Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great

About this film

LibriVox recording of Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great, by Elbert Hubbard. Read in English by Mike Pelton; Lynne Thompson; Garth Burton; ToddHW; Luke Sartor; KHand; Denise Nordell; Erin Schellhase; TriciaG. Elbert Hubbard visits the homes of authors, politicians, poets, philosophers and other prestigious people. If they are still living he speaks with them about their work. If they are dead he reflects on how their surroundings may have influenced them. These short essays are part biography, part interview and part pontification of Hubbard's opinion of the subject and their oeuvre. In this volume he reflects on his own life, as well as on those of George Eliot, Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, William E. Gladstone, J.M.W. Turner, Jonathan Swift, Walt Whitman, Victor Hugo, William Wordsworth, William M. Thackeray, Charles Dickens, Oliver Goldsmith, William Shakespeare and Thomas A. Edison. This is Volume 1 in a series of 14 volumes on Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great. Summary by Lucy Perry. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for…

Directors & creators

Elbert Hubbard

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;essays; biographies; famous people

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