The Service: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Service by Henry David Thoreau: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 4 original MP3 tracks, 38:39 running time and a link to listen.
The Service, credited to Henry David Thoreau, 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 Service by Henry David Thoreau. Read in English by Phil Schempf An essay in three parts written in July 1840. "Human life is his topic, and he views it with an Oriental scope of thought, in which distinctions of Time and Space are lost in the wide prospect of Eternity and Immortality." (from the Introductory Note by F. B. Sanborn) - Summary by Fritz
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Service
- Author credits: Henry David Thoreau
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 4
- Listed recording duration: 38:39
Catalogue topics
- militant self responsibility
Track guide
- 00 - Introductory Note — 6:25
- 01 - Part I. Qualities of the Recruit — 12:50
- 02 - Part II. What Music Shall We Have? — 7:13
- 03 - Part III. Not How Many, But Where the Enemy Are — 12:11
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