Little Poems in Prose: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Little Poems in Prose, credited to Charles Baudelaire, 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 Poems in Prose by Charles Baudelaire. Read in English by Ben Tucker. Noted macabre poet Charles Baudelaire later in life wrote this collection of brief sketches, what he deemed "little poems in prose". He thus employs his rich, romanticist skills in service of creating dream-like passages of ethereal beauty and dark turns of fate. His words may be both kind and cruel in turns but is always entrancing. Also included is an extensive biography of Baudelaire by James Huneker. (Summary by Ben Tucker)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Little Poems in Prose
• Author credits: Charles Baudelaire
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 19
• Listed recording duration: 1:57:56

Catalogue topics

• prose poems
• sketches
• dream-like

Track guide

1. 00 - Charles Baudelaire by James Huneker — 57:20
2. 01 - The Stranger — 1:05
3. 02 - Every Man His Chimæra — 2:23
4. 03 - Venus and the Fool — 2:03
5. 04 - Intoxication — 1:25
6. 05 - The Gifts of the Moon — 2:36
7. 06 - The Invitation to the Voyage — 5:46
8. 07 - What is Truth? — 1:45
9. 08 - Already! — 3:08
10. 09 - The Double Chamber — 5:50
11. 10 - At One O'Clock in the Morning — 3:00
12. 11 - The Confiteor of the Artist — 2:10
13. 12 - The Thyrsus — 3:26
14. 13 - The Marksman — 1:34
15. 14 - The Shooting-Range and the Cemetery — 2:21
16. 15 - The Desire to Paint — 2:30
17. 16 - The Glass-Vendor — 5:53
18. 17 - The Widows — 6:31
19. 18 - The Temptations; or, Eros, Plutus, and Glory — 7:11

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