The Circus: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Circus, credited to Edwin C. Ranck, 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 volunteers bring you 19 recordings of The Circus by Edwin C Ranck. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 14, 2020. Read in English by ambsweet13; andybeddy; Bruce Kachuk; Batty Royale; Craig Franklin; ChadH94; Chris Pyle; David Lawrence; Edmond Aggabao; EliseDee; mammutty; Garth Burton; Garfield Dsouza; Graham Scott; Lee Ann Howlett; Princess Nwafor; Phil Schempf; Larry Wilson and Ryan Fink. This little volume was written for no reason on earth and with no earthly reason. It just simply happened, on the principle, I suppose that "murder will out." Murder is a bad thing and so are nonsense rhymes. There is often a valid excuse for murder; there is none for nonsense rhymes. They seem to be a necessary evil to be classed with smallpox, chicken-pox, yellow fever and other irruptive diseases. They are also on the order of the boomerang and eventually rebound and inflict much suffering on the unlucky verse-slinger. So you see nonsense, like a little learning is a dangerous thing and should be handled with as much care as the shotgun which is never known to be loaded. From the Preface to Poems for Pale People, A Volume of Verse By Edwin C. Ranck.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Circus
• Author credits: Edwin C. Ranck
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 19
• Listed recording duration: 25:27

Catalogue topics

• humor
• parade
• poetry

Track guide

1. 01 - The Circus - Read by AMB — 1:18
2. 02 - The Circus - Read by AWB — 1:30
3. 03 - The Circus - Read by BK — 1:34
4. 04 - The Circus - Read by BR — 1:33
5. 05 - The Circus - Read by CF — 1:26
6. 06 - The Circus - Read by CJPH — 1:15
7. 07 - The Circus - Read by CLP — 1:08
8. 08 - The Circus - Read by DL — 1:18
9. 09 - The Circus - Read by EA — 1:13
10. 10 - The Circus - Read by ED — 1:08
11. 11 - The Circus - Read by FH — 1:12
12. 12 - The Circus - Read by GB — 1:27
13. 13 - The Circus - Read by GD — 1:21
14. 14 - The Circus - Read by GRS — 1:29
15. 15 - The Circus - Read by LAH — 1:18
16. 16 - The Circus - Read by PN — 1:11
17. 17 - The Circus - Read by PS — 1:19
18. 18 - The Circus - Read by LCW — 1:18
19. 19 - The Circus - Read by RF — 1:29

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