The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing, credited to Mary Webb, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing by Mary Webb. Read in English by NoelBadrian Mary Webb was a novelist and poet and two of her novels "Gone to Earth" and "Precious Bane" have been successfully adapted for film and television. She was passionate about nature and particularly the Shropshire countryside where she grew up and spent much of her life. At the age of 20, she was diagnosed with the autoimmune disease known as Graves' disease, a thyroid condition. She was often confined to her bed but came to believe that her love of and connection with nature helped in her healing. "The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing" published in 1917 is a collection of essays which celebrate the natural world with poetic and descriptive brilliance. It was actually written some years earlier while she was recovering from her first bout of illness. Her dedication for the book reads: TO THE WEARY AND WOUNDED IN THE BATTLE OF LIFE THIS LITTLE BOOK IS LOVINGLY DEDICATED - Summary by Noel Badrian

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
• Author credits: Mary Webb
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 9
• Listed recording duration: 3:00:38

Catalogue topics

• nature
• countryside
• health
• natural world

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter 1 Vis Medicatrix Naturae — 20:13
2. 02 - Chapter 2 Part 1 The Joy Of Motion — 24:53
3. 03 - Chapter 2 Part 2 The Joy Of Music — 17:24
4. 04 - Chapter 2 Part 3 The Joy Of Fragrance — 15:29
5. 05 - Chapter 3 Laughter — 25:36
6. 06 - Chapter 4 Part 1 The Beauty Of Form — 21:01
7. 07 - Chapter 4 Part 2 The Beauty Of Shadow — 14:39
8. 08 - Chapter 4 Part 3 The Beauty Of Colour — 24:04
9. 09 - Chapter 5 ''You Whom Care in Prison Keeps, And Sickness Doth Suppress'' — 17:19

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