Letters to the Joneses: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Letters to the Joneses, credited to Josiah Gilbert Holland, 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 Letters to the Joneses by Josiah Gilbert Holland. Read in English by Keith Salis. We watch our news and live our lives and see many things wrong with society today. It is easy for us to claim that things were better in "The Good Old Days." It appears Solomon was correct when he said, "There is nothing new under the Sun," because Timothy Titcomb tackles many of the same societal ills in 1863 that we do today. In Letters to the Joneses, we are privy to "letters" that a former Schoolmaster writes to various citizens of Jonesville. Each one deals with his pithy response to a fabricated individual who acts as a model of a type of person who is troubling himself and much of the town. In his letters, we can find many of our own acquaintances and even ourselves. This would be fantasitc reading for young people today to learn what traits to avoid to help their own Jonesville to function as well as possible. (Summary by Keith Salis)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Letters to the Joneses
• Author credits: Josiah Gilbert Holland
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 8:16:21

Catalogue topics

• satire
• humor
• social commentary

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 00 - Preface — 3:05
2. 01 - First Letter - To Deacon Solomon Jones — 19:59
3. 02 - Second Letter - To Mrs. Martha Jones — 20:10
4. 03 - Third Letter - To F. Mendelssohn Jones — 23:36
5. 04 - Fourth Letter - To Hans Sachs Jones — 18:55
6. 05 - Fifth Letter - To Edward Payson Jones — 22:04
7. 06 - Sixth Letter - To Mrs. Jessy Bell Jones — 20:07
8. 07 - Seventh Letter - To Salathiel Fogg Jones, Spiritualist — 23:14
9. 08 - Eighth Letter - To Bejamin Franklin Jones, Mechanic — 19:15
10. 09 - Ninth Letter - To Washington Allston Jones — 21:12
11. 10 - Tenth Letter - To Rev. Jeremiah Jones, D.D. — 22:04
12. 11 - Eleventh Letter - To Stephen Girard Jones — 20:07
13. 12 - Twelfth Letter - To Noel Jones — 20:25
14. 13 - Thirteenth Letter - To Rufus Choate Jones, Lawyer — 22:01
15. 14 - Fourteenth Letter - To Mrs. Royal Purple Jones — 22:37
16. 15 - Fifteenth Letter - To Mrs. Felicia Hemans Jones — 19:41
17. 16 - Sixteenth Letter - To Jehu Jones — 19:30
18. 17 - Seventeenth Letter - To Thomas Arnold Jones, Schoolmaster — 20:47
19. 18 - Eighteenth Letter - To Mrs. Rosa Hommin Jones — 19:38
20. 19 - Ninteenth Letter - To Jefferson Davis Jones, Politician — 23:03
21. 20 - Twentieth Letter - To Dr. Benjamin Rush Jones — 22:12
22. 21 - Twenty-First Letter - To Diogenes Jones — 15:45
23. 22 - Twenty-Second Letter - To Saul M. Jones — 17:54
24. 23 - Twenty-Third Letter - To John Smith Jones — 19:54

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