Oh, For a Home of Rest!: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Oh, For a Home of Rest!, credited to Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney, 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 15 recordings of Oh, For a Home of Rest! by Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 15, 2017. Read in English by Algy Pug; Bev J Stevens; Bruce Kachuk; David Lawrence; argonant; Eva Davis; Jason in Panama; Lee Ann Howlett; Matthew Datcher; Nick J. Gold; Peter Thomlinson; Scotty Smith; Tomas Peter; tovarisch and The Voice before the Void. Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney was a Quaker minister who, when her husband Joseph John Gurney died in 1847, continued the labours of a traveling minister. She corresponded with Abraham Lincoln, who was found to have a two year old letter from Eliza, carefully “treasured up” by him in his breast pocket when assassinated. ( David Lawrence)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Oh, For a Home of Rest!
• Author credits: Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 15
• Listed recording duration: 25:14

Catalogue topics

• philosophy
• religious
• rest

Track guide

1. 01 - Oh, For a Home of Rest! - Read by ALP — 1:35
2. 02 - Oh, For a Home of Rest! - Read by BJS — 1:34
3. 03 - Oh, For a Home of Rest! - Read by BK — 2:06
4. 04 - Oh, For a Home of Rest! - Read by DL — 1:29
5. 05 - Oh, For a Home of Rest! - Read by DPS — 1:16
6. 06 - Oh, For a Home of Rest! - Read by ED — 1:46
7. 07 - Oh, For a Home of Rest! - Read by JCB — 1:20
8. 08 - Oh, For a Home of Rest! - Read by LAH — 1:38
9. 09 - Oh, For a Home of Rest! - Read by MSD — 1:22
10. 10 - Oh, For a Home of Rest! - Read by NJG — 1:36
11. 11 - Oh, For a Home of Rest! - Read by PT — 1:43
12. 12 - Oh, For a Home of Rest! - Read by SS — 1:46
13. 13 - Oh, For a Home of Rest! - Read by TP — 1:31
14. 14 - Oh, For a Home of Rest! - Read by VB — 1:42
15. 15 - Oh, For a Home of Rest! - Read by VBV — 2:50

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