The Maxims of Methuselah: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Maxims of Methuselah, credited to Frank Gelett Burgess, 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 Maxims of Methuselah by Frank Gelett Burgess. Read in English by volunteer readers. Being the Advice given by the Patriarch in his Nine Hundred Sixty and Ninth Year to his Great Grandson at Shem's Coming of Age, in Regard to Women. The following is, so far as I know, the only authentic rendering into the English language of the three hundred and thirty parables attributed to Methuselah. . . . Of its origin, the book, although freely rendered into the idiom of the hour, still bears intrinsic evidence of having been compiled by one who had had extraordinary experience with women. The amorous expert will not find it hard to believe that 969 years would be none too short a time for any one man to have accumulated such a profound lore. Indeed, women tell us that the present span of life is entirely too brief for any ordinary man to obtain the slightest comprehension of the extreme complexity of feminine psychology. (Summary from the introduction)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Maxims of Methuselah
• Author credits: Frank Gelett Burgess
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 1:37:48

Catalogue topics

• humor
• women
• relationships
• wisdom

Track guide

1. 00 - Introduction — 15:59
2. 01 - Chapters 1-2 — 6:53
3. 02 - Chapters 3-4 — 6:38
4. 03 - Chapters 5-6 — 5:41
5. 04 - Chapters 7-8 — 7:12
6. 05 - Chapters 9-10 — 5:58
7. 06 - Chapters 11-12 — 9:02
8. 07 - Chapter 13 — 14:41
9. 08 - Chapters 14-15 — 7:02
10. 09 - Chapters 16-17 — 6:03
11. 10 - Chapters 18-19 — 6:39
12. 11 - Chapters 20-21 — 6:00

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