Appreciations, with an Essay on Style: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Appreciations, with an Essay on Style, credited to Walter Pater, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Appreciations, with an Essay on Style, by Walter Pater. Appreciations, with an Essay on Style, is a collection of Walter Pater's previously-published essays on literature. The collection was well received by public and critic since its first edition, in 1889. The volume includes an appraisal of the poems of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, first printed in 1883, a few months after Rossetti's death; an essay on Thomas Browne, whose Baroque style Pater admired; and a discussion of Measure for Measure, one of Pater's most often reprinted pieces. The second edition, published in 1890, had a few modifications, and is the basis for all other editions of the book. (Summary by Leni)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Appreciations, with an Essay on Style
• Author credits: Walter Pater
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 8:03:46

Catalogue topics

• essays
• style
• Shakespeare
• Wordsworth
• Colleridge
• Charles Lamb
• Thomas Browne
• Rossetti

Track guide

1. 01 - Style, part 1 — 28:23
2. 02 - Style, part 2 — 37:23
3. 03 - Wordsworth, part 1 — 22:13
4. 04 - Wordsworth, part 2 — 21:04
5. 05 - Coleridge, part 1 — 39:13
6. 06 - Coleridge, part 2 — 30:38
7. 07 - Charles Lamb — 34:24
8. 08 - Sir Thomas Browne, part 1 — 35:48
9. 09 - Sir Thomas Browne, part 2 — 42:25
10. 10 - Love's Labours Lost — 16:59
11. 11 - Measure for Measure — 25:41
12. 12 - Shakespeare's English Kings — 32:09
13. 13 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti — 27:58
14. 14 - Feuillet's La Morte, part 1 — 22:04
15. 15 - Feuillet's La Morte, part 2 — 22:41
16. 16 - Postscript — 44:51

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