Harlem Shadows: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Harlem Shadows, credited to Claude McKay, 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 Harlem Shadows by Claude McKay. Read in English by Denise Ray An award winning Jamaican poet who writes passionately about his birth home and his adopted home, USA. Claude McKay vividly describes family life, love, hate, work, and social life. The reader obtains a strong sense of black life through his colorful and emotional poetry. . - Summary by Denise Ray

Recording facts

• Recording title: Harlem Shadows
• Author credits: Claude McKay
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 76
• Listed recording duration: 2:04:53

Catalogue topics

• harlem renaissance
• african american poet

Opening tracks: first 24 of 76

1. 00 - Introduction — 13:57
2. 01 - Author's Word — 4:37
3. 02 - The Easter Flower — 1:08
4. 03 - To One Coming North — 1:26
5. 04 - America — 1:13
6. 05 - Alfonso, Dressing to Wait at Table — 1:29
7. 06 - The Tropics in New York — 1:13
8. 07 - Flame Heart — 2:22
9. 08 - Home Thoughts — 1:29
10. 09 - On Broadway — 1:16
11. 10 - The Barrier — 0:53
12. 11 - Adolescence — 1:07
13. 12 - Homing Swallows — 1:06
14. 13 - The City's Love — 0:58
15. 14 - North and South — 1:37
16. 15 - Wild May — 1:16
17. 16 - The Plateau — 1:23
18. 17 - After the Winter — 1:04
19. 18 - The Wild Goat — 0:50
20. 19 - Harlem Shadows — 1:48
21. 20 - The White City — 1:15
22. 21 - The Spanish Needle — 1:24
23. 22 - My Mother — 2:07
24. 23 - In Bondage — 1:17

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