The Soul of London: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Soul of London by Ford Madox Ford: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 14 original MP3 tracks, 4:56:09 running time and a link to listen.
The Soul of London, credited to Ford Madox Ford, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of The Soul of London by Ford Madox Ford. Read in English by Cori Samuel 'Most of us love places very much as we may love what, for us, are the distinguished men of our social lives. [...] We are, all of us who are Londoners, paying visits of greater or less duration to a Personality that, whether we love it or very cordially hate it, fascinates us all. And, paying my visit, I have desired to give some such record. I have tried to make it anything rather than encyclopaedic, topographical, or archaeological. To use a phrase of literary slang I have tried to "get the atmosphere" of modern London -- of the town in which I have passed so many days; of the immense place that has been the background for so many momentous happenings to so many of my fellows.' - Summary by Ford Madox Ford, from the Introductory; 1905.
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Soul of London
- Author credits: Ford Madox Ford
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 14
- Listed recording duration: 4:56:09
Catalogue topics
- London
- sociology
- edwardian
- londoners
Track guide
- 01 - Chapter I. From A Distance, pt.1 — 32:03
- 02 - Chapter I. From A Distance, pt.2 — 23:30
- 03 - Chapter II. Roads Into London, pt.1 — 17:08
- 04 - Chapter II. Roads Into London, pt.2 — 18:58
- 05 - Chapter II. Roads Into London, pt.3 — 16:06
- 06 - Chapter III. Work In London, pt.1 — 31:46
- 07 - Chapter III. Work In London, pt.2 — 26:58
- 08 - Chapter III. Work In London, pt.3 — 11:13
- 09 - Chapter IV. London At Leisure, pt.1 — 22:35
- 10 - Chapter IV. London At Leisure, pt.2 — 23:54
- 11 - Chapter IV. London At Leisure, pt.3 — 14:31
- 12 - Chapter V. Rest In London, pt.1 — 22:41
- 13 - Chapter V. Rest In London, pt.2 — 17:08
- 14 - Chapter V. Rest In London, pt.3 — 17:38
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