Essays on Modern Novelists: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Essays on Modern Novelists, credited to William Lyon Phelps, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Essays on Modern Novelists by William Lyon Phelps. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. A collection of essays on 19th century novelists, both famous ones and those largely forgotten now. Among the writers presented most wrote in English, but three foreign authors are also discussed. Phelps taught a course on novels at a university and he added to those biographical essays some of his ideas about the importance of novels in the process of teaching about literature. (Summary by Piotr Nater)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Essays on Modern Novelists
• Author credits: William Lyon Phelps
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 15
• Listed recording duration: 6:38:47

Catalogue topics

• nonfiction
• authors
• writers
• novelists

Track guide

1. 01 - WILLIAM DE MORGAN — 49:56
2. 02 - THOMAS HARDY — 38:05
3. 03 - WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS — 37:59
4. 04 - BJÖRNSTJERNE BJÖRNSON — 25:14
5. 05 - MARK TWAIN — 26:09
6. 06 - HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ — 25:10
7. 07 - HERMANN SUDERMANN — 36:42
8. 08 - ALFRED OLLIVANT — 22:43
9. 09 - ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON — 30:29
10. 10 - MRS. HUMPHRY WARD — 29:24
11. 11 - RUDYARD KIPLING — 32:10
12. 12 - ''LORNA DOONE'' — 21:24
13. 13 - APPENDIX A NOVELS AS A UNIVERSITY STUDY — 9:44
14. 14 - APPENDIX B THE TEACHER'S ATTITUDE TOWARD CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE — 8:38
15. 15 - APPENDIX C TWO POEMS — 5:00

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