Dickey Downy: The Autobiography of a Bird: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Dickey Downy: The Autobiography of a Bird, credited to Virginia Sharpe Patterson, 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 Dickey Downy: The Autobiography of a Bird by Virginia Sharpe Patterson. Read in English by Louise Jaeschke. Every one will see at once that we have here a new member of the family of Black Beauty and Beautiful Joe, only this time it is a bird that is the hero and the object is reform through early impressions of one of woman’s greatest weaknesses—millinery. It is one of the best stories of its class we have met with. - Summary by B.B. Warfield

Recording facts

• Recording title: Dickey Downy: The Autobiography of a Bird
• Author credits: Virginia Sharpe Patterson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 15
• Listed recording duration: 3:49:25

Catalogue topics

• birds
• birds -- juvenile literature

Track guide

1. 01 - The Orchard — 12:47
2. 02 - Dickey Downy's Meditations — 7:20
3. 03 - The Ruler with the Iron Hand — 19:32
4. 04 - Dickey's Cousins — 6:35
5. 05 - "Don't, Johnny" — 17:55
6. 06 - The Parrot at a Party — 22:58
7. 07 - A Winter in the South — 26:37
8. 08 - The Prison — 19:02
9. 09 - The Hunters — 10:15
10. 10 - A New Home — 19:30
11. 11 - The Ill-Mannered Child — 13:19
12. 12 - Two Slaves of Fashion — 7:12
13. 13 - Dickey's Visit — 16:58
14. 14 - The Country School — 23:45
15. 15 - Polly's Farewell — 5:40

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