A Crown of Straw: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Crown of Straw, credited to Allen Upward, 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 Crown of Straw by Allen Upward. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. There is a plan afoot to commit murder, but who could be the intended victim? The scene switches to an old forester and his seventeen-year-old daughter, Dorothea, who is enjoying the attentions and gifts of a mysterious stranger. She is innocent and unaware of his intentions, but her father and childhood sweetheart, Johann, are suspicious. There is a web of mystery growing around the court of King Maximilian and the question of his eccentricity (or insanity) and fitness to be king, but the fact remains, he needs a wife and heir to ensure the security of the crown of Franconia. - Summary by LynneT

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Crown of Straw
• Author credits: Allen Upward
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 8:13:32

Catalogue topics

• regency
• insanity
• king
• plot
• regicide

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 00 - Prologue — 23:32
2. 01 - The Garden of Eden — 26:26
3. 02 - The Spy — 20:51
4. 03 - The Princess Hermengarde’s Disclosure — 22:03
5. 04 - A Double Traitor — 20:37
6. 05 - Johann’s Mission — 18:37
7. 06 - King and Regicide — 17:40
8. 07 - Hermengarde’s next Move — 28:57
9. 08 - An Anarchist King — 31:34
10. 09 - Dorothea’s Choice — 22:45
11. 10 - The Cares of a Chancellor — 20:21
12. 11 - Hermengarde drops a Hint — 18:33
13. 12 - Harun al Rashid — 21:31
14. 13 - The State Prison — 21:16
15. 14 - Herr Moritz’s Plan — 17:58
16. 15 - No. 79 — 16:38
17. 16 - The First Warning — 19:15
18. 17 - The Coming of the Kaiser — 16:11
19. 18 - The State Ball — 20:04
20. 19 - A Declaration of War — 19:38
21. 20 - The Second Warning — 15:37
22. 21 - The Blow Falls — 16:17
23. 22 - A Royal Madman — 15:11
24. 23 - Hermengarde’s Triumph — 18:30

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