Wheels - The Fifth Cycle: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Wheels - The Fifth Cycle, credited to Aldous Huxley; Edith Sitwell; Osbert Sitwell; Sacheverell Sitwell; Sherard Vines; Alan Porter, 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 Wheels - The Fifth Cycle by Aldous Huxley; Edith Sitwell; Osbert Sitwell; Sacheverell Sitwell; Sherard Vines; Alan Porter. Read in English by Nemo; Algy Pug; Newgatenovelist; Eva Davis The Fifth Cycle of the Wheels poetry anthology was published in 1920 and contains poems by Aldous Huxley, Alan Porter, Leah McTavish Coehn, Geoffrey Cookson, William Kean Seymour, John J. Adams, Sherard Vines, and Osbert, Edith and Sacheverell Sitwell. The book was dedicated to Mrs Arnold Bennett, who is described as “poetry’s greatest interpretative artist.” - Summary by Algy Pug

Recording facts

• Recording title: Wheels - The Fifth Cycle
• Author credits: Aldous Huxley; Edith Sitwell; Osbert Sitwell; Sacheverell Sitwell; Sherard Vines; Alan Porter
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 36
• Listed recording duration: 2:20:13

Catalogue topics

• poetry

Opening tracks: first 24 of 36

1. 01 - Cornucopia by Osbert Sitwell — 5:19
2. 02 - Church Parade by Osbert Sitwell — 2:41
3. 03 - Sunday Afternoon by Osbert Sitwell — 4:39
4. 04 - De Luxe: Two poems by Osbert Sitwell — 3:44
5. 05 - At the House of Mrs Kinfoot by Osbert Sitwell — 2:41
6. 06 - Malgre Lui by Osbert Sitwell — 4:08
7. 07 - Fragment from “The Valley of the Giants” by Osbert Sitwell — 3:30
8. 08 - Mrs Prudential consults the Witch of Endor by Osbert Sitwell — 3:00
9. 09 - Theatre of Varieties by Aldous Huxley — 9:34
10. 10 - Hard of Hearing by Alan Porter — 1:45
11. 11 - Lovers by Alan Porter — 1:07
12. 12 - Blind by Alan Porter — 0:51
13. 13 - Child’s Song by Leah McTavish Cohen — 0:50
14. 14 - Time by Geoffrey Cookson — 1:11
15. 15 - Mist and Cloud by Geoffrey Cookson — 2:31
16. 16 - Eden by Geoffrey Cookson — 2:08
17. 17 - Porphryo by Geoffrey Cookson — 3:09
18. 18 - The Crocodile Discourses by Geoffrey Cookson — 2:50
19. 19 - The Ambush by William Kean Seymour — 1:16
20. 20 - Stars by William Kean Seymour — 0:51
21. 21 - The Flame by William Kean Seymour — 1:16
22. 22 - Sramozan by William Kean Seymour — 3:41
23. 23 - “Laughing Lions Will Come” by Sacheverell Sitwell — 9:13
24. 24 - Et in Arcadia, Omnes by Sacheverell Sitwell — 18:15

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