The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01, credited to Edmund Burke, 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 Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 by Edmund Burke. Read in English by Elijah Fisher; LenB; Joshua Paul Seeger.; jenno; Arden; andreabertelli ; Florence; Kathleen Moore; Jim Locke; Misikis; Gillian Hendrie; Theresa E Kao; Michele Eaton Edmund Burke was an Irish statesman, economist, and philosopher. Born in Dublin, he moved to London in 1750 and later served as a member of parliament between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons of Great Britain. He belonged to the Whig Party. Burke favored underpinning virtues with manners in society and stressed the importance of religious institutions for the moral stability and good of the state. He was an opponent to slavery and expressed appreciation for the complaints of the colonists in America before the outbreak of Revolution. This collection of his writings is the first of twelve available online at Project Gutenberg. (Adapted from Wikipedia by KevinS)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01
• Author credits: Edmund Burke
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 34
• Listed recording duration: 17:50:44

Catalogue topics

• Great Britain
• political science
• edmund burke

Opening tracks: first 24 of 34

1. 00 - Advertisements and Preface of A Letter to Lord Unknown — 36:32
2. 01 - Part 1 of A Letter to Lord Unknown — 46:27
3. 02 - Part 2 of A Letter to Lord Unknown — 51:01
4. 03 - Part 3 of A Letter to Lord Unknown — 35:52
5. 04 - Preface of A Philosophical inquiry into the origin of our ideas of the Sublime — 7:23
6. 05 - Introduction on taste — 41:41
7. 06 - Sections 1-9 of Part 1 — 25:05
8. 07 - Sections 10-19 of Part 1 — 30:40
9. 08 - Sections 1-11 of Part 2 — 37:06
10. 09 - Sections 12-22 of Part 2 — 17:38
11. 10 - Section 1-9 of Part 3 — 55:38
12. 11 - Sections 10-18 of Part 3 — 17:46
13. 12 - Sections 19-27 of Part 3 — 16:09
14. 13 - Sections 1-8 of Part 4 — 20:43
15. 14 - Sections 9-16 of Part 4 — 20:18
16. 15 - Section 17-25 of Part 4 — 31:58
17. 16 - Part 5 — 31:08
18. 17 - A short account of a late short administration 1766 — 5:03
19. 18 - Part 1 of Observations — 23:53
20. 19 - Part 2 Observations — 40:34
21. 20 - Part 3 of Observations — 28:54
22. 21 - Part 4 of Observations — 20:09
23. 22 - Part 5 of Observations — 43:24
24. 23 - Part 6 of Observations — 40:31

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