The Holiday Round: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Holiday Round, credited to A. A. Milne, 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 Holiday Round by A. A. Milne. Read in English by Kirsten Wever Alan Alexander Milne, popularly known as A. A. Milne, is best known – perhaps to most people only known – for his children’s book, Winnie the Pooh. Yet he was an incredibly prolific author. He published dozens of successful plays, myriad humorous articles written for internationally prominent journals, a wide range of social, political, and other nonfiction works, and even a murder mystery. This collection is humorous throughout, but humorous in a particularly Milnesque way: he consciously and quite openly rejected the bitterness of satire in favor of a peculiarly gentle, often self-deprecating humor. Included here are dozens of short essays showing, among other things, Milne’s extraordinary capacity to understand – and be understood by – children, and his special affinity for women, as friends and as lovers. - Summary by Kirsten Wever

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Holiday Round
• Author credits: A. A. Milne
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 11
• Listed recording duration: 8:17:01

Catalogue topics

• early 20th century
• British humor
• British humour

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter 1 - Holiday Time — 47:56
2. 02 - Chapter 2 - The House-Warming — 45:03
3. 03 - Chapter 3 - At Play — 42:53
4. 04 - Chapter 4 - Two Stories — 40:29
5. 05 - Chapter 5 - An Odd Lot — 49:40
6. 06 - Chapter 6 - Little Plays for Amateurs — 1:00:56
7. 07 - Chapter 7 - A Chapter of Accidents — 55:53
8. 08 - Chapter 8 - Stories of Successful Lives — 54:45
9. 09 - Chapter 9 Part 1 - A Few Friends — 32:11
10. 10 - Chapter 9 Part 2 - A Few Friends — 57:36
11. 11 - Chapter 10 - Epilogue — 9:39

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