Books and Reading: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Books and Reading, credited to Noah Porter, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Books and Reading by Noah Porter. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. [The author] hopes that the effect of these discussions may lead to more comprehensive and elevated estimates of authors and of literature on the part of those who read themselves or who direct the reading of others, and that in this and other ways, the volume may stimulate to a wise selection of Books and to enlightened and successful methods of Reading. - Summary by Preface

Recording facts

• Recording title: Books and Reading
• Author credits: Noah Porter
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 22
• Listed recording duration: 13:47:06

Catalogue topics

• books
• reading
• Goethe
• English literature
• George Eliot
• Thomas Carlyle
• matthew arnold
• english language

Track guide

1. 01 - Introductory — 31:20
2. 02 - What is a book? And what is it to read? — 20:46
3. 03 - How to read - Attention in reading — 17:07
4. 04 - How to read with interest and effect — 23:51
5. 05 - The relations of the reader to his author — 41:40
6. 06 - The influence of books and reading on the opinions and principles — 20:35
7. 07 - The moral influence of books and reading - The reading of fiction — 20:38
8. 08 - Imaginative Literature: Its representation of moral evil — 38:02
9. 09 - The religious character and influence of books and reading — 20:09
10. 10 - A Christian literature: How conceived and defined — 30:14
11. 11 - A history and historical reading — 41:29
12. 12 - How to read history — 1:00:35
13. 13 - A course of historical reading — 51:28
14. 14 - Biography and biographical reading — 1:00:10
15. 15 - Novels and novel reading — 47:45
16. 16 - Poetry and poets — 54:10
17. 17 - The criticism and history of literature — 42:16
18. 18 - The criticism of English literature — 37:52
19. 19 - Books of science and duty — 41:46
20. 20 - Religious books and Sunday reading — 43:26
21. 21 - Newspapers and periodicals — 41:19
22. 22 - The library — 40:28

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