Being a Boy
Charles Dudley Warner
Read by Mark Penfold
Warner's thoughtful and often humorous memoir of his life as a young farm-boy in Charlemont, Massachusetts. (Introduction by Mark Penfold) (3 hr 5 min)
Chapters
01 - Being a Boy | 7:32 | Read by Mark Penfold |
02 - The Boy as a Farmer | 7:14 | Read by Mark Penfold |
03 - The Delights of Farming | 7:31 | Read by Mark Penfold |
04 - No Farming Without a Boy | 7:59 | Read by Mark Penfold |
05 - The Boy's Sunday | 7:55 | Read by Mark Penfold |
06 - The Grindstone of Life | 8:34 | Read by Mark Penfold |
07 - Fiction and Sentiment | 8:43 | Read by Mark Penfold |
08 - The Coming of Thanksgiving | 8:31 | Read by Mark Penfold |
09 - The Season of Pumpkin-Pie | 7:31 | Read by Mark Penfold |
10 - First Experience of The World | 8:12 | Read by Mark Penfold |
11 - Home Inventions | 10:00 | Read by Mark Penfold |
12 - The Lonely Farmhouse | 8:30 | Read by Mark Penfold |
13 - John's First Party | 11:06 | Read by Mark Penfold |
14 - The Sugar Camp | 10:13 | Read by Mark Penfold |
15 - The Heart of New England | 11:25 | Read by Mark Penfold |
16 - John's Revival | 16:21 | Read by Mark Penfold |
17 - War | 13:50 | Read by Mark Penfold |
18 - Country Scenes | 15:53 | Read by Mark Penfold |
19 - A Contrast to The New England Boy | 8:26 | Read by Mark Penfold |
Reviews
so precious
Momma Gayle
wonderful voice in which the author speaks. 1st/3rd person simultaneously. and the reader is a new favorite. I can actually HEAR him smile as he reads the humorous parts.
A LibriVox Listener
great book! made me imagine many lovely and interesting scenes. also made me want to relive my farm home childhood.