Challenge: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Challenge, credited to John William Streets, 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 Challenge by John William Streets. Read in English by Algy Pug; Bruce Kachuk; Christie Crews; David Lawrence; Newgatenovelist; Greg Giordano; Hats4cats; Ian King; J. McDougall; Lee Ann Howlett; bean420; MaryAnn; Maria Kasper; Ruth Golding; SamanthaBraswell The editor of the volume Made in the Trenches includes these poignant notes: Corporal Streets, in submitting these sonnets some months ago, wrote: "They express not only my feelings but the feelings of thousands of others who, like myself, are on the verge of departure from England." Cpl. Streets, in a letter accompanying later poems, also wrote: "They were inspired while I was in the trenches, where I have been so busy that I have had little time to polish them. I have tried to picture some thoughts that pass through a man's brain when he dies. I may not see the end of the poems, but hope to live to do so. We soldiers have our views of life to express, though the boom of death is in our ears. We try to convey something of what we feel in this great conflict to those who think of us, and sometimes, alas! mourn our loss. We desire to let them know that in the midst of our keenest sadness for the joy of life we leave behind we go to meet death grim-lipped, clear-eyed, and resolute-hearted." He didn't survive, killed in action on 1st July 1916. - Summary by Ruth Golding

Recording facts

• Recording title: Challenge
• Author credits: John William Streets
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 15
• Listed recording duration: 18:24

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• World War I
• WWI
• war
• First World War
• World War One

Track guide

1. 01 - Challenge - Read by ALP — 1:11
2. 02 - Challenge - Read by BK — 1:24
3. 03 - Challenge - Read by CRC — 1:27
4. 04 - Challenge - Read by DL — 1:09
5. 05 - Challenge - Read by EL — 1:11
6. 06 - Challenge - Read by GG — 1:28
7. 07 - Challenge - Read by H4C — 0:56
8. 08 - Challenge - Read by IK — 1:19
9. 09 - Challenge - Read by JM — 1:05
10. 10 - Challenge - Read by LAH — 1:09
11. 11 - Challenge - Read by LB — 1:09
12. 12 - Challenge - Read by MAS — 1:11
13. 13 - Challenge - Read by MK — 1:21
14. 14 - Challenge - Read by RG — 1:21
15. 15 - Challenge - Read by SJB — 1:03

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