Books Fatal to Their Authors: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Books Fatal to Their Authors by Peter Hempson Ditchfield: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 17 original MP3 tracks, 5:44:19 running time and a link to listen.
Books Fatal to Their Authors, credited to Peter Hempson Ditchfield, 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 Books Fatal to Their Authors by Peter Hempson Ditchfield. Read in English by Librivox volunteers. This is a collection of stories of authors who have lost their fortunes and sometimes their lives after writing a book. The liberty of a person's conscience was unknown in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; Why should a man be drawn and quartered for writing what we know is the truth? What must it have been like to have lived in that era. At the time it was dangerous to say that the earth went around the sun and many other theories were treated in the same way. (Summary by Michele Eaton)
Recording facts
- Recording title: Books Fatal to Their Authors
- Author credits: Peter Hempson Ditchfield
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 17
- Listed recording duration: 5:44:19
Catalogue topics
- book burning
- persecution
- free speech
Track guide
- 00 - Preface To the Book Lover — 9:56
- 01 - Chapter 1 Part 1 Theology — 15:08
- 02 - Chapter 1 Part 2 — 18:01
- 03 - Chapter 1 part 3 — 17:27
- 04 - Chapter 1 Part 4 — 11:37
- 05 - Chapter 2 Fanatics and Free-Thinkers — 23:37
- 06 - Chapter 3 Astrology, Alchemy and Magic — 23:19
- 07 - Chapter 4 Science and Philosophy — 28:05
- 08 - Chapter 5 Part 1 History — 17:21
- 09 - Chapter 5 Part 2 — 18:26
- 10 - Chapter 6 Part 1 Politics and Statesmanship — 20:42
- 11 - Chapter 6 Part 2 — 21:00
- 12 - Chapter 7 Satire — 29:36
- 13 - Chapter 8 Poetry — 29:33
- 14 - Chapter 9 Drama and Romance — 13:55
- 15 - Chapter 10 Booksellers and Publishers — 32:36
- 16 - Chapter 11 Some Literary Martyrs — 14:00
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