Companionable Books
Henry van Dyke
Leído por MaryAnn
Many books are dry and dusty, there is no juice in them; and many are soon exhausted, you would no more go back to them than to a squeezed orange; but some have in them an unfailing sap, both from the tree of knowledge and the tree of life. Here I have written about a few of these books which have borne me good company, in one way or another, -- and about their authors, who have put the best of themselves into their work. Such criticism as the volume contains is therefore mainly in the form of appreciation with reasons for it. So I send forth my new ship, hoping only that it may carry something desirable from each of the ports where it has taken on cargo, and that it may not be sunk by the enemy before it touches at a few friendly harbors. (Henry van Dyke) (6 hr 44 min)
Capítulos
| Preface | 2:06 | Leído por MaryAnn |
| The Book of Books | 32:47 | Leído por MaryAnn |
| Poetry in the Psalms | 28:44 | Leído por MaryAnn |
| The Good Enchantment of Dickens | 43:46 | Leído por MaryAnn |
| Thackeray and Real Men | 27:46 | Leído por MaryAnn |
| George Eliot and Real Women | 35:23 | Leído por MaryAnn |
| The Poet of Immortal Youth (Keats) | 24:45 | Leído por MaryAnn |
| The Recovery of Joy (Wordsworth) | 45:44 | Leído por MaryAnn |
| ''The Glory of the Imperfect'' (Browning) | 1:01:13 | Leído por MaryAnn |
| A Quaint Comrade by Quiet Streams (Walton) | 16:30 | Leído por MaryAnn |
| A Sturdy Believer (Samuel Johnson) | 24:44 | Leído por MaryAnn |
| A Puritan Plus Poetry (Emerson) | 23:27 | Leído por MaryAnn |
| An Adventurer in a Velvet Jacket (Stevenson) | 37:40 | Leído por MaryAnn |