Selected Essays: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Selected Essays, credited to Voltairine de Cleyre, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Selcted Essays, by Voltairine de Cleyre. Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) was, according to Emma Goldman, "the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced." Today she is not widely known as a consequence of her short life. De Cleyre was especially influenced by Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft and Clarence Darrow. After the hanging of the Haymarket protesters in 1887, she became an anarchist. "Till then I believed in the essential justice of the American law of trial by jury," she wrote in an autobiographical essay, "After that I never could." She was known as an excellent speaker and writer – in the opinion of biographer Paul Avrich, she was "a greater literary talent than any other American anarchist" – and as a tireless advocate for the anarchist cause, whose "religious zeal," according to Goldman, "stamped everything she did." (Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Selected Essays
• Author credits: Voltairine de Cleyre
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 22
• Listed recording duration: 12:27:12

Catalogue topics

• anarchism
• socialism
• politics
• essays

Track guide

1. 01 - The Dominant Idea — 41:52
2. 02 - Anarchism — 50:05
3. 03 - Anarchism and American Traditions — 40:59
4. 04 - Anarchism in Literature — 41:23
5. 05 - The Making of an Anarchist — 20:30
6. 06 - The 11th November 1887 — 19:27
7. 07 - Crime and Punishment (part one) — 33:52
8. 08 - Crime and Punishment (part two) — 34:55
9. 09 - In Defense of Emma Goldman — 31:23
10. 10 - Direct Action — 49:27
11. 11 - The Paris Commune — 20:50
12. 12 - The Mexican Revolution — 38:32
13. 13 - Thomas Paine — 17:24
14. 14 - Dyer D. Lum — 27:47
15. 15 - Francisco Ferrer — 42:16
16. 16 - Modern Educational Reform — 40:16
17. 17 - Sex Slavery — 31:09
18. 18 - Literature the Mirror of Man — 39:46
19. 19 - The Drama of the Nineteenth Century, part 1 — 22:00
20. 20 - The Drama of the Nineteenth Century, part 2 — 25:55
21. 21 - They Who Marry Do Ill — 35:26
22. 22 - The Economic Tendency of Freethought — 42:10

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