Cobwebs from a Library Corner: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Cobwebs from a Library Corner, credited to John Kendrick Bangs, 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 Cobwebs from a Library Corner by John Kendrick Bangs. Read in English by April6090; Larry Wilson; oogiesragdoll; Kirill D; Sarah Brown; nighthawks; B L Newman; ChadH94; Tasniim; Caroline Kiley; thestorygirl; Pseudonymous Nerd; Rachel Marie; Austin Heath; KevinS; Kathleen Moore This is a book of 57 sections divided into 2 parts. The first part is comprised of 26 poems & the second part concludes with 31 assorted stories & otherwise. John Kendrick Bangs had been known as a jokester & prankster; was also known to be the editor of Puck, perhaps the foremost American humor magazine. Take a peak and see how you end up with a grin on your face and in your heart as well. That is honest Bangsian writing. - Summary by AR

Recording facts

• Recording title: Cobwebs from a Library Corner
• Author credits: John Kendrick Bangs
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 57
• Listed recording duration: 1:10:36

Catalogue topics

• poems

Opening tracks: first 24 of 57

1. 01 - A Pessimistic View — 1:28
2. 02 - The Master’s Pen—A Confession — 1:24
3. 03 - Bookworm Ballads (a Literary Feast) — 2:01
4. 04 - Ideas for Sale — 2:26
5. 05 - The Author’s Boomerang — 0:43
6. 06 - To an Egotistical Biographer — 0:34
7. 07 - No Copyright Needed — 0:47
8. 08 - Ingredients of Greatness — 0:48
9. 09 - A Common Favorite — 1:32
10. 10 - Their Pens — 0:29
11. 11 - An Unsolved Problem — 0:28
12. 12 - The Bibliophile’s Threat — 0:27
13. 13 - My Treasures — 0:33
14. 14 - A Poet’s Fad — 0:25
15. 15 - The Poet Undone — 0:29
16. 16 - A Waning Muse — 0:31
17. 17 - Modesty — 0:28
18. 18 - My Lord the Book — 0:34
19. 19 - The Bibliomiser — 0:39
20. 20 - The ''Collector'' — 0:47
21. 21 - A Reader — 0:59
22. 22 - Fate! — 0:57
23. 23 - A Pleasing Thought — 0:47
24. 24 - Books vs. ''Books,'' by a Bibliomaniac — 1:20

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