Years of My Youth: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Years of My Youth, credited to William Dean Howells, 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 Years of My Youth by William Dean Howells. Read in English by Ted Lienhart. After the Civil War William Dean Howells served for 15 years as Assistant Editor and then Editor of the prestigious 'Atlantic' Magazine. For the remainder of the 19th Century he was a prolific and respected novelist. 'Years of My Youth' is his remembrance of his early years in Ohio, which he published in 1916 near the end of his life. The book spans the period from his earliest memories until his early 20s, at the beginning of the Civil War. The book is an unusually reflective chronicle that richly portrays the culture and issues of the 1840s and 1850s in the American Midwest. - Summary by Ted Lienhart

Recording facts

• Recording title: Years of My Youth
• Author credits: William Dean Howells
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Combined MP3 track duration: 7:49:01

Catalogue topics

• authors
• novelists
• biography & autobiography
• american - childhood and youth
• american - 19th century - biography
• critics - united states - biography
• ohio - social life and customs

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter 1 — 27:48
2. 02 - Ch 1, part IV — 27:22
3. 03 - Ch 1, part VI — 29:17
4. 04 - Ch 1, part VIII — 40:25
5. 05 - Chapter 2 — 30:04
6. 06 - Ch 2, part IV — 28:46
7. 07 - Ch 2, part VIII — 25:32
8. 08 - Ch 2, part XI — 38:12
9. 09 - Chapter 3 — 31:59
10. 10 - Ch 3, part V — 26:31
11. 11 - Ch 3, part VIII — 31:22
12. 12 - Ch 3, part XI — 9:53
13. 13 - Chapter 4 — 30:32
14. 14 - Ch 4, part IV — 26:38
15. 15 - Ch 4, part VIII — 36:23
16. 16 - Ch 4, part XII — 28:16

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