Rhyme? And Reason? (Version 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Rhyme? And Reason? (Version 2), credited to Lewis Carroll, 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 Rhyme? And Reason? (Version 2) by Lewis Carroll. Read in English by MichaelMaggs An 1883 selection of Lewis Carroll's satirical and comic verse. The collection ranges from the well-known and well-loved The Hunting Of The Snark, to lesser-known gems such as Phantasmagoria, a tale of the difficulties encountered by an inexperienced phantom in his first domestic haunting, and Hiawatha’s Photographing, a brilliant satire of Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha. (Michael Maggs)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Rhyme? And Reason? (Version 2)
• Author credits: Lewis Carroll
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 19
• Listed recording duration: 2:31:53

Track guide

1. 00 - [Dedication]: Inscribed to a Dear Child — 1:34
2. 01 - Phantasmagoria, in Seven Cantos — 36:53
3. 02 - Echoes — 1:01
4. 03 - A Sea Dirge — 2:51
5. 04 - Ye Carpette Knyghte — 1:08
6. 05 - Hiawatha's Photographing — 7:02
7. 06 - Melancholetta — 4:10
8. 07 - A Valentine — 2:29
9. 08 - The Three Voices — 18:41
10. 09 - Tèma Con Veriazióni — 2:45
11. 10 - A Game of Fives — 1:50
12. 11 - Poeta Fit, Non Nascitur — 5:18
13. 12 - Preface to The Hunting of the Snark — 5:11
14. 13 - The Hunting of the Snark, an Agony in Eight Fits — 36:24
15. 14 - Size and Tears — 2:36
16. 15 - Atalanta in Camden Town — 2:30
17. 16 - The Lang Coortin' — 7:29
18. 17 - Four Riddles — 8:52
19. 18 - Fame's Penny Trumpet — 3:09

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