Prayers and Meditations: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Prayers and Meditations, 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 Prayers and Meditations by Samuel Johnson. Read in English by Steven Watson The prayers and meditations of Samuel Johnson, published posthumously by George Strahan to whom Johnson had entrusted the manuscripts. Johnson had been writing these down for over forty years. They often show him at his most repentant, melancholy and fragile -- and the book was controversial because of it -- but they also show the goodness, sense and strength which has always characterised this great man. - Summary by Steven Watson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Prayers and Meditations
• Author credits: Samuel Johnson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 23
• Listed recording duration: 3:36:49

Catalogue topics

• religion
• Christianity
• prayer
• memoir
• autobiography
• prayers

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 11:43
2. 01 - 1738-50 — 7:05
3. 02 - 1752 — 8:01
4. 03 - 1753-56 — 9:07
5. 04 - 1757-69 — 11:39
6. 05 - 1760-62 — 5:33
7. 06 - 1764 — 11:36
8. 07 - 1765 — 6:55
9. 08 - 1766-67 — 11:07
10. 09 - 1768-69 — 10:58
11. 10 - 1770 — 12:04
12. 11 - 1771-72 — 14:16
13. 12 - 1773 — 12:15
14. 13 - 1774-75 — 9:14
15. 14 - 1776 — 6:03
16. 15 - 1777 — 10:12
17. 16 - 1778 — 7:33
18. 17 - 1779 — 8:04
19. 18 - 1780 — 4:40
20. 19 - 1781 — 11:53
21. 20 - 1782 — 12:03
22. 21 - 1783-84 — 6:55
23. 22 - Miscellaneous — 7:54

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