Day Dreams: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Day Dreams, credited to Rudolph Valentino, 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 Day Dreams by Rudolph Valentino. Read in English by Chuck Williamson; Larry Wilson; Josh Kibbey; Stefan Von Blon; Tomas Peter; Matthew Ryan Ross; Nichalia Schwartz; Kathleen Moore; Sarah Brown; Elsie Selwyn; Helen Z. Ferrara; Campbell Schelp Published in 1923, Day Dreams is a collection of poems written by Hollywood screen icon Rudolph Valentino. Authored during Valentino’s court-imposed exile from the film industry, where a protracted legal battle with Famous Players-Lasky prevented him from acting, this collection channels much of the actor’s fear, frustration, desire, and his all-encompassing need for escapism. In his own words, this collection helped Valentino "forget the tediousness of worldly strife and the boredom of jurisprudence's pedantic etiquette." This fascinating piece of Hollywood ephemera gives us a snapshot of the famed "Latin Lover" at his most mediative and romantic. (ChuckW)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Day Dreams
• Author credits: Rudolph Valentino
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 64
• Listed recording duration: 1:06:11

Catalogue topics

• cinema
• movies
• Hollywood
• stardom
• movie stars

Opening tracks: first 24 of 64

1. 00 - Introduction and Preface — 2:18
2. 01 - The Gift Book — 1:03
3. 02 - Nature — 0:32
4. 03 - The Love Child — 1:28
5. 04 - Heart Flower — 0:37
6. 05 - You — 1:46
7. 06 - Day Dreams — 0:49
8. 07 - Suspicion — 0:46
9. 08 - The Sage — 0:52
10. 09 - Morphia — 0:42
11. 10 - Domino — 0:53
12. 11 - The Sphinx — 1:27
13. 12 - Stradivarius — 0:49
14. 13 - Extravaganza — 1:12
15. 14 - Mirage — 0:48
16. 15 - Glorification — 1:17
17. 16 - Remembrance — 0:38
18. 17 - Three Generations of Kisses — 1:16
19. 18 - A Baby’s Skin — 0:40
20. 19 - Gratitude — 1:21
21. 20 - Shadows — 0:53
22. 21 - Accusation — 0:36
23. 22 - Even Song — 0:45
24. 23 - Gypsies — 1:25

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