Diary of a Suicide: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Diary of a Suicide, credited to Wallace E. Baker, 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 Diary of a Suicide by Wallace E. Baker. Read in English by Lee Smalley “Mr. B. Russell Herts, c/o International Magazine, New York City. Under separate cover I am sending you a record of a young man who is about to commit suicide. My only object is that it may help…to ease the way for some who come after…. I do not sign this, but you may verify my death by communicating with Mr. ——, whom I am writing to-day, so that he may look after my effects in New York.” The body of a well-dressed young man was found off Manhattan Beach, Sept. 28, 1913. In his pockets a torn photograph of Strindberg and receipts for three registered letters were found. These receipts were traced to Mr. Herts and to friends in Toronto, one of whom identified the body on Oct. 2d as that of Wallace E. Baker. –From the book’s Forward.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Diary of a Suicide
• Author credits: Wallace E. Baker
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 8
• Listed recording duration: 2:16:29

Catalogue topics

• diary
• suicide

Track guide

1. 01 - Part 01 — 15:40
2. 02 - Part 02 — 11:37
3. 03 - Part 03 — 18:48
4. 04 - Part 04 — 20:49
5. 05 - Part 05 — 17:38
6. 06 - Part 06 — 20:55
7. 07 - Part 07 — 19:38
8. 08 - Part 08 — 11:24

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Source and rights

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