A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines, credited to Clayton Edwards, 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 Treasury of Heroes and Heroines, by Clayton Edwards. It would be pleasant indeed to gather the characters of this book together and listen to the conversation of wholly different but interested couples—for this is a book of contrasts and has been written as such. Lives of the most dramatic and adventurous quality have been gathered from all corners of the earth, and from every age in history, in such a way that they may cover the widest possible variety of human experience. The publishers believe that such a book would not be complete without some characters that are no less real because they have lived only in the minds of men. No explanation is needed for semi-historical characters like King Arthur, Robin Hood and William Tell, while Don Quixote, the Prince of Madness, and Rip Van Winkle, the Prince of Laziness, have been included, not because they were essentially heroic in themselves (although Don Quixote might well have claimed the laurel) but because they became heroes in the opinion of others through the very qualities that brought about their downfall. As involuntary heroes, they furnish a pleasant contrast to the more serious, actual and transcendental figures of saints, martyrs, warriors, discoverers and statesmen with which these pages are filled; they enrich the "Treasury," widen its range of colors and perform the necessary function of court jesters in the Hall of Fame. (Summary From the Preface)

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines
• Author credits: Clayton Edwards
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 33
• Listed recording duration: 11:40:14

Catalogue topics

• heroes
• stories
• adventure
• biography
• children

Opening tracks: first 24 of 33

1. 01 - Buddha — 28:44
2. 02 - Julius Caesar — 30:03
3. 03 - Saint Patrick — 12:33
4. 04 - King Arthur of Britain — 22:12
5. 05 - Mohammed — 22:56
6. 06 - Alfred the Great — 31:16
7. 07 - Robin Hood — 12:05
8. 08 - Saint Elizabeth of Hungary — 16:09
9. 09 - Dante — 19:46
10. 10 - Robert Bruce — 24:58
11. 11 - Jeanne D'Arc — 27:02
12. 12 - Christopher Columbus — 28:58
13. 13 - William the Silent — 23:54
14. 14 - Queen Elizabeth of England — 22:28
15. 15 - Sir Francis Drake — 23:45
16. 16 - Henry Hudson — 20:50
17. 17 - Peter the Great — 17:44
18. 18 - George Washington — 35:03
19. 19 - John Paul Jones — 21:12
20. 20 - Molly Pitcher — 11:53
21. 21 - Napoleon Bonaparte — 36:44
22. 22 - Giuseppe Garibaldi — 15:46
23. 23 - Abraham Lincoln — 30:50
24. 24 - Grace Darling — 13:36

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