Lavender Lit 101 Audiobook (FREE)

Description

This is a collection of 30 American and European gay, lesbian, & bisexual writers from the 16th thru early 20th Centuries. Heavy on poetry — including a rousing WWI anthem from 1915 — with a few short stories and essays. Non-English works should be read where possible in their original language.

Audiobook Overview:

Title: Lavender Lit 101 – International LGB Literature up to 1923
Author: Various
Format: MP3 (.zip)

Contents:

00:00:00 – 01 – A Night Among the Horses, by Djuna Barnes
00:20:39 – 02 – Correspondence, by William Beckford
00:26:09 – 03 – The Cornelian, by Lord Byron
00:29:21 – 04 – The Near Enemy, by Natalie Clifford Barney
00:30:42 – 05 – Fragments from Igor Stravinsky, by Jean Cocteau, Trans by Rollo Myers
00:50:51 – 06 – E. Maxwell Snurge, by Noel Coward
00:58:35 – 07 – Hymen, by Hilda Doolittle
01:19:33 – 08 – Chapter 6, Howards End, by E. M. Forster
01:41:13 – 09 – ‘Recollections of Oscar Wilde’ by Andre Gide, trans. Percival Pollard
02:17:43 – 10 – Ode to Sappho, by Radclyffe Hall
02:22:38 – 11 – Three Poems, by Langston Hughes
02:25:04 – 12 – Brooksmith, by Henry James
03:12:26 – 13 – Prelude to ‘Royal Highness’, by Thomas Mann, trans A Cecil Curtis
03:19:38 – 14 – Hero and Leander, by Christopher Marlowe
04:11:49 – 15 – Faith, by W. Somerset Maugham
04:46:43 – 16 – Keep the Home Fires Burning!, by Ivor Novello, lyrics by Mrs. Ford
04:50:03 – 17 – Anthem For Doomed Youth, by Wilfred Owen
04:51:28 – 18 – Overture excerpt, from Swann’s Way, by Marcel Proust, trans by C.K. Scott-Moncrieff
05:00:48 – 19 – Sleeper of the Valley, by Arthur Rimbaud, trans by Ludwig Lewisohn
05:02:24 – 20 – Full Moon, by Vita Sackville-West
05:03:32 – 21 – A Letter Home, by Sigfried Sassoon
05:06:40 – 22 – Mrs. Whitehead, by Gertrude Stein
05:11:39 – 23 – Preface to Eminent Victorians, by Lytton Strachey
05:17:10 – 24 – Birds in the Night, by Paul Verlaine – trans G. Hall
05:23:18 – 25 – The Closing Door, by Angelina Weld Grimké
05:53:51 – 26 – Invocation, by Renée Vivien
05:56:56 – 27 – I Sing The Body Electric!, by Walt Whitman
06:14:46 – 28 – The Sphinx, by Oscar Wilde
06:31:28 – 29 – Monday or Tuesday, by Virginia Woolf