The Story of Gladstone's Life: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Story of Gladstone's Life, credited to Justin McCarthy, 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 Story of Gladstone's Life by Justin McCarthy. Read in English by Pamela Nagami William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), four times Prime Minister of Great Britain, dominated the Liberal Party for thirty years, but ultimately divided it over the issue of Irish Home Rule, which he unsuccessfully championed. He brought to parliamentary politics a moral fervor which made him the personification of the Victorian Age, but which also challenged the complacency of its imperialistic assumptions. In this 1897 biography, the Liberal Irish member of Parliament, Justin McCarthy, presents a Gladstone still vividly remembered, rising to speak in the House of Commons among a host of illustrious contemporaries, including Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Palmerston, and Sir Robert Peel, or expounding his views to a bored and baffled Queen Victoria, who called him a "ridiculous, wild, and incomprehensible old fanatic." (Pamela Nagami)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Story of Gladstone's Life
• Author credits: Justin McCarthy
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 34
• Listed recording duration: 10:40:07

Catalogue topics

• british history
• irish home rule
• british parliament
• william ewart gladstone
• free trade
• the crimean war
• the american civil war
• benjamin disreali

Opening tracks: first 24 of 34

1. 01 - Ch. 1: 'The Gledstanes' — 9:42
2. 02 - Ch. 2: Eton and Oxford — 25:41
3. 03 - Ch. 3: Gladstone's Introduction to Public Life — 12:56
4. 04 - Ch. 4: Gladstone's First Parliament — 24:36
5. 05 - Ch. 5: Gladstone in Office — 21:43
6. 06 - Ch. 6: Gladstone's First Book — 20:35
7. 07 - Ch. 7: Gladstone's Marriage — 30:35
8. 08 - Ch. 8: The Free-Trade Struggle — 10:18
9. 09 - Ch. 9: The Free-Trade Struggle; Member for Oxford — 17:20
10. 10 - Ch. 10: Don Pacifico--Death of Sir Robert Peel — 21:14
11. 11 - Ch. 11: The Neopolitan Letters — 27:01
12. 12 - Ch. 12: The Ecclesiastical Titles Bill — 15:47
13. 13 - Ch. 13: Gladstone and Disraeli as Rivals — 20:29
14. 14 - Ch. 14: Gladstone and Bright — 6:13
15. 15 - Ch. 15: A Coalition Government — 10:20
16. 16 - Ch. 16: The Crimean War — 26:38
17. 17 - Ch. 17: The Ionian Islands — 26:21
18. 18 - Ch. 18: The Repeal of the Taxes on Education — 31:46
19. 19 - Ch. 19: The American Civil War — 15:42
20. 20 - Ch. 20: Gladstone Supports Popular Suffrage — 28:25
21. 21 - Ch. 21: The Irish State Church and Land Tenure Questions — 21:05
22. 22 - Ch. 22: National Education; Other Reforms — 8:15
23. 23 - Ch. 23: The Irish University Question — 13:35
24. 24 - Ch. 24: The Alabama Question — 7:39

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