Songs of Love and Life: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Songs of Love and Life, credited to Zora Cross, 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 Songs of Love and Life by Zora Cross. Read in English by Cavaet & EliseDee Songs of Love and Life by Zora Cross was a phenomenon in the author's native Australia in 1917. The original privately-published edition quickly sold out, and an expanded edition was produced a month later. Its erotic content, a rejection of old Victorian values, along with anti-war and feminist themes, catapulted the then 27-year-old Cross to the forefront of Australian poets. She was lauded and praised, but slowly fell into disfavor. Here we present the expanded version of her book, with the addition of four poems dropped from the privately-printed edition, which appear at the end of the recording. - Summary by cavaet

Recording facts

• Recording title: Songs of Love and Life
• Author credits: Zora Cross
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 105
• Listed recording duration: 2:41:55

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• erotica

Opening tracks: first 24 of 105

1. 001 - Sonnet I — 1:00
2. 002 - Sonnet II — 1:05
3. 003 - Sonnet III — 1:12
4. 004 - Sonnet IV — 1:02
5. 005 - Sonnet V — 1:08
6. 006 - Sonnet VI — 1:02
7. 007 - Sonnet VII — 1:01
8. 008 - Sonnet VIII — 1:02
9. 009 - Sonnet IX — 0:57
10. 010 - Sonnet X — 1:04
11. 011 - Sonnet XI — 1:01
12. 012 - Sonnet XII — 1:01
13. 013 - Sonnet XIII — 1:08
14. 014 - Sonnet XIV — 0:59
15. 015 - Sonnet XV — 1:14
16. 016 - Sonnet XVI — 1:02
17. 017 - Sonnet XVII — 1:04
18. 018 - Sonnet XVIII — 0:59
19. 019 - Sonnet XIX — 1:03
20. 020 - Sonnet XX — 1:04
21. 021 - Sonnet XXI — 1:01
22. 022 - Sonnet XXII — 1:01
23. 023 - Sonnet XXIII — 1:01
24. 024 - Sonnet XXIV — 1:02

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