Reveries of a Bachelor: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Reveries of a Bachelor, credited to Ik Marvel, 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 Reveries of a Bachelor by Ik Marvel. Read in English by Lee Smalley Reveries of a Bachelor, or A Book of the Heart, is a novel by American author Donald Grant Mitchell published under the pseudonym Ik Marvel. Paul, the protagonist, vividly and emotionally recalls his life and loves as he sits by his fireplace smoking a cigar, his old dog sleeping at his feet. He muses on boyhood, the country lifestyle and travel, but especially on the young women he knew, or perhaps imagines he knew, through the years. The first two reveries were originally serialized in a magazine, and subsequently all four were published in book format. A bestseller, it was one of poet Emily Dickinson's favorite books. ( Lee Smalley)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Reveries of a Bachelor
• Author credits: Ik Marvel
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 27
• Listed recording duration: 6:51:33

Catalogue topics

• travel
• marriage
• bachelorhood
• country life-style
• day-dreaming

Opening tracks: first 24 of 27

1. 01 - Preface and FIRST REVERIE, Over a Wood Fire — 9:46
2. 02 - Part 1 Smoke, Signifying Doubt — 14:25
3. 03 - Part 2 Blaze, Signifying Cheer — 10:11
4. 04 - Part 3 Ashes, Signifying Desolation — 19:55
5. 05 - SECOND REVERIE, By a City Grate — 11:23
6. 06 - Part 1 Sea-Coal — 28:49
7. 07 - Part 2 Anthracite — 25:16
8. 08 - THIRD REVERIE, Over His Cigar and Part 1 Lighted With a Coal — 24:28
9. 09 - Part 2 With a Wisp of Paper — 21:34
10. 10 - Part 3 Lighted With a Match — 20:28
11. 11 - FOURTH REVERIE, Morning, Noon and Evening, Preface — 11:59
12. 12 - Section 1 Part 1 Morning — 14:30
13. 13 - Part 2 School Days — 16:38
14. 14 - Part 3 The Sea — 13:00
15. 15 - Part 4 The Fatherland — 14:13
16. 16 - Part 5 A Roman Girl — 15:24
17. 17 - Part 6 The Apenines — 12:55
18. 18 - Part 7 Enrica — 12:26
19. 19 - Section 2 Part 1 Noon -- Which is the Present and Part 2 Early Friends — 15:31
20. 20 - Part 3 School Revisited — 8:39
21. 21 - Part 4 College — 10:55
22. 22 - Part 5 The Packet of Bella — 14:03
23. 23 - Section 3 Part 1 Evening -- Which Is the Future — 7:00
24. 24 - Part 2 Carry — 13:31

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