Eighteen Months' Imprisonment: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Eighteen Months' Imprisonment, credited to Donald Shaw, 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 Eighteen Months' Imprisonment by Donald Shaw. Read in English by Lee Smalley This is an absorbing memoir of an inmate's experiences and impressions while in a London prison. He describes himself as "a man of education and worldly experience" and weighing "19 stone 13 lbs" (279 lbs), a stone being 14 lbs, at the beginning of his imprisonment but not upon his release. The author writes with a reporter's keen perception and a talented novelist's ability to engage and at times amuse the reader. - Summary by Lee Smalley

Recording facts

• Recording title: Eighteen Months' Imprisonment
• Author credits: Donald Shaw
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 28
• Listed recording duration: 7:15:35

Catalogue topics

• prison experiences

Opening tracks: first 24 of 28

1. 01 - My Arrest — 13:13
2. 02 - The House of Detention — 9:51
3. 03 - “Settling Down” — 11:49
4. 04 - “Prison Fare” — 13:18
5. 05 - Georgina — 8:14
6. 06 - Bow Street — 7:06
7. 07 - Newgate — 15:42
8. 08 - The Scaffold — 9:55
9. 09 - A Private Execution — 15:57
10. 10 - “Newgate Etiquette” — 12:09
11. 11 - The Titled Convict — 18:21
12. 12 - The Central Criminal Court — 10:49
13. 13 - “Corpulency” — 20:01
14. 14 - Coldbath Fields — 25:59
15. 15 - “Oakum” Let Us Sing — 39:27
16. 16 - The Visiting Justices — 14:33
17. 17 - Prison Trades — 17:52
18. 18 - The Outer World — 11:40
19. 19 - The Convalescent Ward — 24:10
20. 20 - Criminal Lunatics — 9:49
21. 21 - Prison Celebrities — 16:47
22. 22 - The Tread-Wheel — 13:41
23. 23 - Gardening — 12:09
24. 24 - The Church Militant in Prison — 19:44

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