The History of Sandford and Merton: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The History of Sandford and Merton, credited to Thomas Day, 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 History of Sandford and Merton by Thomas Day. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. The author, Thomas Day, has reproduced in this volume "such stories as [he] thought adapted to the faculties of children, but [has connected] them by a continued narration ; so that every story might appear to rise naturally out of the subject, and might, for that reason, make the greater impression. To render the relation the more interesting to those for whom it was intended, [he has] introduced two children as the actors, and [has] endeavoured to make them speak and behave according to the order of nature." Many an English child has been benefited by the entertaining plots and morals within. (excerpted from the author's Introduction)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The History of Sandford and Merton
• Author credits: Thomas Day
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 40
• Listed recording duration: 15:42:34

Catalogue topics

• Rousseau
• morals
• virtue
• educational philosophy

Opening tracks: first 24 of 40

1. 00 - Life of the Author and Preface — 13:27
2. 01 - Part 1 — 53:34
3. 02 - Part 2 The Flies and the Ants — 5:31
4. 03 - Part 3 The Gentleman and the Basket-Maker — 13:11
5. 04 - Part 4 The History of the Two Dogs — 13:12
6. 05 - Part 5 Androcles and the Lion — 18:40
7. 06 - Part 6 The Story of Cyrus — 18:50
8. 07 - Part 7 The Two Brothers — 10:46
9. 08 - Part 8 Extracts from a Narrative of the Extraordinary Adventures of Four Russian Sailors — 26:31
10. 09 - Part 9 — 18:19
11. 10 - Part 10 The Good Natured Little Boy and The Ill Natured Boy — 27:48
12. 11 - Part 11 The Story of the Grateful Turk A — 23:54
13. 12 - Part 12 The Story of the Grateful Turk B — 20:35
14. 13 - Part 13 The Story of the Grateful Turk C — 27:31
15. 14 - Part 14 — 22:16
16. 15 - Part 15 History of the Surprising Cure of the Gout — 26:26
17. 16 - Part 16 — 15:14
18. 17 - Part 17 — 33:08
19. 18 - Part 18 — 22:31
20. 19 - Part 19 History of Agesilaus — 14:22
21. 20 - Part 20 The History of Leonidas, King of Sparta — 11:48
22. 21 - Part 21 — 42:35
23. 22 - Part 22 — 22:58
24. 23 - Part 23 — 25:12

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