In The Workhouse: Christmas Day: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

In The Workhouse: Christmas Day, credited to George R. Sims, 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 2 recordings of In The Workhouse: Christmas Day by George Robert Sims. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 29, 2017 Read in English by Greg Giordano and Matthew Datcher. George R. Sims was a journalist of the Victorian era who was mostly concerned with social reforms. He was very interested in the life of the poor. This is a dramatic monologue by an inmate at a workhouse, exposing the hypocrisy of the law. A vivid ballad which you would not be able to resist. - Summary by Stav Nisser.

Recording facts

• Recording title: In The Workhouse: Christmas Day
• Author credits: George R. Sims
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 2
• Listed recording duration: 15:20

Catalogue topics

• workhouse
• dramatic monolog
• christmas
• poverty
• death

Track guide

1. 01 - In The Workhouse: Christmas Day - Read by GG — 8:42
2. 02 - In The Workhouse: Christmas Day - Read by MSD — 6:38

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