Wheels - The First Cycle: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Wheels - The First Cycle, credited to Edith Sitwell; Osbert Sitwell; Nancy Cunard; Edward Wyndham Tennant; Sacheverell Sitwell; Iris Tree; Victor Tait Perowne; Helen Rootham; Arnold James, 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 First Cycle by Edith Sitwell; Osbert Sitwell; Nancy Cunard; Edward Wyndham Tennant; Sacheverell Sitwell; Iris Tree; Victor Tait Perowne; Helen Rootham; Arnold James. Read in English by Newgatenovelist; Eva Davis; Nemo; Algy Pug A series of six volumes of Wheels anthologies was produced by members of the Sitwell family, the first in 1916. Apart from Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell, the poets represented in the series include Nancy Cunard, whose family founded the Cunard shipping line, Aldous Huxley and Wilferd Owen, as well as a number of more obscure writers. - Summary by Algy Pug

Recording facts

• Recording title: Wheels - The First Cycle
• Author credits: Edith Sitwell; Osbert Sitwell; Nancy Cunard; Edward Wyndham Tennant; Sacheverell Sitwell; Iris Tree; Victor Tait Perowne; Helen Rootham; Arnold James
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 41
• Listed recording duration: 1:47:11

Opening tracks: first 24 of 41

1. 01 - Preface to the Second Edition — 4:11
2. 02 - Wheels by Nancy Cunard — 2:12
3. 03 - The Beginning by Osbert Sitwell — 2:41
4. 04 - The End by Osbert Sitwell — 2:38
5. 05 - Progress by Osbert Sitwell — 1:30
6. 06 - Prelude by Osbert Sitwell — 1:45
7. 07 - Pierrot Old by Osbert Sitwell — 4:13
8. 08 - Night by Osbert Sitwell — 2:10
9. 09 - 20th Century Harlequinade by Osbert Sitwell — 3:17
10. 10 - 'Therefore is the Name of it called Babel' by Osbert Sitwell — 2:03
11. 11 - The Lament of the Mole-Catcher by Osbert Sitwell — 1:22
12. 12 - Tears by Osbert Sitwell — 1:27
13. 13 - Black Mass by Osbert Sitwell — 5:06
14. 14 - The Carnivals of Peace by Nancy Cunard — 1:18
15. 15 - Destruction by Nancy Cunard — 1:18
16. 16 - Sonnet by Nancy Cunard — 1:23
17. 17 - Remorse by Nancy Cunard — 1:22
18. 18 - Uneasiness by Nancy Cunard — 1:10
19. 19 - From the Train by Nancy Cunard — 1:09
20. 20 - Processions by Edith Sitwell — 0:59
21. 21 - Gaiety by Edith Sitwell — 2:23
22. 22 - Thais in Heaven by Edith Sitwell — 1:26
23. 23 - A Lamentation by Edith Sitwell — 2:59
24. 24 - Antic Hay by Edith Sitwell — 2:18

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