Eleven years a drunkard: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Eleven years a drunkard, credited to Thomas Doner, 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 Eleven years a drunkard by Thomas Doner. Read in English by Curt Walton He tells of the shame, misery and pain which alcohol brought on him, and will bring to anyone whosoever be tempted by the pleasant feeling it produces at the time of drinking. It doesn't bring one home to shelter but drives them away. It leads one to forget the evil it brings and tempts one to pursue more for the pleasant feeling it produces. This "pleasant feeling" produces many murderers in our land. It doesn't push the sufferer to ask for help but to lie about the drinking. Once Satan has a foothold he wants an even tighter grasp. He exhorts - you boys, to learn this lesson, "If you do not take the first drink, you will not be tempted to take the second." And if you take the first drink do not take the second or the monster will have done its work and will surely lead you to a third and a fourth and to associate with the inmates of taverns until you are committed to prison, executed in the gallows, a cripple (like Doner) or to a drunkard's grave. Filth, drunkenness, crime and blasphemy, Doner writes, are the rewards for stepping in this Snare of the Devil. - Summary by Curt Walton

Recording facts

• Recording title: Eleven years a drunkard
• Author credits: Thomas Doner
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 5
• Listed recording duration: 1:29:03

Catalogue topics

• psychology
• biography
• autobiography
• alcoholism
• self-help

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 1:02
2. 01 - Chapter I — 7:44
3. 02 - Chapter II — 34:50
4. 03 - Chapter III — 23:37
5. 04 - Chapter IV — 21:50

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