The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, credited to Sir Philip Sidney, 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 Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia by Sir Philip Sidney. Read in English by Nicole Lee Arcadia is a prose work by Sir Philip Sidney, a classic of the Renaissance pastoral and a work of high romance, a fleeting vision of a lost world of gallantry and adventure, representing an escape from the realities of politics in the Elizabethan court. It contributes to the ongoing legend of Sidney as the perfect Renaissance man, "soldier, scholar, horseman he/And all he did done perfectly". - Summary by Nicole Lee

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
• Author credits: Sir Philip Sidney
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 27
• Listed recording duration: 12:12:13

Catalogue topics

• romance
• renaissance
• pastoral
• knight errant
• gallantry

Opening tracks: first 24 of 27

1. 00 - Introduction — 29:52
2. 01 - The Epistle Dedicatory — 2:28
3. 02 - Book 1 Part 1 — 29:38
4. 03 - Book 1 Part 2 — 30:01
5. 04 - Book 1 Part 3 — 29:50
6. 05 - Book 1 Part 4 — 29:05
7. 06 - Book 1 Part 5 — 29:44
8. 07 - Book 1 Part 6 — 29:34
9. 08 - Book 2 Part 1 — 29:59
10. 09 - Book 2 Part 2 — 29:37
11. 10 - Book 2 Part 3 — 29:20
12. 11 - Book 2 Part 4 — 29:16
13. 12 - Book 2 Part 5 — 29:57
14. 13 - Book 2 Part 6 — 34:31
15. 14 - Book 3 Part 1 — 29:35
16. 15 - Book 3 Part 2 — 29:59
17. 16 - Book 3 Part 3 — 29:24
18. 17 - Book 3 Part 4 — 29:44
19. 18 - Book 3 Part 5 — 29:56
20. 19 - Book 3 Part 6 — 29:57
21. 20 - Book 3 Part 7 — 29:57
22. 21 - Book 3 Part 8 — 29:56
23. 22 - Book 3 Part 9 — 9:53
24. 23 - Book 4 Part 1 — 29:25

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