Stops of Various Quills: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Stops of Various Quills, credited to William Dean Howells, 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 Stops of Various Quills by William Dean Howells. Read in English by Zach Hoyt. Stops Of Various Quills is a short book of poetry written by WIlliam Dean Howells in the years following the death of his daughter. The title is taken from the last stanza of John Milton's elegy Lycidas. This book contains the poem The Bewildered Guest, which is reported to be among the most widely quoted of Howells' poems. - Summary by Zach Hoyt

Recording facts

• Recording title: Stops of Various Quills
• Author credits: William Dean Howells
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 43
• Listed recording duration: 34:57

Catalogue topics

• sonnets

Opening tracks: first 24 of 43

1. 01 - November — 0:41
2. 02 - Midway — 0:34
3. 03 - Time — 0:39
4. 04 - From Generation To Generation — 0:59
5. 05 - The Bewildered Guest — 0:52
6. 06 - Company — 0:36
7. 07 - Heredity — 0:55
8. 08 - Twelve P.M. — 0:50
9. 09 - Change — 0:45
10. 10 - In The Dark — 0:48
11. 11 - Tomorrow — 0:32
12. 12 - Living — 0:26
13. 13 - If — 0:49
14. 14 - Solitude — 0:32
15. 15 - Respite — 0:50
16. 16 - Question — 0:52
17. 17 - Hope — 0:53
18. 18 - The Burden — 0:39
19. 19 - Calvary — 0:33
20. 20 - Conscience — 0:27
21. 21 - Reward And Punishment — 0:31
22. 22 - Sympathy — 0:42
23. 23 - Statistics — 1:08
24. 24 - Parable — 1:43

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