The Ghosts of Piccadilly: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Ghosts of Piccadilly, credited to G. S. Street, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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Librivox recording of The Ghosts of Piccadilly by G. S. Street. Read by Peter Yearsley. Nothing spooky or supernatural, but a very personal gathering of gossip, letters, and fragments of biography of famous people who have lived in Piccadilly (in London, England) ... and of some of the buildings, now long gone. "If any part of any city deserves a book to itself, it is Piccadilly. We shall stand before some house in the hours when the traffic is stilled, and I shall tell of its history, of the men and women who dwelt there, and talked and loved and gambled and lived and died. I shall follow the lines of my temperament and tastes rather than those of completeness and impartiality: it is likely that I shall be voluble about Byron and reticent about Macaulay." (From the preface) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Ghosts of Piccadilly
• Author credits: G. S. Street
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 5:47:59

Catalogue topics

• nonfiction
• Piccadilly
• London
• history

Track guide

1. 01 - Preface; Chapter One - A General View — 24:03
2. 02 - Chapter Two - Contrasted Fates: Clarendon House and Devonshire House — 29:33
3. 03 - Chapter Three - Another Contrast of Neighbours: 81 and 82 — 20:46
4. 04 - Chapter Four: Old Q. — 21:04
5. 05 - Chapter Five: The Ghosts of Albany — 19:08
6. 06 - Chapter Six: Byron — 21:05
7. 07 - Chapter Seven: Of Burlington House — 22:49
8. 08 - Chapter Eight - The Palmerstons and Cambridge House — 18:24
9. 09 - Chapter Nine: 105, 106, and 107 — 20:34
10. 10 - Chapter Ten: The Great Duke — 23:21
11. 11 - Chapter Eleven: Emma Hamilton — 18:55
12. 12 - Chapter Twelve: Sir Walter in London — 16:12
13. 13 - Chapter Thirteen: Harriot Mellon — 20:27
14. 14 - Chapter Fourteen: Some Other People — 21:11
15. 15 - Chapter Fifteen: Some Other Houses — 20:26
16. 16 - Chapter Sixteen: The Shops and the Taverns — 19:02
17. 17 - Chapter Seventeen: The Church and The End — 11:08

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