Father and Son: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Father and Son, credited to Edmund Gosse, 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 Father and Son by Edmund Gosse. Father and Son (1907) is a memoir by poet and critic Edmund Gosse, which he subtitled "a study of two temperaments." The book describes Edmund's early years in an exceptionally devout Plymouth Brethren home. His mother, who dies early and painfully of breast cancer, is a writer of Christian tracts. His father, Philip Henry Gosse, is an influential, though largely self-taught, invertebrate zoologist and student of marine biology who, after his wife's death, takes Edmund to live in Devon. The book focuses on the father's response to the new evolutionary theories, especially those of his scientific colleague Charles Darwin, and Edmund's gradual rejection of both his father and his father's fundamentalist religion.[Summary from Wikipedia]

Recording facts

• Recording title: Father and Son
• Author credits: Edmund Gosse
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 13
• Listed recording duration: 8:58:30

Catalogue topics

• non fiction
• gosse
• memoirs
• religion

Track guide

1. 01 - Preface and Chapter 1 — 26:20
2. 02 - Chapter Two — 56:05
3. 03 - Chapter Three — 35:07
4. 04 - Chapter Four — 42:03
5. 05 - Chapter Five — 38:28
6. 06 - Chapter Six — 38:27
7. 07 - Chapter Seven — 38:03
8. 08 - Chapter Eight — 41:34
9. 09 - Chapter Nine — 42:51
10. 10 - Chapter Ten — 39:18
11. 11 - Chapter Eleven — 38:09
12. 12 - Chapter Twelve — 58:35
13. 13 - Epilogue — 43:33

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