A Collection of Ballads: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Collection of Ballads, credited to Andrew Lang, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of A Collection of Ballads by Andrew Lang. Read in English by Lynda Marie Neilson; Tony Addison; Aisling; Emma Charlotte; Vaishnavi; Mack Caster; Phil Schempf; aniroo This is a collection of ballads, edited, with an introduction and notes by Andrew Lang. The ballads range widely in style, from the historic to the romantic, from the short to the epic, from Scotland to France. Some of the material is the fabric of well-known fairy-tales, others have a historical core, and again others are myths. In any case, every reader and listener should be able to find a poem in this collection that matches their particular style or mood. - Summary by Carolin

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Collection of Ballads
• Author credits: Andrew Lang
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 56
• Listed recording duration: 6:25:25

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• poem
• Epic
• scotland
• myths
• england
• lang
• ballad

Opening tracks: first 24 of 56

1. 01 - Introduction — 22:30
2. 02 - Sir Patrick Spens — 6:05
3. 03 - Battle of Otterbourne — 7:57
4. 04 - Tam Lin — 12:05
5. 05 - Thomas the Rhymer — 5:35
6. 06 - Sir Hugh, or the Jew’s Daughter — 3:46
7. 07 - Son Davie! Son Davie! — 3:10
8. 08 - The Wife of Usher’s Well — 3:00
9. 09 - The Twa Corbies — 1:42
10. 10 - The Bonnie Earl Moray — 2:43
11. 11 - Clerk Saunders — 7:53
12. 12 - Waly, Waly — 2:51
13. 13 - Love Gregor, or, the Lass of Lochroyan — 6:41
14. 14 - The Queen’s Marie — 5:07
15. 15 - Kinmont Willie — 12:58
16. 16 - Jamie Telfer — 13:30
17. 17 - The Douglas Tragedy — 5:08
18. 18 - The Bonny Hind — 3:57
19. 19 - Young Bicham — 5:44
20. 20 - The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman — 5:20
21. 21 - The Bonnie House o’ Airly — 2:44
22. 22 - Rob Roy — 2:12
23. 23 - The Battle of Killie-Crankie — 3:49
24. 24 - Annan Water — 3:52

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