arnold bennett – Games From Folktales

April 23, 2011March 3, 2013

The Literary Taste Lists: How Complete is Librivox? The Nineteenth Century

This is the third, and likely last, post which compares the Librviox database of free audiobooks with the lists provided by Arnold Bennett, a Nineteenth Century literary critic. So far Librivox has been sparse on the Seventeenth Century, and solid on the Eighteenth Century. How will it do in this, final*, list? As before, items in…

April 22, 2011April 22, 2011

The Literary Taste Lists: How Complete is Librivox? The Eighteenth Century

A second post analysing Librivox’s completeness, from the perspective of Arnold Bennett’s Literary Taste: How to Form It. Librivox doesn’t have a lot of Seventeenth Century coverage, but I think it may do somewhat better in the Eighteenth. Let’s see, shall we? As before, black is for unrecorded works, orange for partially completed works, and green…

April 21, 2011

The Literary Taste Lists: how complete is Librivox? The Seventeenth Century

This month the Librivox book club is listening to Literary Taste: How to form it, by Arnold Bennett. In that book, among other things, he lists 339 works which he believes are essential to having a sound library. The obvious question was asked: how many of these books has Librivox recorded? Can you grab your MP3 player…