On Anything: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
On Anything by Hilaire Belloc: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 38 original MP3 tracks, 7:17:57 running time and a link to listen.
On Anything, credited to Hilaire Belloc, 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 On Anything, by Hilaire Belloc. Read by Ray Clare. "Long before I knew that the speech of men was misused by them and that they lied in the hearing of the gods perpetually in those early days through which all men have passed, during which one believes what one is told, an old and crusty woman of great wealth, to whom I was describing what I intended to do with life (which in those days seemed to me of infinite duration), said to me, ( You are building castles in Spain.' I was too much in awe of this woman not on account of the wealth, but on account of the crust to go further into the matter, but it seemed to me a very foolish thing to say, for I had never been to Spain, and I had nothing wherewith to build a castle and indeed such a project had never passed through my head.” -- Hilaire Belloc
Recording facts
- Recording title: On Anything
- Author credits: Hilaire Belloc
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 38
- Listed recording duration: 7:17:57
Catalogue topics
- belloc
Opening tracks: first 24 of 38
- 01 - On Building Castles in Spain — 10:20
- 02 - On Clay — 9:51
- 03 - On No Book — 6:25
- 04 - On Irony — 8:54
- 05 - On the Simplicity of Words — 11:09
- 06 - On Secluded Places — 11:21
- 07 - On People in Books — 13:42
- 08 - On the Effect of Time — 14:31
- 09 - On a Poet — 14:00
- 10 - On a Phrophet — 10:11
- 11 - On Believing — 10:29
- 12 - On the Air of the Dordogne — 9:23
- 13 - On the Sites of the Revolution — 9:28
- 14 - On a Secret Letter — 13:27
- 15 - On the Shadows — 9:46
- 16 - On the Canvasser — 11:12
- 17 - On the Abstracted Man — 11:11
- 18 - On the Method of History — 13:06
- 19 - On History in Travel — 10:59
- 20 - On the Traveller — 11:26
- 21 - On Milton — 11:22
- 22 - On Hans Christian Anderson — 8:35
- 23 - On the Christmas of 1808 — 7:49
- 24 - On Communications — 12:25
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