Plan and Preface to a Dictionary of English: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Plan and Preface to a Dictionary of English by Samuel Johnson: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 4 original MP3 tracks, 2:22:26 running time and a link to listen.
Plan and Preface to a Dictionary of English, credited to Samuel Johnson, 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 A Plan and Preface to a Dictionary of English by Samuel Johnson. Read by Denny Sayers. The published dictionary was a huge book: with pages nearly 1½ feet tall and 20 inches wide, it contained 42,773 words; it also sold for the huge price of £4/10s. ($400?). It would be years before “Johnson’s Dictionary”, as it came to be known, would ever turn a profit; authors’ royalities being unknown at that time, Johnson, once his contract to deliver the book was fulfilled, received no further monies connected to the book. Johnson, once again a freelance writer, albeit now a famous one, faced a grim hand-to-mouth existence; however, in July 1762 the twenty-four year old King George III granted Johnson an annual pension of £300. While not making Johnson rich, it allowed him a modest yet comfortable independence for the remaining thirty years of his life. (Summary from Wikipedia)
Recording facts
- Recording title: Plan and Preface to a Dictionary of English
- Author credits: Samuel Johnson
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 4
- Listed recording duration: 2:22:26
Catalogue topics
- non-fiction
- language
- history
Track guide
- 01 Plan of an English Dictionary - Part 1 — 33:14
- 02 Plan of an English Dictionary - Part 2 — 27:40
- 03 Preface to the Dictionary - Part 1 — 35:24
- 04 Preface to the Dictionary - Part 2 — 46:08
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