP3 track duration: 6:51:25

Catalogue topics

• short stories
• sea stories

Opening tracks: first 24 of 31

1. 01 - Erastasius Of The Whanghoa — 11:53
2. 02 - Her Little Responsibility — 9:13
3. 03 - A Menagerie Aboard — 6:27
4. 04 - A Smoke Of Manila — 7:33
5. 05 - The Red Lamp — 8:14
6. 06 - The Shadow Of His Hand — 9:25
7. 07 - A Little More Beef — 10:48
8. 08 - The History Of A Fall — 8:25
9. 09 - Griffiths The Safe Man — 12:17
10. 10 - It! — 8:44
11. 11 - A Fallen Idol — 7:04
12. 12 - New Brooms — 8:58
13. 13 - Tiglath Pileser — 11:33
14. 14 - The Likes o' Us — 13:42
15. 15 - His Brother's Keeper — 21:15
16. 16 - Sleipner Late Thurinda — 23:34
17. 17 - A Supplementary Chapter — 23:30
18. 18 - Chautauguaed — 28:44
19. 19 - The Bow Flume Cable Car — 10:05
20. 20 - In Partibus — 3:31
21. 21 - Letters On Leave — 40:27
22. 22 - The Adoration Of The Mage — 7:34
23. 23 - A Death In The Camp — 7:19
24. 24 - A Really Good Time — 9:20

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