Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great, credited to Elbert Hubbard, 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 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great, by Elbert Hubbard. Read in English by Mike Pelton; Lynne Thompson; Garth Burton; ToddHW; Luke Sartor; KHand; Denise Nordell; Erin Schellhase; TriciaG. Elbert Hubbard visits the homes of authors, politicians, poets, philosophers and other prestigious people. If they are still living he speaks with them about their work. If they are dead he reflects on how their surroundings may have influenced them. These short essays are part biography, part interview and part pontification of Hubbard's opinion of the subject and their oeuvre. In this volume he reflects on his own life, as well as on those of George Eliot, Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, William E. Gladstone, J.M.W. Turner, Jonathan Swift, Walt Whitman, Victor Hugo, William Wordsworth, William M. Thackeray, Charles Dickens, Oliver Goldsmith, William Shakespeare and Thomas A. Edison. This is Volume 1 in a series of 14 volumes on Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great. Summary by Lucy Perry.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great
• Author credits: Elbert Hubbard
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 32
• Listed recording duration: 8:04:45

Catalogue topics

• essays
• biographies
• famous people

Opening tracks: first 24 of 32

1. 00 - Publisher's Preface — 6:00
2. 01 - Autobiographical, Part 1 — 17:33
3. 02 - Autobiographical, Part 2 — 16:30
4. 03 - Autobiographical, Part 3 — 15:21
5. 04 - George Eliot, Part 1 — 11:25
6. 05 - George Eliot, Part 2 — 15:09
7. 06 - Thomas Carlyle, Part 1 — 16:53
8. 07 - Thomas Carlyle, Part 2 — 13:03
9. 08 - John Ruskin, Part 1 — 8:14
10. 09 - John Ruskin, Part 2 — 12:57
11. 10 - William E. Gladstone, Part 1 — 14:38
12. 11 - William E. Gladstone, Part 2 — 13:31
13. 12 - J.M.W. Turner, Part 1 — 14:55
14. 13 - J.M.W. Turner, Part 2 — 16:16
15. 14 - Jonathan Swift, Part 1 — 14:24
16. 15 - Jonathan Swift, Part 2 — 13:59
17. 16 - Walt Whitman, Part 1 — 14:00
18. 17 - Walt Whitman, Part 2 — 22:01
19. 18 - Victor Hugo, Part 1 — 14:29
20. 19 - Victor Hugo, Part 2 — 18:51
21. 20 - William Wordsworth, Part 1 — 11:51
22. 21 - William Wordsworth, Part 2 — 13:58
23. 22 - William M. Thackeray, Part 1 — 13:01
24. 23 - William M. Thackeray, Part 2 — 11:27

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