Imaginary Conversations: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Imaginary Conversations, credited to Walter Savage Landor, 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 Imaginary Conversations by Walter Savage Landor. Dramatically read in English by volunteer readers. This is a group of Imaginary Conversations by Walter Savage Landor. It is a series of dialogues of historical and mythical characters. Marcellus and Hannibal, Queen Elizabeth and Cecil, Peter the Great and Alexis, Louis XIV and Father La Chaise, Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn are just a few of the delights on offer. Plenty to choose from and some great reads. - Summary by Michele Eaton

Recording facts

• Recording title: Imaginary Conversations
• Author credits: Walter Savage Landor
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 36
• Listed recording duration: 12:17:30

Catalogue topics

• dialogs
• dialogues
• fictional

Opening tracks: first 24 of 36

1. 00 - Introduction by Havelock Ellis — 38:46
2. 01 - Marcellus and Hannibal — 11:01
3. 02 - Elizabeth and Cecil — 9:46
4. 03 - Tiberius and Vipsania — 9:02
5. 04 - Epictetus and Seneca — 8:51
6. 05 - Peter the Great and Alexis — 15:33
7. 06 - Louis XIV and Father La Chaise — 15:51
8. 07 - Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn — 16:49
9. 08 - Joseph Scaliger and Montaigne — 11:18
10. 09 - Boccaccio and Petrarca — 24:10
11. 10 - Metellus and Marius — 11:06
12. 11 - Bossuet and The Duchess De Fontanges — 15:51
13. 12 - John of Gaunt and Joanna of Kent — 9:16
14. 13 - Lady Lisle and Elizabeth Gaunt — 7:48
15. 14 - The Empress Catharine and Princess Dashkof — 14:17
16. 15 - Leofric and Godiva — 13:12
17. 16 - Essex and Spenser — 11:30
18. 17 - William Wallace and King Edward I — 13:44
19. 18 - Archbishop Boulter and Philip Savage — 21:55
20. 19 - Lord Bacon and Richard Hooker — 13:04
21. 20 - General Lacy and Cura Merino — 39:28
22. 21 - Oliver Cromwell and Walter Noble — 9:51
23. 22 - Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney — 9:58
24. 23 - Southey and Porson — 12:20

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