The Burning Wheel: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Burning Wheel by Aldous Huxley: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 31 original MP3 tracks, 46:56 running time and a link to listen.
The Burning Wheel, credited to Aldous Huxley, 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 Burning Wheel by Aldous Huxley. Read in English by LIbrivox Volunteers. The last poem was read collaboratively by ezwa, AlgyPug and silverquill. Though Aldous Huxley is best known for his later novels and essays, he started his writing career as a poet. The Burning Wheel is his first work, a collection of thirty poems that pay homage in style to poets who wrote in the Romantic or the French symbolist styles. Many of the poems deal with themes of light, darkness, sight, music, art, war, and idealism vs. realism. Though the optimism in his early works waned as he became older, his characteristically optimistic and determined point of view shines through. - Summary by Mary Kay
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Burning Wheel
- Author credits: Aldous Huxley
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 31
- Listed recording duration: 46:56
Catalogue topics
- art
- sonnets
- war
- music
- greek mythology
- light
- realism
- idealism
Opening tracks: first 24 of 31
- 01 - The Burning Wheel — 2:13
- 02 - Doors of the Temple — 1:09
- 03 - Villiers de L'Isle-Adam — 1:08
- 04 - Darkness — 0:57
- 05 - Mole — 3:19
- 06 - The Two Seasons — 1:19
- 07 - Two Realities — 0:57
- 08 - Quotidian Vision — 0:54
- 09 - Vision — 0:50
- 10 - The Mirror — 0:59
- 11 - Variations on a Theme of Laforgue — 0:40
- 12 - Philosophy — 0:29
- 13 - Philoclea in the Forest — 3:20
- 14 - Books and Thoughts — 1:08
- 15 - Contrary to Nature and Aristotle — 0:54
- 16 - Escape — 1:07
- 17 - The Garden — 1:09
- 18 - The Canal — 1:13
- 19 - The Ideal found wanting — 1:19
- 20 - Misplaced Love — 1:21
- 21 - (First) Sonnet — 1:20
- 22 - Sentimental Summer — 1:14
- 23 - The Choice — 1:03
- 24 - The Higher Sensualism — 1:19
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