AdventureFairy Tales & Folklore

Songs of a Sentimental Bloke

by

  • 1915 first published
  • 🎧 2 h 08 min free audiobook
Listen freeFind in a library

C. J. Dennis's Songs of a Sentimental Bloke (1915) is an adventure fiction and folklore and fairy tales novel.

A free LibriVox audiobook (2 h 08 min) is available.

About Songs of a Sentimental Bloke

The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke is a verse novel by Australian novelist and poet C. J. Dennis. The book sold over 60,000 copies in nine editions within the first year, and is probably one of the highest selling verse novels ever published in Australia. The novel tells the story of Bill, a larrikin of the Little Lonsdale Street Push, who is introduced to a young woman by the name of Doreen. The book chronicles their courtship and marriage, detailing Bill's transformation from a violence-prone gang member to a contented husband and father. C.J. Dennis went on to publish three sequels to this novel: The Moods of Ginger Mick (1916), Doreen (1917) and Rose of Spadgers (1924(Introduction from Wikipedia)
Description from LibriVox

Free audiobook

Songs of a Sentimental Bloke — LibriVox recording, 2 h 08 min in 16 sections.

Public-domain recording by volunteer readers. Listen online, download MP3s or stream from the Internet Archive.

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Quick answers

Who wrote Songs of a Sentimental Bloke?

Songs of a Sentimental Bloke was written by C. J. Dennis and first published in 1915.

What genre is Songs of a Sentimental Bloke?

It is usually shelved as Adventure and Fairy Tales & Folklore.

Is there a free audiobook of Songs of a Sentimental Bloke?

Yes — LibriVox volunteers recorded it; the recording runs 2 h 08 min.

What books are similar to Songs of a Sentimental Bloke?

Readers who like it often enjoy Five Children and It, A Princess of Mars and Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz.

More by C. J. Dennis

All books →

Books like Songs of a Sentimental Bloke