The Pentecost of Calamity: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Pentecost of Calamity by Owen Wister: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 3 original MP3 tracks, 1:38:40 running time and a link to listen.
The Pentecost of Calamity, credited to Owen Wister, 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 Pentecost of Calamity, by Owen Wister. Read by David Wales. Nonfiction. Appalled by the savagery of World War I, Owen Wister in 1915 published an attempt to move the United States out of neutrality into joining the Allies against Germany. His aim was the quicker defeat of that nation. (Wister: “the new Trinity of German worship – the Super-man, the Super-race, and the Super-state.”) He was but one of many literary personages who joined in this effort. A moving quote: “Perhaps nothing save calamity will teach us what Europe is thankful to have learned again – that some things are worse than war, and that you can pay too high a price for peace; but that you cannot pay too high for the finding and keeping of your own soul.” (Summary by David Wales)
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Pentecost of Calamity
- Author credits: Owen Wister
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 3
- Listed recording duration: 1:38:40
Catalogue topics
- World War I
- WWI
- propaganda
- history
Track guide
- 1 - Sections 1 - 4 — 34:40
- 2 - Sections 5 - 11 — 35:38
- 3 - Sections 12 - 15 — 28:22
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