From a Swedish Homestead: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

From a Swedish Homestead, credited to Selma Lagerlöf, 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 From a Swedish Homestead by Selma Lagerlöf. Read in English by Lars Rolander ”From a Swedish Homestead” by the Swedish author Selma Lagerloef (translated by Jessie Brochner) is a varied collection of stories, mostly set in Dalarne or Vaermland in Sweden, but also some stories or legends from Kungahalla on the west-coast at the time between Heathendom and early Christianity plus some Legends from Italy and Belgium. The first nine sections, “The Story of a Country House”, is a short Novel, originally published on its own, but here part of the collection. It is the story of how a young orphan girl, Ingrid, is the instrument of saving the student Gunnar Hede, who has lost his wits and memory by a terrible experience, trying to save his home, his Couyntry House, and who wanders the roads as a Pedlar, but at the same time afraid of most everything, especially animals. As told by Lagerloef it is a both fascinating and sweet story, as are all the others. (Summary by Lars Rolander)

Recording facts

• Recording title: From a Swedish Homestead
• Author credits: Selma Lagerlöf
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 23
• Listed recording duration: 10:05:08

Catalogue topics

• lagerloef
• from a swedish homestead
• short stories

Track guide

1. 01 - The Story of a Country House - Part 1 — 28:40
2. 02 - The Story of a Country House - Part 2 — 21:59
3. 03 - The Story of a Country House - Part 3 — 43:42
4. 04 - The Story of a Country House - Part 4 — 28:09
5. 05 - The Story of a Country House - Part 5 — 17:58
6. 06 - The Story of a Country House - Part 6 — 17:04
7. 07 - The Story of a Country House - Part 7 — 20:10
8. 08 - The Story of a Country House - Part 8 — 33:43
9. 09 - The Story of a Country House - Part 9 — 32:07
10. 10 - Queens at Kungahalla - On the Site of the Great Kungahalla - The Forest Queen — 38:43
11. 11 - Queens at Kungahalla - Sigrid Storrade — 24:14
12. 12 - Queens at Kungahalla - Astrid - Part 1 — 19:44
13. 13 - Queens at Kungahalla - Astrid - Part 2 — 29:32
14. 14 - Queens at Kungahalla - Astrid - Part 3 — 37:12
15. 15 - Old Agnete — 17:48
16. 16 - The Fisherman's Ring - Part 1 — 25:32
17. 17 - The Fisherman's Ring - Part 2 — 22:12
18. 18 - Santa Caterina of Siena — 33:21
19. 19 - The Empress's Money-Chest — 19:44
20. 20 - The Peace of God — 28:38
21. 21 - A Story from Halstanäs — 22:33
22. 22 - The Inscription on the Grave — 26:46
23. 23 - The Brothers — 15:37

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