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Author(s): Gibbon, Edward
Reader(s): Timson, David
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Non-Fiction
Catalogue No: NA0191
Barcode: 9781843798750
Release Date: 01/2014
GIBBON, E.: Memoirs of My Life (Unabridged)
Tracklist
Disc 1
Gibbon, Edward - Author
Timson, David (Reader)
|  | 1 | In the fifty-second year of my age… | 09:08 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 2 | My family is originally derived from the county of Kent. | 10:30 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 3 | It is not two years since I acquired, in a foreign land… | 09:53 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 4 | My grandfather could not expect to be treated… | 09:34 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 5 | I was born at Putney, in the county of Surrey… | 08:14 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 6 | After this previous institution at home… | 09:45 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 7 | As far back as I can remember, the house, near Putney Bridge… | 10:59 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 8 | The curiosity, which had been implanted in my infant mind… | 09:49 |
Timson, David (Reader)
Disc 2
| | 1 | A venerable prelate, whose taste and erudition… | 09:48 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 2 | The college of St Mary Magdalen… | 08:27 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 3 | The long recess between the Trinity and Michaelmas terms… | 09:57 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 4 | In these dispositions, and already more than half a convert… | 10:21 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 5 | Bayle was the son of a Calvinist minister… | 10:30 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 6 | But it is the peculiar felicity of youth… | 08:02 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 7 | Such, from my arrival at Lausanne… | 10:22 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 8 | From a blind idea of the usefulness… | 11:56 |
Timson, David (Reader)
Disc 3
| | 1 | Before I was recalled from Switzerland… | 09:04 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 2 | If my childish revolt against the religion of my country… | 09:14 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 3 | Of the two years (May 1758-May 1760) between my return… | 08:45 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 4 | If in a more domestic or more dissipated scene… | 11:36 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 5 | Two years elapsed in silence… | 08:05 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 6 | At Lausanne I composed the first chapters… | 10:53 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 7 | The loss of so many busy and idle hours… | 08:50 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 8 | Beriton, April 14, 1761. | 12:55 |
Timson, David (Reader)
Disc 4
| | 1 | But the principal end of my journey was to enjoy… | 11:14 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 2 | If my studies at Paris had been confined… | 11:47 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 3 | On the 25th June 1765, I arrived at my father's house… | 10:32 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 4 | It was in search of some liberal and lucrative employment… | 11:17 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 5 | In the fifteen years between my Essay… | 11:28 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 6 | I had now attained the first of earthly blessings… | 10:00 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 7 | That curious and original letter will amuse the reader… | 13:11 |
Timson, David (Reader)
Disc 5
| | 1 | The profession and rank of Sir David Dalrymple… | 10:01 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 2 | I perceived, and without surprise, the coldness… | 07:41 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 3 | From my early acquaintance with Lausanne… | 08:39 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 4 | My transmigration from London to Lausanne… | 09:44 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 5 | From this display of genius… | 09:18 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 6 | I am less flattered by Mr Porson's high encomium… | 09:03 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 7 | Within the last two or three years… | 13:36 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 8 | Gibbon was to live another six years… | 06:53 |
Timson, David (Reader)
Total Playing Time: 06:31:01