Devotions upon Emergent Occasions: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, credited to John Donne, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Devotions upon Emergent Occasions by John Donne. Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English writer John Donne. It is a series of reflections that were written as Donne recovered from a serious illness, believed to be either typhus or relapsing fever. (Donne does not clearly identify the disease in his text.) The work consists of twenty-three parts describing each stage of the sickness. Each part is further divided into a Meditation, an Expostulation, and a Prayer. The seventeenth meditation is perhaps the best-known part of the work. It contains the following passage: "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." (Summary by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
• Author credits: John Donne
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 24
• Listed recording duration: 5:59:21

Catalogue topics

• religion
• meditations
• prayers
• illness

Track guide

1. 00 - Dedication — 2:36
2. 01 - Devotion 1 — 13:04
3. 02 - Devotion 2 — 12:01
4. 03 - Devotion 3 — 16:58
5. 04 - Devotion 4 — 17:41
6. 05 - Devotion 5 — 16:41
7. 06 - Devotion 6 — 18:01
8. 07 - Devotion 7 — 20:11
9. 08 - Devotion 8 — 16:26
10. 09 - Devotion 9 — 16:05
11. 10 - Devotion 10 — 15:25
12. 11 - Devotion 11 — 18:49
13. 12 - Devotion 12 — 16:00
14. 13 - Devotion 13 — 10:26
15. 14 - Devotion 14 — 19:35
16. 15 - Devotion 15 — 14:03
17. 16 - Devotion 16 — 11:37
18. 17 - Devotion 17 — 13:01
19. 18 - Devotion 18 — 15:22
20. 19 - Devotion 19 — 18:24
21. 20 - Devotion 20 — 13:10
22. 21 - Devotion 21 — 15:03
23. 22 - Devotion 22 — 12:28
24. 23 - Devotion 23 — 16:22

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