Thrift: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Thrift, credited to Samuel Smiles, 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 Thrift by Samuel Smiles. Read in English by volunteer readers. "This book is intended as a sequel to Self-Help and Character. It might, indeed, have appeared as an introduction to these volumes; for Thrift is the basis of Self-Help, and the foundation of much that is excellent in Character. The object of this book is to induce people to employ their means for worthy purposes, and not to waste them upon selfish indulgences. Many enemies have to be encountered in accomplishing this object. There are idleness, thoughtlessness, vanity, vice, intemperance. . . ." Some of the advice is obsolete, such as discussion about military savings banks and penny banks, but the general principles still apply even today. - Summary from the Preface & TriciaG

Recording facts

• Recording title: Thrift
• Author credits: Samuel Smiles
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 31
• Listed recording duration: 14:11:09

Catalogue topics

• money
• virtue
• self help
• character
• self control
• thrift

Opening tracks: first 24 of 31

1. 00 - Preface & Fable — 5:58
2. 01 - Industry — 18:40
3. 02 - Habits of Thrift — 37:00
4. 03 - Improvidence — 31:02
5. 04 - Means of Saving, Part 1 — 21:15
6. 05 - Means of Saving, Part 2 — 29:10
7. 06 - Examples of Thrift, Part 1 — 27:06
8. 07 - Examples of Thrift, Part 2 — 26:21
9. 08 - Methods of Economy, Part 1 — 23:48
10. 09 - Methods of Economy, Part 2 — 20:19
11. 10 - Economy in Life Assurance — 27:49
12. 11 - Savings Banks, Part 1 — 30:07
13. 12 - Savings Banks, Part 2 — 27:48
14. 13 - Savings Banks, Part 3 — 25:57
15. 14 - Little Things, Part 1 — 24:20
16. 15 - Little Things, Part 2 — 20:08
17. 16 - Masters and Men, Part 1 — 28:23
18. 17 - Masters and Men, Part 2 — 26:05
19. 18 - The Crossleys - Masters and Men (Continued), Part 1 — 30:12
20. 19 - The Crossleys - Masters and Men (Continued), Part 2 — 36:16
21. 20 - Living Beyond the Means, Part 1 — 30:05
22. 21 - Living Beyond the Means, Part 2 — 28:59
23. 22 - Great Debtors, Part 1 — 27:19
24. 23 - Great Debtors, Part 2 — 31:31

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