Pushing to the Front: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Pushing to the Front, credited to Orison Swett Marden, 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 Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924). Read in English by Luke Sartor. Published in 1894, this is the first book by the renowned inspirational author, Dr. Orison Swett Marden. Pushing to the Front is the product of many years of hard work, and marks a turning point in the life of Dr. Marden. He rewrote it following an accidental fire that brought the five-thousand-plus page manuscript to flames. It went on to become the most popular personal-development book of its time, and is a timeless classic in its genre. Filled with stories of success, triumph and the surmounting of difficulties, it is especially well-targeted at the adolescent or young adult. It is a book to inspire the reader towards a noble sense of integrity, a strong moral foundation, and solid, enduring self-discipline to let the reader put each foot forward as the leader they are meant to be. (Summary by Luke Sartor)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Pushing to the Front
• Author credits: Orison Swett Marden
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 67
• Listed recording duration: 33:18:17

Catalogue topics

• success
• leaders
• inspiration
• inspire
• leadership
• achieve
• achievement

Opening tracks: first 24 of 67

1. 00 - Foreword — 6:36
2. 01 - Chapter I: The Man and the Opportunity — 41:03
3. 02 - Chapter II: Wanted - a Man — 15:06
4. 03 - Chapter III: Boys with No Chance — 1:05:08
5. 04 - Chapter IV: The Country Boy — 24:47
6. 05 - Chapter V: Opportunities Where You Are — 23:42
7. 06 - Chapter VI: Possibilities in Spare Moments — 21:51
8. 07 - Chapter VII: How Poor Boys and Girls Go to College — 41:41
9. 08 - Chapter VIII: Your Opportunity Confronts You—What Will You Do with It? — 30:00
10. 09 - Chapter IX: Round Boys in Square Holes — 25:25
11. 10 - Chapter X: What Career? — 30:53
12. 11 - Chapter XI: Choosing a Vocation — 33:36
13. 12 - Chapter XII: Concentrated Energy — 26:33
14. 13 - Chapter XIII: The Triumphs of Enthusiasm — 33:38
15. 14 - Chapter XIV: On Time, Or, The Triumph of Promptness — 23:40
16. 15 - Chapter XV: What a Good Appearance Will Do — 23:51
17. 16 - Chapter XVI: Personality as a Success Asset — 30:32
18. 17 - Chapter XVII: If You Can Talk Well — 33:44
19. 18 - Chapter XVIII: A Fortune in Good Manners — 52:00
20. 19 - Chapter XIX: Self-Consciousness and Timidity Foes To Success — 13:16
21. 20 - Chapter XX: Tact or Common Sense — 30:08
22. 21 - Chapter XXI: Enamored of Accuracy — 33:42
23. 22 - Chapter XXII: Do It to a Finish — 46:45
24. 23 - Chapter XXIII: The Reward of Persistence — 35:57

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