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Young Adventure, A Book of Poems

Public domain audiobook

Young Adventure, A Book of Poems

by Stephen Vincent Benét

English· 1:22:43· 17 chapters
Stephen Vincent Benét (July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943) was an American author, poet, short story writer and novelist. He is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body (1928), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and for two short stories, "The Devil and Daniel Webster" and "By the Waters of Babylon".

It was a line of Benet's poetry that gave the title to Dee Brown's famous history of the destruction of Native American tribes by the United States: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. (Summary excerpted from Wikipedia)

This recording includes the Dedication, Foreword and first 16 poems from Young Adventure, A Book of Poems.

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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    Dedication and Foreword

    06:20
  2. Chapter 2

    The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun

    21:31
  3. Chapter 3

    Rain after a Vaudeville Show

    02:25
  4. Chapter 4

    The City Revisited

    03:04
  5. Chapter 5

    Going Back to School

    02:18
  6. Chapter 6

    Nos Immortales

    01:24
  7. Chapter 7

    Young Blood

    03:14
  8. Chapter 8

    The Quality of Courage

    08:42
  9. Chapter 9

    Campus Sonnets: 1) Before an Examination, 2) Talk, 3) May Morning, 4) Return -- 1917

    04:13
  10. Chapter 10

    Alexander VI Dines with the Cardinal of Capua

    03:25
  11. Chapter 11

    The Breaking Point

    02:12
  12. Chapter 12

    Lonely Burial

    01:29
  13. Chapter 13

    Dinner in a Quick Lunch Room

    01:37
  14. Chapter 14

    The Hemp

    08:53
  15. Chapter 15

    Poor Devil!

    02:08
  16. Chapter 16

    Ghosts of a Lunatic Asylum

    01:37
  17. Chapter 17

    The White Peacock

    08:11