Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed, credited to Edna Ferber, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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Librivox recording of Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed by Edna Ferber. Read by Lee Ann Howlett. Dawn O’Hara, the Girl Who Laughed was Edna Ferber’s first novel. Dawn, a newspaperwoman working in New York, finds herself back home in Michigan on doctor’s orders. Years of living in boarding-houses and working to pay for the care of her brilliant but mentally ill husband, Peter Orme, have taken their toll. At twenty-eight, Dawn feels like an old woman with no future. But, the loving care of her sister Norah and her family along with the attentions of the handsome German doctor, Ernst Von Gerhard, slowly bring Dawn back to life. With Dr. Von Gerhard’s help, she obtains a newspaper job in Milwaukee and begins a year of new adventures among new people. However, the specter of her husband living in a mental hospital is always present and Dawn fears she may never be free to love again. (Summary by Lee Ann Howlett) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed
• Author credits: Edna Ferber
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 21
• Listed recording duration: 5:45:26

Catalogue topics

• fiction

Track guide

1. 01 - The Smash-Up — 14:35
2. 02 - Mostly Eggs — 16:24
3. 03 - Good As New — 15:15
4. 04 - Dawn Develops A Heimweh — 18:29
5. 05 - The Absurd Becomes Serious — 20:01
6. 06 - Steeped In German — 16:08
7. 07 - Blackie's Philosophy — 19:23
8. 08 - Kaffee And Kaffeekuchen — 23:57
9. 09 - The Lady From Vienna — 14:54
10. 10 - A Tragedy Of Gowns — 16:43
11. 11 - Von Gerhard Speaks — 13:25
12. 12 - Bennie The Consoler — 20:33
13. 13 - The Test — 17:10
14. 14 - Bennie And The Charming Old Maid — 19:36
15. 15 - Farewell To Knapfs' — 19:12
16. 16 - June Moonlight, And A New Boarding House — 16:01
17. 17 - The Shadow Of Terror — 18:55
18. 18 - Peter Orme — 16:44
19. 19 - A Turn Of The Wheel — 10:53
20. 20 - Blackie's Vacation Comes — 9:04
21. 21 - Happiness — 8:14

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