History of a Literary Radical, and Other Essays
Randolph Silliman Bourne
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A posthumous collection of Bourne's writing from publications such as The Atlantic Monthly and early issues of The New Republic, with a long introduction by his friend and colleague Van Wyck Brooks. Includes the influential and perennially relevant essay "Trans-National America" as well as a fragment from the autobiographical novel on which Bourne was working at the time of his death. - Summary by Ben Adams (8 hr 13 min)
Chapters
Introduction | 38:29 | Read by Ben Adams |
History of a Literary Radical | 39:38 | Read by Ben Adams |
Our Cultural Humility | 17:14 | Read by Ben Adams |
Six Portraits, part 1 | 43:44 | Read by Ben Adams |
Six Portraits, part 2 | 31:11 | Read by Ben Adams |
This Older Generation | 26:31 | Read by Ben Adams |
A Mirror of the Middle West | 15:00 | Read by Greg Giordano |
Ernest: or a Parent for a Day | 43:16 | Read by Meliora Dockery |
On Discussion | 10:46 | Read by ktolber76 |
The Puritan's Will to Power | 18:24 | Read by Rita Boutros |
The Immanence of Dostoevsky | 8:46 | Read by Greg Giordano |
The Art of Theodore Dreister | 16:10 | Read by Rita Boutros |
The Uses of Infallibility | 30:04 | Read by KHand |
Impressions of Europe | 54:25 | Read by Henry K. Noble |
Trans-National America | 47:27 | Read by sierasimone |
Fragment of a Novel | 52:05 | Read by KHand |