Ardours and Endurances: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Ardours and Endurances, credited to Robert Nichols, 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 Ardours and Endurances by Robert Nichols. Read in English by Diana Schmidt; Ian King; RecordingPerson; Nemo; Eva Davis This is a volume of war poetry by English poet and playwright Robert Nichols. To quote Wikipedia: "On 11 November 1985, Nichols was among 16 Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner. The inscription on the stone was written by a fellow Great War poet, Wilfred Owen. It reads: 'My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.'" This particular volume of poetry contains his most well-known poems, and is also perhaps one of the most haunting collections of war poetry in the English language. - Summary by Carolin

Recording facts

• Recording title: Ardours and Endurances
• Author credits: Robert Nichols
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 31
• Listed recording duration: 1:14:05

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• World War I
• WWI
• poem
• war
• england
• Germany
• trenches

Opening tracks: first 24 of 31

1. 01 - Introduction — 4:07
2. 02 - The Summons - I - To -- — 1:10
3. 03 - The Summons - I - The Past — 0:56
4. 04 - The Summons - II - The Reckoning — 1:27
5. 05 - Farewell To Place of Comfort — 2:09
6. 06 - The Approach - I - In the Grass: Halt by Roadside — 0:50
7. 07 - The Approach - II - The Day's March — 1:41
8. 08 - The Approach - III - Nearer — 0:50
9. 09 - Battle - I - Noon — 1:26
10. 10 - Battle - II - Night Bombardment — 4:57
11. 11 - Battle - III - Comrades: An Episode — 7:00
12. 12 - Battle - IV - Behind the Lines: Night, France — 1:31
13. 13 - Battle - V - At the Wars — 3:02
14. 14 - Battle - VI - Out of Trenches: The Barn, Twilight — 2:36
15. 15 - Battle - VII - Battery moving up to a New Position from Rest Camp: Dawn — 4:04
16. 16 - Battle - VIII - Eve of Assault: Infantry going down to Trenches — 1:51
17. 17 - Battle - IX - The Assault — 6:48
18. 18 - Battle - X - The Last Morning — 1:15
19. 19 - Battle - XI - Fulfilment — 1:54
20. 20 - The Dead - I - The Burial in Flanders — 2:17
21. 21 - The Dead - II - Boy — 3:42
22. 22 - The Dead - III - Plaint of Friendship by Death Broken — 4:52
23. 23 - The Dead - IV - By the Wood — 2:02
24. 24 - The Aftermath - I - At the Ebb — 2:14

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