Castles in the Air: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Castles in the Air, credited to Baroness Emmuska Orczy, 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 Castles in the Air, by Baroness Emmuska Orczy. Read by Lars Rolander. Baroness Emma Orczy (full name: Emma ("Emmuska") Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orczi) (September 23, 1865 – November 12, 1947) was a British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian noble origin. She was most notable for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel. Castles in the Air, a short novel or perhaps more like a collection of short stories with memories of a French rogue in the early 19th century Paris, was published in 1921 and about it I quote from the foreword: In very truth my good friend Ratichon is an unblushing liar, thief, a forger--anything you will; his vanity is past belief, his scruples are non-existent. How he escaped a convict settlement it is difficult to imagine, and hard to realize that he died--presumably some years after the event recorded in the last chapter of his autobiography--a respected member of the community, honoured by that same society which should have raised a punitive hand against him. (Summary by Wikipedia, Lars Rolander and Emma Orczy)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Castles in the Air
• Author credits: Baroness Emmuska Orczy
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 7:44:23

Catalogue topics

• Ratichon
• Paris

Track guide

1. 00 - Foreword — 5:35
2. 01 - Chapter I - A Roland for his Oliver Pt 1 — 27:50
3. 02 - Chapter I - A Roland for his Oliver Pt 2 — 36:00
4. 03 - Chapter II - A Fool's Paradise Pt 1 — 26:23
5. 04 - Chapter II - A Fool's Paradise Pt 2 — 22:30
6. 05 - Chapter III - On the Brink Pt 1 — 32:45
7. 06 - Chapter III - On the Brink Pt 2 — 45:13
8. 07 - Chapter IV - Carissimo Pt 1 — 28:03
9. 08 - Chapter IV - Carissimo Pt 2 — 27:20
10. 09 - Chapter IV - Carissimo Pt 3 — 15:50
11. 10 - Chapter V - The Toys Pt 1 — 34:30
12. 11 - Chapter V - The Toys Pt 2 — 43:53
13. 12 - Chapter VI - Honour among ----- Pt 1 — 30:27
14. 13 - Chapter VI - Honour among ----- Pt 2 — 24:53
15. 14 - Chapter VII - An Over-sensitive Heart Pt 1 — 25:50
16. 15 - Chapter VII - An Over-sensitive Heart Pt 2 — 37:26

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