Some American Storytellers: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Some American Storytellers, credited to Frederic Taber Cooper, 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 Some American Storytellers by Frederic Taber Cooper. Read in English by Celine Major. Frederic Taber Cooper, who was an editor and author, provides a superb insight into the works of some of the most popular authors of the turn of the century decade. Excerpt: The subjects of the essays included in this volume differ widely in aim and in accomplishment; but all of them possess, to a considerable extent, the gift that makes them next of kin to the minstrel and troubadour, to the ancient fabulist, and to the forgotten spinner of the world s first nursery tales, the gift of holding the attention by the spell of the spoken word. - Summary by Celine Major

Recording facts

• Recording title: Some American Storytellers
• Author credits: Frederic Taber Cooper
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 15
• Listed recording duration: 7:49:04

Catalogue topics

• authors
• writers
• essayists
• biography

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 3:33
2. 01 - Ch. 1 Francis Marion Crawford — 34:33
3. 02 - Ch. 2 Kate Douglas Wiggin — 27:59
4. 03 - Ch. 3 Winston Churchill — 26:41
5. 04 - Ch. 4 Robert W. Chambers — 29:02
6. 05 - Ch. 5 Ellen Glasgow — 28:56
7. 06 - Ch. 6 David Graham Phillips — 37:24
8. 07 - Ch. 7 Robert Herrick — 38:27
9. 08 - Ch. 8 Edith Wharton — 38:08
10. 09 - Ch. 9 Newton Booth Tarkington — 38:52
11. 10 - Ch. 10 O.Henry — 27:13
12. 11 - Ch. 11 Gertrude Atherton — 25:56
13. 12 - Ch. 12 Owen Wister — 40:24
14. 13 - Ch. 13 Frank Norris — 41:12
15. 14 - Ch. 14 Ambrose Pierce — 30:44

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