Wonderful London: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Wonderful London, credited to Anonymous, 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 Wonderful London by Anonymous. Read in English by Peter Yearsley "Wonderful London, its lights and shadows of humour and sadness". (That's the full title of the book.) A collection of short essays, studded with conversation, on aspects of Victorian London life, seen through the eyes of a middle-class narrator. NOTES: 1 A "ticket of leave" is a document of parole issued to convicts who can be trusted with a degree of freedom. 2 In Chapter three, a "cornopean" is a reed organ. 3 In Chapter twenty, "negus" is a drink made from port mixed with hot water, citrus fruit, spices and sugar. (Summary by Peter Yearsley)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Wonderful London
• Author credits: Anonymous
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 41
• Listed recording duration: 14:13:48

Opening tracks: first 24 of 41

1. 01 - The Ghosts of the London Midnight — 25:21
2. 02 - The Ugliest Street in London — 28:00
3. 03 - Some Curious Performers — 28:40
4. 04 - At a Little Dinner in Tatter-Street — 29:12
5. 05 - Saturday Night at The Cat — 28:18
6. 06 - Girl Labour in London — 30:49
7. 07 - The Stable Side of Mayfair — 27:48
8. 08 - Opposite a Cabstand — 21:16
9. 09 - A Stroll in Baldwin's Gardens — 18:01
10. 10 - London Society in a 'Flat' — 21:48
11. 11 - The Foreign Settlement in Soho — 49:32
12. 12 - Rooked in the City — 18:07
13. 13 - All over London — 17:39
14. 14 - Outsiders of society, and their homes in London — 44:42
15. 15 - The London 'Rough' — 12:02
16. 16 - Lodgers in the Suburbs — 13:44
17. 17 - The Londoner's Spring — 25:50
18. 18 - London Life and Country Life — 44:34
19. 19 - The Last Man in Town — 13:56
20. 20 - Picturesque London — 20:20
21. 21 - Sketches from an Office Window — 22:24
22. 22 - Half an Hour in a Servants' Registry Office — 45:38
23. 23 - A shady industry — 12:18
24. 24 - The vampire bride — 16:54

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