The Story of My Misfortunes: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Story of My Misfortunes by Peter Abelard: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 5 original MP3 tracks, 2:34:15 running time and a link to listen.
The Story of My Misfortunes, credited to Peter Abelard, 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 Story of My Misfortunes or Historia Calamitatum, by Peter Abelard. Read by Martin Geeson. Autobiographies from remote historical periods can be especially fascinating. Modes of self-presentation vary greatly across the centuries, as of course does the very concept of Self. Peter Abelard, the medieval philosopher and composer, here gives a concise but vivid survey of his notoriously calamitous life. The work is couched in the form of a letter to an afflicted friend. Abelard's abrasively competitive, often arrogant personality emerges at once in the brief Foreword, where he informs his correspondent: "(I)n comparing your sorrows with mine, you may discover that yours are in truth nought.. and so shall you come to bear them the more easily." (Summary by Martin Geeson)
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Story of My Misfortunes
- Author credits: Peter Abelard
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 5
- Listed recording duration: 2:34:15
Catalogue topics
- Abelard
- memoirs
- epistle
- biography
- librivox.
Track guide
- 01 - Foreword, Chapters I-V — 28:30
- 02 - Chapters VI, VII — 29:16
- 03 - Chapters VIII, IX — 25:28
- 04 - Chapters X-XII — 34:01
- 05 - Chapters XIII-XV — 37:02
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