Pagan Papers: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Pagan Papers, credited to Kenneth Grahame, 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 Pagan Papers by Kenneth Grahame. Read in English by Will Cooper; JudyDerby; Lynne Thompson; Steve Britton; Lisa Reichert; Brian Darby; Kathrine Engan; Fenman; Alimay; Joseph Tabler; Diana Schmidt We join our thoughtful author on a dreamy stroll at dusk through the English countryside, and listen to his nonchalant, slightly scattered musings on the human condition...everything from loafing about and old book collecting, to heavier topics like what is more valuable: memory or forgetfulness and can we connect back to nature, or is it too late to do so. All these ponderings, and more, are explored within. Published in 1898, this collection of essays is Kenneth Grahame's first complied work. His wry and witty humor, which later would be celebrated in his famous novel, The Wind in the Willows, shines through here. - Summary by Mary Kay.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Pagan Papers
• Author credits: Kenneth Grahame
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 2:28:31

Catalogue topics

• humor
• human condition
• Latin
• essays
• trains
• British literature
• roads
• the wind in the willows

Track guide

1. 01 - The Romance of the Road — 8:47
2. 02 - The Romance of the Rail — 6:47
3. 03 - Non Libri Sed Liberi — 9:01
4. 04 - Loafing — 11:09
5. 05 - Cheap Knowledge — 6:30
6. 06 - The Rural Pan: An April Essay — 7:01
7. 07 - Marginalia — 7:33
8. 08 - The Eternal Whither — 7:48
9. 09 - Deus Terminus — 6:31
10. 10 - Of Smoking — 10:30
11. 11 - An Autumn Encounter — 8:06
12. 12 - The White Poppy — 6:15
13. 13 - A Bohemian in Exile: A Reminiscence — 13:42
14. 14 - Justifiable Homicide — 7:32
15. 15 - The Fairy Wicket — 6:11
16. 16 - Aboard the Galley — 7:39
17. 17 - The Lost Centaur — 7:54
18. 18 - Orion — 9:35

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