Companionable Books
Henry van Dyke
Read by MaryAnn
Many books are dry and dusty, there is no juice in them; and many are soon exhausted, you would no more go back to them than to a squeezed orange; but some have in them an unfailing sap, both from the tree of knowledge and the tree of life. Here I have written about a few of these books which have borne me good company, in one way or another, -- and about their authors, who have put the best of themselves into their work. Such criticism as the volume contains is therefore mainly in the form of appreciation with reasons for it. So I send forth my new ship, hoping only that it may carry something desirable from each of the ports where it has taken on cargo, and that it may not be sunk by the enemy before it touches at a few friendly harbors. (Henry van Dyke) (6 hr 44 min)
Chapters
| Preface | 2:06 | Read by MaryAnn |
| The Book of Books | 32:47 | Read by MaryAnn |
| Poetry in the Psalms | 28:44 | Read by MaryAnn |
| The Good Enchantment of Dickens | 43:46 | Read by MaryAnn |
| Thackeray and Real Men | 27:46 | Read by MaryAnn |
| George Eliot and Real Women | 35:23 | Read by MaryAnn |
| The Poet of Immortal Youth (Keats) | 24:45 | Read by MaryAnn |
| The Recovery of Joy (Wordsworth) | 45:44 | Read by MaryAnn |
| ''The Glory of the Imperfect'' (Browning) | 1:01:13 | Read by MaryAnn |
| A Quaint Comrade by Quiet Streams (Walton) | 16:30 | Read by MaryAnn |
| A Sturdy Believer (Samuel Johnson) | 24:44 | Read by MaryAnn |
| A Puritan Plus Poetry (Emerson) | 23:27 | Read by MaryAnn |
| An Adventurer in a Velvet Jacket (Stevenson) | 37:40 | Read by MaryAnn |