Buttered Side Down: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Buttered Side Down, credited to Edna Ferber, 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 Buttered Side Down by Edna Ferber. Read by Madera. "And so," the story writers used to say, "they lived happily ever after." Um-m-m—maybe. After the glamour had worn off, and the glass slippers were worn out, did the Prince never find Cinderella's manner redolent of the kitchen hearth; and was it never necessary that he remind her to be more careful of her finger-nails and grammar? After Puss in Boots had won wealth and a wife for his young master did not that gentleman often fume with chagrin because the neighbors, perhaps, refused to call on the lady of the former poor miller's son? It is a great risk to take with one's book-children. These stories make no such promises. They stop just short of the phrase of the old story writers, and end truthfully, thus: And so they lived. E. F.(Summary from the Foreword to "Buttered Side Down) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org. M4B Audiobook (126MB)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Buttered Side Down
• Author credits: Edna Ferber
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 13
• Listed recording duration: 4:35:45

Catalogue topics

• short stories
• fiction

Track guide

1. 00 - Foreword — 1:25
2. 01 - The Frog and the Puddle — 17:54
3. 02 - The Man Who Came Back — 26:08
4. 03 - What She Wore — 24:43
5. 04 - A Bush League Hero — 23:59
6. 05 - The Kitchen Side of the Door — 27:08
7. 06 - One of the Old Girls — 23:58
8. 07 - Maymeys from Cuba — 23:41
9. 08 - The Leading Lady — 18:55
10. 09 - That Home-Town Feeling — 23:38
11. 10 - The Homely Heroine — 20:15
12. 11 - Sun Dried — 18:49
13. 12 - Where the Car Turns at 18th — 25:17

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