Household Words Issue 7: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Household Words Issue 7, credited to Charles Dickens, 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 Household Words Issue 7 by Charles Dickens. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Household Words was an English weekly magazine edited by Charles Dickens in the 1850s. It took its name from the line in Shakespeare's Henry V: "Familiar in his mouth as household words." The subject matter was varied, including poetry, fiction, non-fiction and opinions. - Summary by LynneT

Recording facts

• Recording title: Household Words Issue 7
• Author credits: Charles Dickens
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 11
• Listed recording duration: 2:43:48

Track guide

1. 01 - The Fire Brigade of London — 52:12
2. 02 - Poetry in the Bye-Ways — 12:03
3. 03 - The Miner's Daughters -- A Tale of the Peak in Three Chapters. Chapter II Mill Life — 17:36
4. 04 - The Uses of Sorrow — 1:46
5. 05 - From the Raven in the Happy Family — 13:01
6. 06 - Illustrations of Cheapness -- Eggs — 16:11
7. 07 - Music in Humble Life — 17:51
8. 08 - A Paris Newspaper — 17:59
9. 09 - Lines by Robert Southey — 1:25
10. 10 - Short Cuts Across the Globe -- The Isthmus of Suez — 12:41
11. 11 - A Curious Epitaph — 1:03

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