Pitt: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Pitt, credited to Archibald Primrose, 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 Pitt by Archibald Primrose. Read in English by Pamela Nagami Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, liberal prime minister (1894-1895), wrote this short biography of William Pitt, the Younger (1759-1806), the controversial young prime minister who led Great Britain during the terrible trial of the Napoleonic Wars. Lord Rosebery writes: "From the dead eighteenth century his figure still faces us with a majesty of loneliness and courage. There may have been men both abler and greater than he, though it is not easy to cite them; but in all history there is no more patriotic spirit, none more intrepid, and none more pure." (Pamela Nagami)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Pitt
• Author credits: Archibald Primrose
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 22
• Listed recording duration: 9:30:05

Catalogue topics

• William Pitt
• napoleon
• English History
• Lord Nelson
• george iii
• charles james fox
• william wilberforce
• duke of wellington

Track guide

1. 01 - Ch. 1, Pt.1: Youth — 24:17
2. 02 - Ch. 1, Pt. 2: Youth — 19:44
3. 03 - Ch. 2: Shelburne and the Coalition — 37:57
4. 04 - Ch. 3, Pt. 1: Accession to Power — 21:48
5. 05 - Ch. 3, Pt. 2: Accession to Power — 21:02
6. 06 - Ch. 4: First Years of Administration — 32:06
7. 07 - Ch. 5: Warren Hastings and the Regency — 26:40
8. 08 - Ch. 6, Pt. 1: The French Revolution — 20:33
9. 09 - Ch. 6, Pt. 2: The French Revolution — 21:07
10. 10 - Ch. 7: The Shadow of the French Revolution — 25:56
11. 11 - Ch. 8: War — 35:45
12. 12 - Ch. 9: Pitt as a War Minister — 25:57
13. 13 - Ch. 10: Domestic Policy — 21:37
14. 14 - Ch. 11, Pt.1: Ireland — 32:17
15. 15 - Ch. 11, Pt. 2: Ireland — 28:26
16. 16 - Ch. 12, Pt. 1: Pitt and Wellesley — 23:03
17. 17 - Ch. 12, Pt. 2: Pitt and Wellesley — 19:33
18. 18 - Ch. 13, Pt. 1: Fall of the Government — 25:35
19. 19 - Ch. 13, Pt. 2: Fall of the Government — 21:23
20. 20 - Ch. 14: The End — 31:24
21. 21 - Ch. 15, Pt.1: Character and Position of Pitt — 28:30
22. 22 - Ch. 15, Pt. 2: Character and Position of Pitt — 25:24

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