Letters to Dead Authors: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Letters to Dead Authors, credited to Andrew Lang, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Letters to Dead Authors by Andrew Lang. Read in English by Brian Mansi; Wendy Almeida; Martin Geeson; Timothy Ferguson; Algy Pug; Michele Eaton; Greg Giordano; Eden Rea-Hedrick; Jacob Paul Starr; Leni With twenty two letters, addressed to various already deceased authors, Andrew Lang discusses literary subjects with his usual humour and acidity. The impulse for the writing of the letters came, almost as a joke, from the editor of the 'St. James's Gazette,' and sixteen of the letters collected in the volume appeared first in that journal. According to the author, "some of the Letters are written rather to suit the Correspondent than to express the writer's own taste or opinions"; in all of them, though, the reader will find the charming wit of their author. (Summary by Leni)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Letters to Dead Authors
• Author credits: Andrew Lang
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 22
• Listed recording duration: 4:36:41

Catalogue topics

• Epistles
• literary criticism

Track guide

1. 01 - To W. M. Thackeray — 9:35
2. 02 - To Charles Dickens — 13:26
3. 03 - To Pierre de Ronsard (Prince of Poets) — 16:29
4. 04 - To Herodotus — 12:00
5. 05 - Epistle to Mr. Alexander Pope — 10:12
6. 06 - To Lucian of Samosata — 11:41
7. 07 - To Maitre Francoys Rabelais — 13:23
8. 08 - To Jane Austen — 10:12
9. 09 - To Master Isaak Walton — 14:22
10. 10 - To M. Chapelain — 17:20
11. 11 - To Sir John Manndeville, Kt. — 12:51
12. 12 - To Alexandre Dumas — 9:47
13. 13 - To Theocritus — 14:54
14. 14 - To Edgar Allan Poe — 13:37
15. 15 - To Sir Walter Scott, Bart. — 11:22
16. 16 - To Eusebius of Caesarea — 16:09
17. 17 - To Percy Bysshe Shelley — 11:47
18. 18 - To Monsieur de Moliére, Valet de Chambre du Roi — 15:57
19. 19 - To Robert Burns — 11:15
20. 20 - To Lord Byron — 11:00
21. 21 - To Omar Kha'yya'm — 5:36
22. 22 - To Q. Horatius Flaccus — 13:46

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