The Fanatics: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Fanatics, credited to Paul Laurence Dunbar, 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 Fanatics by Paul Laurence Dunbar. Read in English by Rita Boutros This is a story about a town in Ohio during the civil war. The town is divided by ideology, but can they be united by love and respect? - Summary by Stav Nisser. Note to listeners: Because of the subject of this book, some of the ideas described and the words used can be offensive.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Fanatics
• Author credits: Paul Laurence Dunbar
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 7:01:27

Catalogue topics

• south
• war
• north

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 01 - LOVE AND POLITICS — 8:25
2. 02 - THE PARTING OF TWO WAYS — 11:54
3. 03 - PREPARATION — 14:29
4. 04 - SONS AND FATHERS — 32:30
5. 05 - THE POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE — 15:46
6. 06 - A LONE FIGHT — 15:19
7. 07 - DIVIDED HOUSES — 14:07
8. 08 - AS A MAN THINKETH IN HIS HEART — 18:51
9. 09 - A LETTER FROM THE FRONT — 13:38
10. 10 - SORROW MAY LAST FOR A NIGHT — 14:57
11. 11 - AT HOME — 14:26
12. 12 - A JOURNEY SOUTH — 16:46
13. 13 - A STEWART COMES TO HIS OWN — 15:15
14. 14 - THE CONTRABANDS — 33:09
15. 15 - LICENSE OR LIBERTY — 17:21
16. 16 - DOLLY AND WALTER — 14:43
17. 17 - WHEN LOVE STANDS GUARD — 19:26
18. 18 - AN AFFAIR OF HONOR — 16:07
19. 19 - JUSTICE — 21:40
20. 20 - THE VISION OF THE BLACK RIDER — 14:56
21. 21 - A VAGUE QUEST — 14:08
22. 22 - THE HOMECOMING OF THE CAPTAIN — 19:47
23. 23 - A TROUBLESOME SECRET — 13:28
24. 24 - ROBERT VAN DOREN GOES HOME — 19:55

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