Dialogues of the Dead: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Dialogues of the Dead, credited to George Lyttelton, 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 Dialogues of the Dead by George Lyttelton. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. Can the dead of different ages and spaces meet in the afterlife? This is a thought that has occupied a number of writers throughout literature, George Lyttleton being one of them. He allows Plato to discourse with Fenelon, allows a native American warrior to explain the barbarity of the custom of duels among gentlemen to a victim of such a duel, and he has William Penn clash with Fernando Cortez over Cortez's cruelty in Mexico. The characters of the conversations are as different as the subjects, drawing not only on Lyttleton's rich historical knowledge, but also on his experience as a statesman. - Summary by Carolin

Recording facts

• Recording title: Dialogues of the Dead
• Author credits: George Lyttelton
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 33
• Listed recording duration: 6:54:45

Catalogue topics

• politics
• death
• england
• dialogue
• underworld
• 1760
• 2018

Opening tracks: first 24 of 33

1. 00 - Introduction — 4:27
2. 01 - Dialogue I — 7:32
3. 02 - Dialogue II — 7:22
4. 03 - Dialogue III — 9:55
5. 04 - Dialogue IV — 9:29
6. 05 - Dialogue V — 9:49
7. 06 - Dialogue VI — 9:32
8. 07 - Dialogue VII — 8:32
9. 08 - Dialogue VIII — 11:26
10. 09 - Dialogue IX — 9:05
11. 10 - Dialogue X — 7:01
12. 11 - Dialogue XI — 8:39
13. 12 - Dialogue XII — 11:00
14. 13 - Dialogue XIII — 10:46
15. 14 - Dialogue XIV — 32:39
16. 15 - Dialogue XV — 10:16
17. 16 - Dialogue XVI — 7:27
18. 17 - Dialogue XVII — 18:24
19. 18 - Dialogue XVIII — 28:13
20. 19 - Dialogue XIX — 13:47
21. 20 - Dialogue XX — 15:05
22. 21 - Dialogue XXI — 10:43
23. 22 - Dialogue XXII — 11:47
24. 23 - Dialogue XXIII — 20:53

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