The Martyrdom of Man: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Martyrdom of Man, credited to William Winwood Reade, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of The Martyrdom of Man by (William) Winwood Reade. Read in English by Algy Pug William Winwood Reade (1838 - 1875) was a British historian, explorer, and philosopher. His most famous work, the Martyrdom of Man (1872)—whose summary running head reads "From Nebula to Nation"—is a secular, "universal" history of the Western world. Structurally, it is divided into four "chapters" of approximately 150 pages each: the first chapter, "War", discusses the imprisonment of men's bodies, the second, "Religion", that of their minds, the third, "Liberty", is the closest thing to a conventional European political and intellectual history, and the fourth, "Intellect", which discusses the cosmogony characteristic of a "universal history" Cecil Rhodes, an English-born South African politician and businessman, said that the book "made me what I am". Other admirers of The Martyrdom of Man included H. G. Wells, Winston Churchill, Harry Johnston, George Orwell, Susan Isaacs, A. A. Milne and his son Christopher Robin, and Michael Foot. A laudatory reference is made to the book by Sherlock Holmes in the Sign of the Four. - Summary by Wikipedia

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Martyrdom of Man
• Author credits: William Winwood Reade
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 51
• Listed recording duration: 18:20:35

Catalogue topics

• history
• religion
• slavery
• war
• africa
• egypt
• reade

Opening tracks: first 24 of 51

1. 00 - Author's Preface — 8:48
2. 01 - Chaper 1 - War - Section 1 — 22:22
3. 02 - Chaper 1 - War - Section 2 — 16:40
4. 03 - Chaper 1 - War - Section 3 — 21:37
5. 04 - Chaper 1 - War - Section 4 — 18:46
6. 05 - Chaper 1 - War - Section 5 — 23:59
7. 06 - Chaper 1 - War - Section 6 — 19:15
8. 07 - Chaper 1 - War - Section 7 — 23:47
9. 08 - Chaper 1 - War - Section 8 — 16:21
10. 09 - Chaper 1 - War - Section 9 — 14:31
11. 10 - Chaper 1 - War - Section 10 — 25:39
12. 11 - Chaper 1 - War - Section 11 — 22:06
13. 12 - Chaper 1 - War - Section 12 — 23:50
14. 13 - Chaper 1 - War - Section 13 — 21:25
15. 14 - Chaper 1 - War - Section 14 — 25:26
16. 15 - Chaper 1 - War - Section 15 — 17:47
17. 16 - Chaper 2 - Religion - Section 1 — 23:35
18. 17 - Chaper 2 - Religion - Section 2 — 14:49
19. 18 - Chaper 2 - Religion - Section 3 — 29:56
20. 19 - Chaper 2 - Religion - Section 4 — 26:32
21. 20 - Chaper 2 - Religion - Section 5 — 21:31
22. 21 - Chaper 2 - Religion - Section 6 — 15:22
23. 22 - Chaper 2 - Religion - Section 7 — 20:37
24. 23 - Chaper 2 - Religion - Section 8 — 22:36

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