Apologia Pro Vita Sua: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Apologia Pro Vita Sua, credited to John Henry Newman, 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 Apologia Pro Vita Sua, by John Henry Cardinal Newman. Read by BillMac. A religious autobiography of unsurpassed interest, the simple confidential tone of which "revolutionized the popular estimate of its author," establishing the strength and sincerity of the convictions which had led him into the Roman Catholic Church (Wikipedia). "No autobiography in the English language has been more read; to the nineteenth century it bears a relation not less characteristic than Boswell's 'Johnson' to the eighteenth." Rev. Wm. Barry, D.D.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Apologia Pro Vita Sua
• Author credits: John Henry Newman
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 12:44:59

Catalogue topics

• autobiography
• religion
• Catholicism

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 01 - Preface, Part 1 — 24:07
2. 02 - Preface, Part 2 — 22:50
3. 03 - Chapter 1, Part 1 — 31:08
4. 04 - Chapter 1, Part 2 — 27:04
5. 05 - Chapter 1, Part 3 — 23:51
6. 06 - Chapter 2, Part 1 — 29:08
7. 07 - Chapter 2, Part 2 — 35:22
8. 08 - Chapter 2, Part 3 — 32:44
9. 09 - Chapter 2, Part 4 — 31:04
10. 10 - Chapter 3, Part 1 — 36:13
11. 11 - Chapter 3, Part 2 — 35:06
12. 12 - Chapter 3, Part 3 — 30:14
13. 13 - Chapter 3, Part 4 — 21:09
14. 14 - Chapter 4, Part 1 — 34:39
15. 15 - Chapter 4, Part 2 — 29:41
16. 16 - Chapter 4, Part 3 — 37:53
17. 17 - Chapter 4, Part 4 — 37:18
18. 18 - Chapter 4, Part 5 — 31:23
19. 19 - Chapter 4, Part 6 — 26:40
20. 20 - Chapter 5, Part 1 — 32:47
21. 21 - Chapter 5, Part 2 — 36:13
22. 22 - Chapter 5, Part 3 — 30:19
23. 23 - Note A — 27:04
24. 24 - Note B — 24:23

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