The Book of Snobs: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Book of Snobs, credited to William Makepeace Thackeray, 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 Book of Snobs by William Makepeace Thackeray. The necessity of a work on Snobs, demonstrated from History, and proved by felicitous illustrations:—I am the individual destined to write that work—My vocation is announced in terms of great eloquence—I show that the world has been gradually preparing itself for the WORK and the MAN—Snobs are to be studied like other objects of Natural Science, and are a part of the Beautiful (with a large B). They pervade all classes—Affecting instance of Colonel Snobley. (Summary excerpted from Prefatory Remarks from the book by W. M. Thackeray)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Book of Snobs
• Author credits: William Makepeace Thackeray
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 46
• Listed recording duration: 7:21:11

Catalogue topics

• Humour

Opening tracks: first 24 of 46

1. 00 - Prefatory Remarks — 8:58
2. 01 - The Snob Playfully Dealt With — 12:25
3. 02 - The Snob Royal — 9:21
4. 03 - The Influence of the Aristocracy on Snobs — 10:18
5. 04 - The Court Circular, And Its Influence On Snobs — 9:32
6. 05 - What Snobs Admire — 9:57
7. 06 - On Some Respectable Snobs — 8:21
8. 07 - On Some Respectable Snobs — 11:14
9. 08 - Great City Snobs — 9:58
10. 09 - On Some Military Snobs — 9:18
11. 10 - Military Snobs — 9:07
12. 11 - On Clerical Snobs — 6:39
13. 12 - On Clerical Snobs And Snobbishness — 11:45
14. 13 - On Clerical Snobs — 6:52
15. 14 - On University Snobs — 10:38
16. 15 - On University Snobs — 7:52
17. 16 - On Literary Snobs — 7:12
18. 17 - A Little About Irish Snobs — 6:13
19. 18 - Party-Giving Snobs — 11:05
20. 19 - Dining-Out Snobs — 8:30
21. 20 - Dinner-Giving Snobs Further Considered — 10:27
22. 21 - Some Continental Snobs — 11:50
23. 22 - Continental Snobbery Continued — 7:51
24. 23 - English Snobs on the Continent — 9:31

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