Four and Twenty Fairy Tales: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Four and Twenty Fairy Tales, credited to Various, 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 Four and Twenty Fairy Tales by Various. (Translated by James Planché.) Read in English by Jason in Panama; Ezwa; Patrick Saville; BettyB; Gillian Hendrie; TheLiteratePenguin; Pete Darby; Robert Robinson; Carmelea; Paul Ford; Kathleen Moore; SaraHale; Janette Edwards; Jennifer Wysk; Lynda Marie Neilson; John N. Daily; Kathleen Mariner This is a collection of French fairy tales by different famous authors. Included in this collection are such famous tales as Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella, but also tales which are now not as well-known but closely connected and certainly of interest to anyone enjoying fairy tales of that description. The translation is well made by James Planché (1858), a connoisseur of historical costume, which to this day plays a big role in fairy tales. - Summary by Carolin

Recording facts

• Recording title: Four and Twenty Fairy Tales
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 48
• Listed recording duration: 23:28:16

Catalogue topics

• children
• story
• short stories
• fairy tales
• princess
• tales
• prince
• 1858

Opening tracks: first 24 of 48

1. 00 - Preface — 4:45
2. 01 - Blue Beard — 14:44
3. 02 - The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood — 25:07
4. 03 - Master Cat, or, Puss in Boots — 10:33
5. 04 - Cinderella, or, the Little Glass Slipper — 16:49
6. 05 - Riquet with the Tuft — 15:01
7. 06 - Little Thumbling — 20:11
8. 07 - Perfect Love, part 1 — 37:19
9. 08 - Perfect Love, part 2 — 32:25
10. 09 - Anguillette, part 1 — 37:59
11. 10 - Anguillette, part 2 — 40:13
12. 11 - Young and Handsome, part 1 — 23:52
13. 12 - Young and Handsome, part 2 — 26:33
14. 13 - The Palace of Revenge — 33:05
15. 14 - The Prince of Leaves — 51:10
16. 15 - The Fortunate Punishment — 41:29
17. 16 - Fairer than a Fairy, part 1 — 22:13
18. 17 - Fairer than a Fairy, part 2 — 25:50
19. 18 - The Good Woman — 44:13
20. 19 - The Story of the Beauty and the Beast, part 1 — 47:41
21. 20 - The Story of the Beauty and the Beast, part 2 — 49:28
22. 21 - The Story of the Beauty and the Beast, part 3 — 36:13
23. 22 - The Story of the Beauty and the Beast, part 4 — 36:50
24. 23 - The Story of the Beauty and the Beast, part 5 — 53:21

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