A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys, 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 recording of A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Read in English by Clive Catterall A Yankee student stays at a country house called Tanglewood during a golden New England fall. Also at the house are about a dozen children: younger cousins of the student and their friends of varying ages. The student, as much to amuse himself as to amuse the children, organises games and activities and tells stories. And the stories he tells are wild and fantastic. When his store of fairy tales and folk legends is exhausted he hits on the idea of retelling Greek Myths in his own style. We visit Tanglewood six times during the course of a year and hear six of the student's beautifully told stories: The Gorgon's Head, The Golden Touch, A Paradise of Children, The Three Golden Apples, The Miraculous Pitcher and The Chimaera. (Summary by Clive Catterall)

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys
• Author credits: Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 14
• Listed recording duration: 5:08:41

Catalogue topics

• Greek
• Myth
• Children's Fiction
• Gothic
• Legends
• Fairy Tales

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 2:52
2. 01 - Chapter 1 Part 1 - The Gorgon's Head — 23:26
3. 02 - Chapter 1 Part 2 - The Gorgon's Head — 20:42
4. 03 - Chapter 1 Part 3 - The Gorgon's Head — 16:47
5. 04 - Chapter 2 Part 1 - The Golden Touch — 20:53
6. 05 - Chapter 2 Part 2 - The Golden Touch — 23:49
7. 06 - Chapter 3 Part 1 - The Paradise of Children — 23:16
8. 07 - Chapter 3 Part 2 - The Paradise of Children — 16:57
9. 08 - Chapter 4 Part 1 - The Three Golden Apples — 25:37
10. 09 - Chapter 4 Part 2 - The Three Golden Apples — 28:21
11. 10 - Chapter 5 Part 1 - The Miraculous Pitcher — 23:33
12. 11 - Chapter 5 Part 2 - The Miraculous Pitcher — 23:45
13. 12 - Chapter 6 Part 1 - The Chimaera — 28:55
14. 13 - Chapter 6 Part 2 - The Chimaera — 29:47

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