Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets, credited to Edward Lear, 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 NONSENSE SONGS, STORIES,BOTANY AND ALPHABETS, by EDWARD LEAR. Read by Adrian Praetzellis. A selection of nonsense poems, songs (not sung!), stories, and miscellaneous strangeness. The work includes the "Owl and the Pussycat" and a recipe for Amblongus Pie, which begins "Take 4 pounds (say 4½ pounds) of fresh ablongusses and put them in a small pipkin." Edward Lear was an English writer, poet, cat-lover, and illustrator (his watercolours are beautiful). This recording celebrates the 200th anniversary of Lear's birth. (Summary by Adrian Praetzellis)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets
• Author credits: Edward Lear
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 4
• Listed recording duration: 1:19:10

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• humour
• children
• poetry

Track guide

1. 1 - Nonsense Songs — 22:12
2. 2 - Nonsense Stories — 21:14
3. 3 - Nonsense Stories — 16:37
4. 4 - Nonsense Cookery and Alphabets — 19:07

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