My Days and Dreams: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

My Days and Dreams, credited to Edward Carpenter, 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 My Days and Dreams by Edward Carpenter. Read in English by Sue Anderson Hard to imagine now, but there have been times and places where just wearing sandals could get you labeled as being in rebellion against established society. Two such places were Berkeley, California in the early 1960s and Millthorpe, England in the 1880s. Millthorpe was home to Edward Carpenter (1844-1929), an English socialist poet, philosopher, and activist who abandoned his upper crust life and university sinecure to grow market vegetables and handcraft sandals for a living. Carpenter’s search for the well-lived life, his passions and concerns resonate uncannily with the mood of long ago Berkeley. In this frank memoir, Carpenter explores how he “escaped from the domination of Civilization in its two most fatal and much-detested forms, respectability and cheap intellectualism.” - Summary by Sue Anderson

Recording facts

• Recording title: My Days and Dreams
• Author credits: Edward Carpenter
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 24
• Listed recording duration: 12:01:09

Catalogue topics

• history of english socialism

Track guide

1. 01 - Preface. Brighton, Part 1 — 23:53
2. 02 - Brighton, Part 2 — 32:58
3. 03 - My Parents — 20:13
4. 04 - Cambridge, Part 1 — 36:35
5. 05 - Cambridge, Part 2 — 42:31
6. 06 - University Extension and Northern Towns — 46:07
7. 07 - Bradway amd Towards Democracy — 23:33
8. 08 - Manual Work and Market-Gardening — 34:45
9. 09 - Sheffield and Socialism. Addendum to Ch. Vii. — 35:01
10. 10 - Trade and Philosophy — 23:48
11. 11 - Millthorpe and Household Life, Part 1 — 30:18
12. 12 - Millthorpe and Household Life, Part 2 — 18:36
13. 13 - Millthorpiana, Part 1 — 22:04
14. 14 - Millthorpiana, Part 2 — 31:16
15. 15 - The Story of My Books, Part 1 — 25:39
16. 16 - The Story of My Books, Part 2 — 25:19
17. 17 - Personalities - I, Part 1 — 24:07
18. 18 - Personalities - I, Part 2 — 32:31
19. 19 - Personalities - II, Part 1 — 27:45
20. 20 - Personalities - II, Part 2 — 20:09
21. 21 - London and Lectures — 35:05
22. 22 - Translations and Translators — 27:13
23. 23 - Rural Conditions — 45:58
24. 24 - How the World Looks at Seventy — 35:45

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