Atlantic Classics: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Atlantic Classics, credited to Various, 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 Atlantic Classics by Various. Read in English by MaryAnn; Phil Schempf; J. M. Smallheer; Wayne Anderson; Preston; Tom Penn; Chris Pyle; Allison Virginia; Gary Grenholm; DrPGould; Robert Robinson The Atlantic was a popular periodical with a wide range of essays and stories. In an effort to remain current, many strong and valid submissions ended up being pushed aside. The Atlantic Classic was an experimental publication, drawing on some sixteen of these good but rejected essays. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Atlantic Classics
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 7:45:07

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 4:52
2. 01 - Dogs and Men By Henry C. Merwin — 34:23
3. 02 - Jungle Night By William Beebe (1867-1962) — 40:28
4. 03 - The Devil Baby at Hull-House By Jane Addams (1860-1935) — 36:24
5. 04 - Every Man's Natural Desire to be Somebody Else By Samuel McChord Crothers (1857-1927) — 26:16
6. 05 - The Temple's Difficult Door By Robert M. Gay — 23:14
7. 06 - Exile and Postman By Jean Kenyon Mackenzie — 19:38
8. 07 - The Life of Adventure By Edgar J. Goodspeed — 20:53
9. 08 - An Indictment of Intercollegiate Athletics By William T. Foster (1879-1950) — 40:29
10. 09 - Car-Window Botany By Lida F. Baldwin — 17:40
11. 10 - Studies in Solitude By Fannie Stearns Gifford — 15:45
12. 11 - The Greek Genius By John Jay Chapman (1862-1933) — 57:38
13. 12 - In Praise of Old Ladies By Lucy Martin Donnelly(1870-1948) — 14:38
14. 13 - A Memory of Old Gentlemen By Sharlot M. Hall (1870-1943) — 10:33
15. 14 - Viola's Lovers: A Study in the New Morality By Richard Bowland Kimball — 16:52
16. 15 - Haunted Lives By Laura Spencer Portor (1872-1957) — 38:00
17. 16 - The Acropolis and Golgotha By Anne C. E. Allinson — 27:24
18. 17 - The Baptizing of the Baby By Elizabeth Taylor (1856-1932) — 19:59

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