A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (version 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (version 2), credited to Nathaniel Hawthorne, 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 reading of A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne Read in English by Mike Pelton; deongines; Lisa Goad; Michael Fassio; Tom Penn; David Lawrence; Rubygleber and Warren Kati. THE author has long been of opinion that many of the classical myths were capable of being rendered into very capital reading for children. In the little volume here offered to the public, he has worked up half a dozen of them, with this end in view. A great freedom of treatment was necessary to his plan; but they remain essentially the same, after changes that would affect the identity of almost anything else. (Lenox - from the Preface (July 15, 1851)

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (version 2)
• Author credits: Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 22
• Listed recording duration: 5:34:41

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• fairy tales
• pandora
• children's

Track guide

1. 01 - Introductory to the Gorgon's Head — 10:49
2. 02 - The Gorgon's Head Part 1 — 27:38
3. 03 - The Gorgon's Head Part 2 — 27:29
4. 04 - After the Story of the Gorgon’s head — 3:37
5. 05 - Introductory to the Golden Touch — 6:28
6. 06 - The Golden Touch — 38:31
7. 07 - After the Story of the Golden Touch — 5:26
8. 08 - Introductory to the Paradise of Children — 5:27
9. 09 - The Paradise of Children — 35:32
10. 10 - After the Story of the Paradise of Children — 2:25
11. 11 - Introductory to the Three Golden Apples — 10:12
12. 12 - The Three Golden Apples Part 1 — 18:24
13. 13 - The Three Golden Apples Part 2 — 24:53
14. 14 - After the Story of the Three Golden Apples — 5:01
15. 15 - Introductory to the Miraculous Pitcher — 5:06
16. 16 - The Miraculous Pitcher Part 1 — 17:03
17. 17 - The Miraculous Pitcher Part 2 — 25:49
18. 18 - After the Story of the Miraculous Pitcher — 2:33
19. 19 - Introductory to the Chimaera — 6:02
20. 20 - The Chimaera Part 1 — 15:59
21. 21 - The Chimaera Part 2 — 32:47
22. 22 - After the Story of the Chimaera — 7:30

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