Famous Stories Every Child Should Know: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Famous Stories Every Child Should Know, credited to Hamilton Wright Mabie, 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 Famous Stories Every Child Should Know, by Hamilton Wright Mabie. The group of stories brought together in this volume differ from legends because they have, with one exception,no core fact at the centre, from myths because they make no attempt to personify or explain the forces or processes of nature, from fairy stories because they do not often bring to the stage actors from a different nature from ours.... The stories which make up this volume are closer to experience and come, from the most part, nearer to the every-day happenings of life. (Summary by Hamilton Wright Mabie, from the Introduction)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Famous Stories Every Child Should Know
• Author credits: Hamilton Wright Mabie
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 41
• Combined MP3 track duration: 10:24:34

Catalogue topics

• children
• traditional

Opening tracks: first 24 of 41

1. 00 - Introduction — 11:29
2. 01 - A Child's Dream Of A Star by Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) — 9:41
3. 02 - The King Of The Golden River Or The Black Brothers by John Ruskin (1819 -1900), Part 1 — 19:16
4. 03 - The King Of The Golden River Or The Black Brothers by John Ruskin (1819 -1900), Part 2 — 12:39
5. 04 - The King Of The Golden River Or The Black Brothers by John Ruskin (1819 -1900), Part 3 — 11:28
6. 05 - The King Of The Golden River Or The Black Brothers by John Ruskin (1819 -1900), Part 4 — 5:44
7. 06 - The King Of The Golden River Or The Black Brothers by John Ruskin (1819 -1900), Part 5 — 9:22
8. 07 - The Snow Image: A Childish Miracle by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864) — 46:23
9. 08 - Undine by Friedrich, Baron De La Motte Fouque (1777 - 1843) Part 1 — 11:44
10. 09 -Undine by Friedrich, Baron De La Motte Fouque (1777 - 1843) Part 2 — 10:49
11. 10 - Undine by Friedrich, Baron De La Motte Fouque (1777 - 1843) Part 3 — 8:46
12. 11 - Undine by Friedrich, Baron De La Motte Fouque (1777 - 1843) Part 4 — 13:21
13. 12 - Undine by Friedrich, Baron De La Motte Fouque (1777 - 1843) Part 5 — 10:09
14. 13 - Undine by Friedrich, Baron De La Motte Fouque (1777 - 1843) Part 6 — 11:51
15. 14 - Undine by Friedrich, Baron De La Motte Fouque (1777 - 1843) Part 7 — 6:13
16. 15 - Undine by Friedrich, Baron De La Motte Fouque (1777 - 1843) Part 8 — 10:43
17. 16 - Undine by Friedrich, Baron De La Motte Fouque (1777 - 1843) Part 9 — 8:35
18. 17 - Undine by Friedrich, Baron De La Motte Fouque (1777 - 1843) Part 10 — 7:37
19. 18 - Undine by Friedrich, Baron De La Motte Fouque (1777 - 1843) Part 11 — 10:11
20. 19 - Undine by Friedrich, Baron De La Motte Fouque (1777 - 1843) Part 12 — 7:42
21. 20 - Undine by Friedrich, Baron De La Motte Fouque (1777 - 1843) Part 13 — 13:28
22. 21 - Undine by Friedrich, Baron De La Motte Fouque (1777 - 1843) Part 14 — 12:34
23. 22 - Undine by Friedrich, Baron De La Motte Fouque (1777 - 1843) Part 15 — 11:02
24. 23 - Undine by Friedrich, Baron De La Motte Fouque (1777 - 1843) Part 16 — 8:01

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