Aucassin and Nicolette: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Aucassin and Nicolette by Unknown: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 6 original MP3 tracks, 1:42:46 running time and a link to listen.
Aucassin and Nicolette, credited to Unknown, 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 Aucassin and Nicolette, translated by Andrew Lang. Read by Leonard Wilson Aucassin and Nicolette is a medieval romance written in a combination of prose and verse called a “song-story.” Created probably in the early 13th century by an unknown French author, the work deals with the love between the son of a count and a Saracen slave girl who has been converted to Christianity and adopted by a viscount. Since Aucassin’s father is strongly opposed to their marriage, the two lovers must endure imprisonment, flight, separation in foreign lands, and many other ordeals before their ardent love and fierce determination finally bring them back together. Aucassin is the very model of an intrepid knight, totally devoted to his love; and Nicolette is daring and ingenious in her staunch perseverance against all odds. This translation, completed in 1887, is by Scottish poet, novelist, critic, and collector of folk tales Andrew Lang (1844-1912). (Introduction by Leonard Wilson)
Recording facts
- Recording title: Aucassin and Nicolette
- Author credits: Unknown
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 6
- Combined MP3 track duration: 1:42:46
Catalogue topics
- poem
- French
- medieval
- romance
- knights
Track guide
- 0 - Section 0 - Introduction and ballades — 17:31
- 1 - Section 1 — 17:18
- 2 - Section 2 — 19:07
- 3 - Section 3 — 21:06
- 4 - Section 4 — 8:37
- 5 - Section 5 — 19:07
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