The Passing of the Year: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Passing of the Year, credited to Robert W. Service, 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 8 recordings of The Passing of the Year by by Robert W. Service. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 18, 2011. Robert William Service was a poet and writer who has often been called "the Bard of the Yukon". This poem taken from Rhymes of a Rolling Stone, published in 1912. (Summary from Wikipedia) "I have no doubt at all the Devil grins As seas of ink I spatter. Ye gods, forgive my "literary" sins — The other kind don't matter." (frontispiece)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Passing of the Year
• Author credits: Robert W. Service
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 8
• Listed recording duration: 25:57

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• holiday
• psychology
• philosophy

Track guide

1. The Passing of the Year - Read by CC — 3:08
2. The Passing of the Year - Read by DD — 3:17
3. The Passing of the Year - Read by DL — 3:00
4. The Passing of the Year - Read by FS — 3:10
5. The Passing of the Year - Read by K2 — 3:19
6. The Passing of the Year - Read by LLW — 3:49
7. The Passing of the Year - Read by REF — 3:28
8. The Passing of the Year - Read by TG — 2:50

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