The House by the Side of the Road: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The House by the Side of the Road, credited to Sam Walter Foss, 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 volunteers bring you 18 recordings of The House by the Side of the Road by Sam Walter Foss. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 15, 2012. Sam Walter Foss was an American librarian and poet whose works included The House by the Side of the Road and The Coming American. Foss used to write a poem a day for the newspapers, and his five volumes of collected poetry are of the frank and homely “common man” variety. Longtime baseball announcer Ernie Harwell alluded to one of Foss's poems whenever he described a batter taking a called third strike: "He stood there like the house by the side of the road and watched it go by." ( Summary from Wikipedia )

Recording facts

• Recording title: The House by the Side of the Road
• Author credits: Sam Walter Foss
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 42:58

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• instruction
• nature
• philosophy

Track guide

1. The House by the Side of the Road - Read by BM — 2:57
2. The House by the Side of the Road - Read by CC — 2:24
3. The House by the Side of the Road - Read by DL — 2:17
4. The House by the Side of the Road - Read by EEP — 2:44
5. The House by the Side of the Road - Read by Elli — 1:58
6. The House by the Side of the Road - Read by FS — 2:38
7. The House by the Side of the Road - Read by GC — 2:11
8. The House by the Side of the Road - Read by GHS — 2:10
9. The House by the Side of the Road - Read by JCM — 2:03
10. The House by the Side of the Road - Read by KG — 2:27
11. The House by the Side of the Road - Read by LAH — 2:12
12. The House by the Side of the Road - Read by LKP — 2:03
13. The House by the Side of the Road - Read by LLW — 2:38
14. The House by the Side of the Road - Read by LRS — 2:23
15. The House by the Side of the Road - Read by REF — 2:30
16. The House by the Side of the Road - Read by RN — 2:34
17. The House by the Side of the Road - Read by VD — 2:45
18. The House by the Side of the Road - Read by XYB — 2:07

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