The Coo-ee Reciter: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Coo-ee Reciter, credited to Various, 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 Coo-ee Reciter by Various. Read in English by Algy Pug; John Burlinson; Newgatenovelist Recitation was a vital part of the curriculum in education in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. It not only enabled students to gain practice in addressing groups in public, but also provided models for the study of accent and elocution – vital skills in the days before public address systems were universally available. Accordingly, a number of “reciters,” or collections of texts suitable for recitation, were published in this period. The Coo-ee Reciter, published in 1904, was one of the most popular of these collections in Australia. In the words of the anthologist it contains a variety of "humorous, pathetic, dramatic and dialect recitations and readings" by Australian, British and American authors. Inevitably, these collections featured many items that featured the events and attitudes of the period. While many of the pieces can make no claim to be great literature, they do have great value as windows into the experiences, expectations and aspirations of the people at the time. - Summary by Algy Pug

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Coo-ee Reciter
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 42
• Listed recording duration: 3:08:31

Catalogue topics

• readers
• Australia

Opening tracks: first 24 of 42

1. 01 - I Killed a Man at Graspan by Montague Grover — 3:15
2. 02 - Kitty O'Toole by W.L.Lumley — 1:31
3. 03 - The Ballad of the Drover by Henry Lawson — 3:31
4. 04 - The Rescue by Edward Dyson — 5:52
5. 05 - Saltbush Bill by A.B. Paterson — 5:05
6. 06 - Drought and Doctrine by J. Brunton Stephens — 6:19
7. 07 - The Martyr by Victor J. Daley — 3:44
8. 08 - The Carrying of the Baby by Ethel Turner — 10:21
9. 09 - The Old Gum by Florence Bullivant — 3:20
10. 10 - Murphy shall not Sing To-night by Montague Grover — 3:22
11. 11 - Christmas Bells by John B. O'Hara — 3:17
12. 12 - Wool is Up by Garnet Walch — 2:47
13. 13 - Wool is Down by Garnet Walch — 3:49
14. 14 - The Highland Brigade Buries its Dead by Lieut -Col W T Reay — 8:08
15. 15 - Australia's Call to Arms by John B. O'Hara — 2:14
16. 16 - Good News by Garnet Walch — 3:25
17. 17 - Free Trade v Protection by Garnet Walch — 8:35
18. 18 - The Lion's Cubs by Garnet Walch — 3:25
19. 19 - The Little Duchess by Ethel Turner — 15:59
20. 20 - Australia's Springtime by W.L.Lumley — 3:55
21. 21 - The Man that saved the Match by David McKee Wright — 6:26
22. 22 - Ode for Commonwealth Day, 1st January, 1901 by George Essex Evans — 3:37
23. 23 - A Desperate Assault by Donald MacDonald — 6:38
24. 24 - The Game of Life by John Godfrey Saxe — 3:28

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