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Poetics

by Aristotle (384-322 BC)
Translated by Ingram Bywater (1840-1914)

Aristotle’s Poetics from the 4th century B.C. aims to give a short study of storytelling. It discusses things like unity of plot, reversal of situation, and character in the context of Greek tragedy, comedy and epic poetry. But it still applies today. It is especially popular with screenwriters as seen in many script gurus’ how-to books.
(Summary by Robert Foster)

• Gutenberg e-text
• Wikipedia – Aristotle
• Wikipedia – Poetics
• M4B audiobook of book
• LibriVox’s Poetics Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire book (69.1MB)
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Read by Robert Foster

Total runtime: 2:23:49

mp3 and ogg files

• Preface – 00:25:21
  [mp3@64kbps - 12.1MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 24.3MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 14.3MB]
• Chapters 1-3 – 00:09:07
  [mp3@64kbps - 4.3MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 8.7MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 5.2MB]
• Chapters 4-5 – 00:09:45
  [mp3@64kbps - 4.6MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 9.3MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 5.5MB]
• Chapters 6-8 – 00:13:20
  [mp3@64kbps - 6.4MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 12.8MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 7.6MB]
• Chapters 9-13 – 00:15:20
  [mp3@64kbps - 7.3MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 14.7MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 8.8MB]
• Chapter 14 – 00:05:28
  [mp3@64kbps - 2.6MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 5.2MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 3.1MB]
• Chapters 15-16 – 00:08:35
  [mp3@64kbps - 4.1MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 8.2MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 4.9MB]
• Chapters 17-19 – 00:10:52
  [mp3@64kbps - 5.2MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 10.4MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 6.1MB]
• Chapters 20-21 – 00:13:21
  [mp3@64kbps - 6.4MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 12.8MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 7.7MB]
• Chapters 22-24 – 00:16:41
  [mp3@64kbps - 8.0MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 16.0MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 9.5MB]
• Chapters 25-26 – 00:15:59
  [mp3@64kbps - 7.6MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 15.3MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 9.2MB]

Cataloged on March 06, 2006