The Children: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Children, credited to Alice Meynell, 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 Children by Alice Meynell. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League, She and her husband Wilfrid Meynell were active in publishing and editing literary works including helping to launch the first works of Francis Thompson, author of "Hound of Heaven." This is a collection of her essays on children. The opening line for the first essay sets the stage. "To attend to a living child is to be baffled in your humour, disappointed of your pathos, and set freshly free from all the pre-occupations. You cannot anticipate him." - Summary by Larry Wilson

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Children
• Author credits: Alice Meynell
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 1:56:44

Catalogue topics

• children
• essays

Track guide

1. 01 - Fellow Travellers with a Bird, I. — 6:52
2. 02 - Fellow Travellers with a Bird, II. — 7:28
3. 03 - Children in Midwinter — 10:30
4. 04 - That Pretty Person — 11:59
5. 05 - Out of Town — 5:50
6. 06 - Expression — 2:34
7. 07 - Under the Early Stars — 5:15
8. 08 - The Man with Two Heads — 5:29
9. 09 - Children in Burlesque — 4:07
10. 10 - Authorship — 3:23
11. 11 - Letters — 3:16
12. 12 - The Fields — 6:26
13. 13 - The Barren Shore — 8:05
14. 14 - The Boy — 5:53
15. 15 - Illness — 3:51
16. 16 - The Young Child — 8:42
17. 17 - Fair and Brown — 7:16
18. 18 - Real Childhood — 9:48

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