The Best Nonsense Verses: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Best Nonsense Verses, credited to Josephine Daskam Bacon, 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 The Best Nonsense Verses by Josephine Daskam Bacon. Read in English by Grace Buchanan From Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky to limericks written by Anonymous, some of the crankiest, most logical and lyrical people turn common sense upside-down. May they inspire the child inside of you to find your way through the most challenging situations with a new set of eyes! Josephine Dodge Daskam, aka Josephine Daskam Bacon, selected these nonsense verses with the permission of their authors Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, W.S. Gilbert, Guy Wetmore Carryl, Charles E. Carryl, Oliver Herford, Gelett Burgess, George du Maurier, and Rudyard Kipling. (Grace Buchanan)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Best Nonsense Verses
• Author credits: Josephine Daskam Bacon
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 21
• Listed recording duration: 1:06:51

Catalogue topics

• humor
• nature
• adventure
• animals
• collection
• fantasy
• fairy tales
• myths

Track guide

1. 01 - Father William, by Lewis Carroll — 2:52
2. 02 - The Walrus and the Carpenter, by Lewis Carroll — 5:32
3. 03 - The Hunting of the Snark, Extracts, by Lewis Carroll — 6:28
4. 04 - Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll — 2:07
5. 05 - The Jumblies, by Edward Lear — 4:31
6. 06 - The Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo, by Edward Lear — 5:55
7. 07 - Nonsense Verses, by Edward Lear — 3:33
8. 08 - Gentle Alice Brown, by W.S. Gilbert — 5:28
9. 09 - Emily, John, James, and I, by W.S. Gilbert — 4:07
10. 10 - Ellen M'Jones Aberdeen, by W.S. Gilbert — 4:46
11. 11 - The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven, by Guy Wetmore Carryl — 2:39
12. 12 - Red Ridinghood, by Guy Wetmore Carryl — 3:45
13. 13 - A Nautical Ballad, by Charles E. Carryl — 2:11
14. 14 - The Plaint of the Camel, by Charles E. Carryl — 1:49
15. 15 - Child's Natural History, by Oliver Herford — 3:11
16. 16 - Alphabet of Celebrities, by Oliver Herford — 1:33
17. 17 - Nonsense Verses, by Gelett Burgess — 1:38
18. 18 - Vers Nonsensiques, by George du Maurier — 2:06
19. 19 - Nonsense Verse, by Rudyard Kipling — 0:39
20. 20 - Nonsense Verse, by W.S. Gilbert — 0:38
21. 21 - Varia, by Anonymous — 1:23

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