Hope: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Hope, credited to William Dean Howells, 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 volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Hope, by William Dean Howells.This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 7, 2019. Read in English by Bruce Kachuk; ChadH94; David Lawrence; dfrakk; Garth Burton; Graham Scott; Ian King; KHand; KevinS; Lee Ann Howlett; Michele Fry; Nemo; rumpledpoetry; Rebecca Zimmerman; tovarisch and William Allan Jones. A short, vivid seafaring poem that holds out hope for an afterlife, wonderfully crafted by William Dean Howells, an American novelist, literary critic, poet and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, as well as for his own prolific writings (Summary by Michele Fry and Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Hope
• Author credits: William Dean Howells
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 20:15

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• nature
• philosophy

Track guide

1. 01 - Hope - Read by BK — 1:21
2. 02 - Hope - Read by CJPH — 1:06
3. 03 - Hope - Read by DL — 1:15
4. 04 - Hope - Read by FD — 1:14
5. 05 - Hope - Read by GB — 1:22
6. 06 - Hope - Read by GRS — 1:19
7. 07 - Hope - Read by IK — 1:20
8. 08 - Hope - Read by KJH — 1:05
9. 09 - Hope - Read by KS — 1:11
10. 10 - Hope - Read by LAH — 1:18
11. 11 - Hope - Read by MTF — 1:22
12. 12 - Hope - Read by NR — 1:16
13. 13 - Hope - Read by RP — 1:02
14. 14 - Hope - Read by RZ — 1:23
15. 15 - Hope - Read by VB — 1:22
16. 16 - Hope - Read by WJ — 1:19

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