Selected Essays of Samuel Johnson: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Selected Essays of Samuel Johnson, credited to Samuel Johnson; Stuart Johnson Reid, 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 Selected Essays of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson; Stuart Johnson Reid. Read in English by Barbara Baker; Bill Boerst; Pamela Nagami; Denise Nordell; Jesse Zuba; Roohi; Michele Fry; J. McDougall; Anders V Lankford; Philippa This is a volume of selected essays by "the great master of reason" Samuel Johnson. The most famous exerpts from The Rambler, The Adventurer and The Idler are included, covering a vast range of topics. - Summary by Carolin

Recording facts

• Recording title: Selected Essays of Samuel Johnson
• Author credits: Samuel Johnson; Stuart Johnson Reid
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 69
• Listed recording duration: 13:12:21

Catalogue topics

• samuel
• London
• essays
• johnson
• rambler
• idler
• adventurer

Opening tracks: first 24 of 69

1. 01 - Bibliographical Introduction, part 1 — 38:22
2. 02 - Biographical Introduction, part 2 — 35:50
3. 03 - The Necessity and Danger of Looking into Futurity. Writers Naturally Sanguine. Their Hopes Liable to Disappointment — 16:23
4. 04 - An Allegory on Criticism — 12:14
5. 05 - The Modern Form of Romances Preferable to the Ancient. The Necessity of Characters Morally Good — 15:06
6. 06 - The Folly of Anger. The Misery of a Peevish Old Age — 15:05
7. 07 - The Difference Between an Author's Writings and his Conversation — 14:46
8. 08 - The Dangers and Miseries of Literary Eminence — 14:00
9. 09 - The Anxieties of Literature not Less than Those of Publick Stations. The Inequality of Authors' Writings — 13:27
10. 10 - An Allegory on Wit and Learning — 12:25
11. 11 - The Contrariety of Criticism. The Vanity of Objection. An Author Obliged to Depend upon his own Judgment — 9:36
12. 12 - The Various Arts of Self-Delusion — 14:11
13. 13 - The Difficulty of Giving Advice Without Offending — 12:25
14. 14 - The Proper Means of Regulating Sorrow — 11:55
15. 15 - A Virtuous Old Age Always Reverenced — 10:10
16. 16 - The Desire of Wealth Moderated by Philosophy — 9:28
17. 17 - The Dignity and Usefulness of Biography — 12:49
18. 18 - Inconstancy Always a Weakness — 11:49
19. 19 - The Requisites to True Friendship — 11:48
20. 20 - The Garden of Hope - A Dream — 8:50
21. 21 - Every Man Chiefly Happy or Miserable at Home. The Opinions of Servants not to be Despised — 9:37
22. 22 - The Necessity of Good Humor — 10:56
23. 23 - The Learned Seldom Despised but when they Deserve Contempt — 13:05
24. 24 - The Reasons Why Advice is Generally Ineffectual — 11:35

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