A Fool There Was: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Fool There Was, credited to Porter Emerson Browne, 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 Fool There Was by Porter Emerson Browne. Read in English by Roger Melin Two friends were asked by their respective fathers on their death beds to promise to marry a special girl, who lived across the street and who they had been very fond of since childhood. Once they reached young manhood, one of these fulfilled his father's wish. The story takes off from there, and, while all three continued to be very close to one another as they grew older, the married man was sent abroad on business, allowing his friend to take care of his wife and child while he was away. While overseas, the married man fell into temptation. Many twists and turns, as well as surprises were to follow, rendering the reader curious as to how it would all turn out. ( Roger Melin)

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Fool There Was
• Author credits: Porter Emerson Browne
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 19
• Listed recording duration: 5:39:48

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• family
• ethics
• polyamorous

Track guide

1. 01 - Of Certain People; Of Certain Other People — 21:20
2. 02 - Two Boys and a Girl; The Child and the Stranger — 14:21
3. 03 - As Time Passes; An Accident — 17:29
4. 04 - An Incident; Of Certain Goings — 14:14
5. 05 - Of Certain Other Goings; Two Boys and a Doctor — 6:31
6. 06 - A Proposal; A Foreign Mission — 23:45
7. 07 - The Going; Parmalee - and the Woman — 23:24
8. 08 - A Warning; The Beginning — 25:51
9. 09 - In the Night — 6:34
10. 10 - White Roses; Shadows — 18:27
11. 11 - A Fairy Story; The Letter — 15:34
12. 12 - Again the Fairy Story; Aid — 10:37
13. 13 - The Rescue; The Return — 14:50
14. 14 - The Red Rose; The Red Road — 21:16
15. 15 - The Battle; Defeat — 21:09
16. 16 - And It's Consequences; That Which Men Said — 11:31
17. 17 - In the Garden; Temptation — 18:56
18. 18 - The Shroud of a Soul; The Thing That Was a Man — 22:40
19. 19 - Again the Battle; The Pity of it All — 31:19

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