# Figures of Several Centuries

An audiobook by Arthur Symons, read by LibriVox volunteers (8 h 59 min, English).

Arthur Symons talks through the histories and works of poets, playwrights, scholars and scribes. He provides both personal experience and critical wonder to the worlds of his subjects; Donne, Ibsen, Baudelaire and Emily Brontë among them. Summary by Josh Kirsh.

[Listen](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/10558)
[Read the book](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/gutenberg/21407/read)