The Sunny Side: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Sunny Side, credited to A. A. Milne, 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 Sunny Side (Version 2) by A. A. Milne. Read in English by Kirsten Wever A. A. Milne is best known for his creation of the perennially popular Winnie the Pooh, though he was and is highly acclaimed for hundreds of gently humorous essays and poems published in, among other famous venues, Punch Magazine, most of which have been collected and published as books. The Sunny Side is his last collection of articles and verses because, as he wrote in the American Introduction to the volume, “this sort of writing depends largely upon the irresponsibility and high spirits of youth for its success, and I want to stop before …the high spirits become mechanical …” He called this assortment “scrappy, because, “…Odd Verses have crept in on the unanswerable plea that, if they didn't do it now, they never would; War Sketches protested that I shouldn't have a book at all if I left them out; an Early Article, omitted from three previous volumes, paraded for the fourth time with such a pathetic 'I suppose you don't want me' in its eye that it could not decently be rejected.” He concludes: “So here they all are." Summary by Kirsten Wever

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Sunny Side
• Author credits: A. A. Milne
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 9
• Listed recording duration: 7:55:56

Catalogue topics

• British humor
• British humour
• early 20th century literature

Track guide

1. 01 - Dedication, Preface, Chapter 1: Oranges and Lemons — 1:01:15
2. 02 - Chapter 2: Men of Letters — 1:06:32
3. 03 - Chapter 3: Summer Days — 50:48
4. 04 - Chapter 4, Part I: War-Time — 31:42
5. 05 - Chapter 4, Part II: War-Time — 1:05:48
6. 06 - Chapter 5, Part I: Home Notes — 35:57
7. 07 - Chapter 5, Part II: Home Notes — 45:36
8. 08 - Chapter 6: A Few Guests — 50:04
9. 09 - Chapter 7: And Others — 1:08:14

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