Facts You Should Know about the Classics: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Facts You Should Know about the Classics, credited to Joseph Martin McCabe, 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 Facts You Should Know about the Classics by Joseph Martin McCabe. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Joseph McCabe, a prolific Catholic writer, here gives us a brief overview of classic literature from the ancient and Greek classics through Shakespeare and modern American classics. It is limited in scope, but this is a useful survey. This is Number 109 in The Little Blue Book series edited by E. Haldeman-Julius - Summary by Larry Wilson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Facts You Should Know about the Classics
• Author credits: Joseph Martin McCabe
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 1:51:30

Catalogue topics

• Shakespeare
• Cervantes
• Roman Literature
• classics
• American Literature
• renaissance
• French literature
• Voltaire

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 2:01
2. 01 - Classics of the Ancient World — 4:39
3. 02 - Greek Literature — 15:08
4. 03 - Roman Literature — 13:22
5. 04 - Early Christian Classics — 3:36
6. 05 - Classics of the Middle Ages — 1:11
7. 06 - Arab and Persian Writers — 2:18
8. 07 - Dante and the Middle Ages — 4:20
9. 08 - Heralds of the Renaissance — 2:50
10. 09 - The New Age in Italy and France — 10:12
11. 10 - Cervantes and the New Spain — 2:23
12. 11 - Shakespeare and the English Rebirth — 14:11
13. 12 - Classics of the Modern Period — 2:02
14. 13 - Voltaire and French Classics — 7:47
15. 14 - Germany, Russia and Scandinavia — 7:54
16. 15 - Modern English Writers — 10:03
17. 16 - American Classics — 7:34

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