Violets And Other Tales: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Violets And Other Tales, credited to Alice Dunbar Nelson, 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 Violets And Other Tales by Alice Dunbar Nelson. Read in English by James K. White This is a collection of the author's short stories and poems where she writes about the collective experience of African American women, and African Americans in general. But she is sharpest when she pushes back against the notion that women must accept and endure a subservient role to men. - Summary by James K. White

Recording facts

• Recording title: Violets And Other Tales
• Author credits: Alice Dunbar Nelson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 23
• Listed recording duration: 3:15:55

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• african american
• prose

Track guide

1. 00 - Introduction and Preface — 5:04
2. 01 - Violets — 5:51
3. 02 - Three Thoughts — 3:27
4. 03 - The Woman — 9:16
5. 04 - Ten Minutes' Musing — 6:00
6. 05 - A Plaint - In Unconsciousness — 11:20
7. 06 - Titee — 14:05
8. 07 - Anarchy Alley — 8:39
9. 08 - Impressions — 2:36
10. 09 - Salammbo — 8:44
11. 10 - Legend of the Newspaper — 4:39
12. 11 - A Carnival Jangle — 9:30
13. 12 - Paul to Virginia (Fin de Siecle) - The Maiden's Dream — 11:08
14. 13 - In Memoriam — 4:17
15. 14 - A Story of Vengeance — 9:40
16. 15 - At Bay St. Louis - New Year's Day — 4:09
17. 16 - The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ — 13:46
18. 17 - In Our Neighborhood — 18:10
19. 18 - Farewell - Little Miss Sophie — 19:24
20. 19 - If I Had Known - Chalmette — 5:07
21. 20 - At Eventide — 9:24
22. 21 - The Idler - Love and the Butterfly — 2:53
23. 22 - The Bee-Man - Amid The Roses — 8:46

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