Longings for Home: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Longings for Home, credited to Walt Whitman, 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 13 recordings of Longings for Home by Walt Whitman. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 26, 2012. Born on Long Island, Whitman worked as a journalist, a teacher, a government clerk, and – in addition to publishing his poetry – was a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War. Early in his career, he also produced a temperance novel, Franklin Evans (1842). Whitman's major work, Leaves of Grass, was first published in 1855 with his own money. The work was an attempt at reaching out to the common person with an American epic. He continued expanding and revising it until his death in 1892. After a stroke towards the end of his life, he moved to Camden, New Jersey, where his health further declined. He died at age 72 and his funeral became a public spectacle. ( Summary from Wikipedia )

Recording facts

• Recording title: Longings for Home
• Author credits: Walt Whitman
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 13
• Listed recording duration: 49:10

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• adventure
• history
• memoirs
• nature

Track guide

1. Longings for Home - Read by BRIT — 4:00
2. Longings for Home - Read by CAM — 4:23
3. Longings for Home - Read by CC — 3:35
4. Longings for Home - Read by CMP — 4:38
5. Longings for Home - Read by DL — 3:18
6. Longings for Home - Read by FS — 3:30
7. Longings for Home - Read by GC — 3:43
8. Longings for Home - Read by JCM — 3:12
9. Longings for Home - Read by JM2 — 3:55
10. Longings for Home - Read by LB — 4:03
11. Longings for Home - Read by LAW — 2:59
12. Longings for Home - Read by RN — 4:35
13. Longings for Home - Read by TJD — 3:25

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