Miscellaneous Essays: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Miscellaneous Essays, credited to Thomas de Quincey, 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 Miscellaneous Essays, by Thomas de Quincey. The Hunter Thompson of the 19th Century, de Quincey is best known for his Confessions of an English Opium Eater (an activity shared with his hero, Samuel Coleridge, much to Wordsworth’s dismay). However, de Quincey’s literary genius is best captured in his essays, and, according to Wikipedia: His immediate influence extended to Edgar Allan Poe, Fitz Hugh Ludlow and Charles Baudelaire, but even major 20th century writers such as Jorge Luis Borges admired and claimed to be partly influenced by his work. (Summary by Ticktockman)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Miscellaneous Essays
• Author credits: Thomas de Quincey
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 8:12:34

Catalogue topics

• de quincey
• essays

Track guide

1. 01 - On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth — 15:09
2. 02 - On Murder, Considered As One Of The Fine Arts, Part I — 15:10
3. 03 - On Murder, Considered As One Of The Fine Arts, Part II — 27:16
4. 04 - On Murder, Considered As One Of The Fine Arts, Part III — 27:33
5. 05 - Second Paper On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts — 42:02
6. 06 - Joan of Arc, Part I — 30:10
7. 07 - Joan of Arc, Part II — 20:35
8. 08 - Joan of Arc, Part III — 23:18
9. 09 - Joan of Arc, Part IV — 25:33
10. 10 - The English Mail-coach; Or, The Glory Of Motion, Part I — 53:59
11. 11 - The English Mail-coach; Or, The Glory Of Motion, Part II — 21:40
12. 12 - Vision of Sudden Death, Part I — 46:32
13. 13 - Vision of Sudden Death, Part II — 25:54
14. 14 - Dinner, Real, and Reputed, Part I — 34:34
15. 15 - Dinner, Real, and Reputed, Part II — 28:36
16. 16 - Dinner, Real, and Reputed, Part III — 28:57
17. 17 - Dinner, Real, and Reputed, Part IV — 25:41

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