Ceres’ Runaway & Other Essays: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Ceres’ Runaway & Other Essays, credited to Alice Meynell, 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 Ceres’ Runaway & Other Essays by Alice Meynell. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League, She and her husband Wilfrid Meynell were active in publishing and editing literary works including helping to launch the first works of Francis Thompson, author of "Hound of Heaven." The Meynell's later converted to Roman Catholicism. These essays are very evocative for anyone who has, or wants to visit London, capturing the atmosphere of the late nineteenth century In "Ceres' Runaway," she covers topics ranging through travel, literature and children. - Summary by Larry Wilson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Ceres’ Runaway & Other Essays
• Author credits: Alice Meynell
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 21
• Listed recording duration: 2:58:54

Catalogue topics

• essays
• children
• Italy

Track guide

1. 01 - Ceres’ Runaway — 7:34
2. 02 - A Vanquished Man — 9:44
3. 03 - A Northern Fancy — 11:04
4. 04 - Laughter — 8:31
5. 05 - Harlequin Mercutio — 6:32
6. 06 - The Little Language — 10:23
7. 07 - Anima Pellegrina! — 7:47
8. 08 - The Sea Wall — 10:05
9. 09 - The Daffodil — 8:12
10. 10 - Addresses — 5:59
11. 11 - The Audience — 5:20
12. 12 - Tithonus — 11:41
13. 13 - The Tow Path — 7:36
14. 14 - The Tethered Constellations — 5:49
15. 15 - Popular Burlesque — 10:12
16. 16 - Dry Autumn — 7:12
17. 17 - The Plaid — 7:01
18. 18 - Two Burdens — 7:14
19. 19 - The Unready — 8:56
20. 20 - The Child of Tumult — 12:05
21. 21 - The Child of Subsiding Tumult — 9:57

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