Downright Dencey (Dramatic Reading): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Downright Dencey (Dramatic Reading), credited to Caroline Dale Snedeker, 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 Downright Dencey by Caroline Dale Snedeker. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Dencey Coffyn grows up as a Quaker during Nantucket’s whaling days in the early 1800s. Full of heart, with an adventurous spirit that can find trouble easily, she works hard to make amends for the stones she cast at Sammie Jetsam. Dencey has a deep respect for her strict mother and a heart-filling love for her often absent ship’s-captain father. Dencey’s and Sam’s various adventures introduce us to other Quaker personalities, the Nantucket Quaker culture, and fun community events that were a mainstay at that time. Downright Dencey is a 1928 Newbery Honor book. - Summary by Lynette Caulkins

Recording facts

• Recording title: Downright Dencey (Dramatic Reading)
• Author credits: Caroline Dale Snedeker
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 49
• Listed recording duration: 7:46:33

Catalogue topics

• adventure
• children's literature
• nantucket
• quakers
• newbery
• newberry
• whaling days
• dencey

Opening tracks: first 24 of 49

1. 01 - Preface and BOOK ONE: Chapter 1 - Dionis Throws the Stone — 14:41
2. 02 - Chapter 2 - The Consequence Begins — 6:59
3. 03 - Chapter 3 - The Upper Room — 12:39
4. 04 - Chapter 4 - Forgiveness for the Stone — 9:00
5. 05 - Chapter 5 - Out on the Commons — 15:48
6. 06 - Chapter 6 - The Price of Forgiveness — 9:59
7. 07 - BOOK TWO: Chapter 7 - The Former Time — 14:47
8. 08 - Chapter 8 - "I Cannot Marry Out of Meeting" — 9:10
9. 09 - Chapter 9 - The Perpetual Frontier — 13:21
10. 10 - Chapter 10 - The Family on Fair Street — 17:52
11. 11 - Chapter 11 - A Wonderful Night — 7:56
12. 12 - Chapter 12 - Out of the Orient — 5:52
13. 13 - Chapter 13 - Father and Dencey — 4:18
14. 14 - BOOK THREE: Chapter 14 - Meeting Jetsam — 11:05
15. 15 - Chapter 15 - Brown's Barn — 8:12
16. 16 - Chapter 16 - The Beloved Aunt Lovesta — 5:06
17. 17 - Chapter 17 - The Adventure of the Coat — 6:12
18. 18 - Chapter 18 - More Adventure of the Coat — 7:35
19. 19 - Chapter 19 - The Adventure of the Book — 10:04
20. 20 - Chapter 20 - Injun Jill Knows — 4:38
21. 21 - Chapter 21 - The Adventure of Dencey — 6:50
22. 22 - Chapter 22 - Injun Jill Pursues — 9:59
23. 23 - Chapter 23 - The Promise — 13:23
24. 24 - Chapter 24 - The Unspeakable Jetsam — 6:09

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