The Lake: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Lake, credited to Matthew Arnold, 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 14 recordings of The Lake by Matthew Arnold. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 9, 2015. Read in English by Bruce Kachuk; Domenica Campbell; David Lawrence; Newgatenovelist; Garth Burton; Greg Giordano; Ian King; J. McDougall; Lee Ann Howlett; Larry Wilson; Leonard Wilson; Matthew Smith; Maria Kasper and SkyAlbatross. Matthew Arnold was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. Matthew Arnold has been characterised as a sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on contemporary social issues. He is sometimes called the third great Victorian poet, along with Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Robert Browning. This week's poem is the first part of Arnold's Lyric Poem 'Switzerland'. ( Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Lake
• Author credits: Matthew Arnold
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 14
• Listed recording duration: 15:36

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• romance

Track guide

1. 01 - The Lake - Read by BK — 1:17
2. 02 - The Lake - Read by DCC — 1:07
3. 03 - The Lake - Read by DL — 1:04
4. 04 - The Lake - Read by EL — 1:01
5. 05 - The Lake - Read by GB — 1:09
6. 06 - The Lake - Read by GG — 1:16
7. 07 - The Lake - Read by IK — 1:03
8. 08 - The Lake - Read by JM — 0:56
9. 09 - The Lake - Read by LAH — 1:03
10. 10 - The Lake - Read by LCW — 1:04
11. 11 - The Lake - Read by LLW — 1:12
12. 12 - The Lake - Read by MAS — 1:07
13. 13 - The Lake - Read by MK — 1:13
14. 14 - The Lake - Read by SABT — 1:04

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