The Column of Dust: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Column of Dust, credited to Evelyn Underhill, 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 Column of Dust by Evelyn Underhill. Read in English by Josh Mitteldorf Evelyn Underhill, the preeminent scholar of mysticism, wrote 3 novels in her youth, of which this is #3. Constance Tyrrel, a poor but literate woman works in a bookshop, suffers ennui, wonders if there is more to life than what she sees, invokes a ritual that she finds in a dusty old volume. Meanwhile, a disembodied spirit is consumed by a desire to know about the nature and content of the material world. It is drawn by Constance's call, where it appears as a column of dust. The two embark on adventures edifying to both and, incidentally to the reader. - Summary by Josh Mitteldorf

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Column of Dust
• Author credits: Evelyn Underhill
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 22
• Listed recording duration: 9:37:19

Catalogue topics

• victorian
• feminism
• mysticism
• Occult
• spirituality

Track guide

1. 01 - The Dangers of Curiosity — 13:03
2. 02 - How Something Came from Somewhere — 22:12
3. 03 - Furnished Lodgings — 22:29
4. 04 - The Day's Work — 28:09
5. 05 - A Domestic Interior — 17:20
6. 06 - Three Sorts of Ignorance — 27:54
7. 07 - The Street and the Drawing Room — 40:06
8. 08 - Two Sorts of Solitude — 34:49
9. 09 - The Road to Penrith and Other Places — 47:40
10. 10 - How those who lose themselves often find something more valuable — 28:33
11. 11 - Martin Upon Reality — 40:17
12. 12 - A Lecture and a Demonstration — 16:11
13. 13 - Sight-seeing — 17:43
14. 14 - Death and the Watcher — 18:36
15. 15 - New Facts for Constance and Andrew — 21:40
16. 16 - Two Lovers — 25:15
17. 17 - Constance and the Real — 25:42
18. 18 - The Mistresss of Novices — 30:01
19. 19 - Constance, Andrew and the Truth — 23:05
20. 20 - How Constance Kept Christmas — 24:52
21. 21 - The Helpers of the Holy Souls — 35:31
22. 22 - How They Went Home — 16:11

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