Wine and Roses: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Wine and Roses, credited to Victor Daley, 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 Wine and Roses by Victor Daley. Read in English by Algy Pug; Meetali10; Alan Mapstone; Sonia; Larry Wilson; Karen V. ; nighthawks; E.J. Lavery; Tomas Peter; Kurt; Andrew Gaunce; Wayne Cooke; Deandra; TJ Burns; Anthony Joseph; Phil Schempf; Soeun (Kelly) Park; Jayhawk1900; Son of the Exiles; Paul Harvey; Ellies; Sarah B; Meg Bernardo "Victor Daley, then a happy, wondering Irish lad, drifted out to Australia. His head was full of old tunes and fragments of poetry; his pocket was nearly empty. The sunshine and freedom of Australia delighted him, and, in careless, vagabond fashion he enjoyed the fleeting pleasures of the day with little thought of the morrow. A good companion, " a fellow of infinite jest," life to him was a gallant spectacle, which he loved to look at and did not take seriously. Worldly success never tempted him, for he was a Bohemian by birth; but he was also descendant of a bardic sept, and he wanted to be a poet. So he wrote verses charged with the melancholy regret of the Celt for vanished glories and the beauty of remote things, dainty opalescent lyrics with hints of fairy music, witty and ironic verse on passing events, and, occasionally, prose sketches. When the pressure of hard realities brought sorrow into his life he wrote more gaily and vigorously than ever. For twenty years or more he charmed a large number of readers. In this thinly-peopled continent the makers of verse are numerous, and though Daley never appealed to so large an audience as the ballad writers, he was the writer best beloved of the writing clan." - Summary from the book "Wine and Roses"

Recording facts

• Recording title: Wine and Roses
• Author credits: Victor Daley
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 72
• Listed recording duration: 3:01:19

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• australian
• Celtic

Opening tracks: first 24 of 72

1. 00 - Memoir — 16:57
2. 01 - Romance — 5:02
3. 02 - Anacreon — 1:18
4. 03 - The Woods of Dandenong — 1:48
5. 04 - The Soldan's Daughter — 2:54
6. 05 - The Quest of Brahma — 5:42
7. 06 - Desire — 3:50
8. 07 - Sheelah — 1:19
9. 08 - The Road of Roses — 1:31
10. 09 - Avatar — 1:14
11. 10 - Impression — 1:21
12. 11 - Paudheen's Fairy — 1:58
13. 12 - Spring Song — 2:17
14. 13 - The Land of Laissez Faire — 5:28
15. 14 - Players — 1:45
16. 15 - Blanchelys — 4:45
17. 16 - Over The Wine — 3:08
18. 17 - Bacchanalian — 2:02
19. 18 - The Old Bohemian — 2:52
20. 19 - The Poet and the Muse — 3:08
21. 20 - Adieu, Bohemia! — 2:55
22. 21 - The Requiter — 1:10
23. 22 - Titania — 1:34
24. 23 - The Tryst — 5:57

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