From the Easy Chair Vol. 1: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
From the Easy Chair Vol. 1 by George William Curtis: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 27 original MP3 tracks, 4:09:22 running time and a link to listen.
From the Easy Chair Vol. 1, credited to George William Curtis, 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 From the Easy Chair Vol. 1 by George William Curtis. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. George William Curtis was a writer and public speaker. He was editor of Harper's Weekly and one of the founders of the American Republican party, and served Ulysses S. Grant; although he split from the party in the 1880s over the choice of presidential candidate. He was an original member of the New York Board of Education. This anthology of essays is the first of a three volume work, showing his broad knowledge and interest. - Summary by Lynne Thompson
Recording facts
- Recording title: From the Easy Chair Vol. 1
- Author credits: George William Curtis
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 27
- Listed recording duration: 4:09:22
Opening tracks: first 24 of 27
- 01 - Edward Everett in 1862 — 15:20
- 02 - At the Opera in 1864 — 6:46
- 03 - Emerson Lecturing — 7:18
- 04 - Shops and Shopping — 10:07
- 05 - Mrs. Grundy and the Cosmopolitan — 8:20
- 06 - Dickens Reading (1867) — 13:17
- 07 - Phillis — 7:17
- 08 - Thoreau and my Lady Cavaliere — 12:25
- 09 - Honestus at the Caucus — 12:48
- 10 - Thalberg and Other Pianists (1871) — 11:37
- 11 - Urbs and Rus — 10:23
- 12 - Rip Van Winkle — 6:49
- 13 - A Chinese Critic — 9:22
- 14 - Holiday Sauntering — 8:42
- 15 - Wendell Phillips at Harvard (1881) — 10:56
- 16 - Easter Bonnets — 6:13
- 17 - Jenny Lind — 13:43
- 18 - The Town — 5:35
- 19 - Sarah Shaw Russell — 6:47
- 20 - Street Music — 7:59
- 21 - A Little Dinner with Thackeray — 10:21
- 22 - Cecilia Playing — 10:08
- 23 - The Mannerless Sex — 8:51
- 24 - Robert Browning in Florence — 13:16
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