Heroes Every Child Should Know: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Heroes 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.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Heroes Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie. Read in English by Claudia Salto; Ramon Escamilla; Daniel J. Johnson; Greg Giordano; TimoleonWash; deongines; Lisa Reichert; Melanie Smith; Steve C; Jack Danya Kemplin; Garth Burton; Sandra; Teresa Bauman; Lynne Thompson; jpmc; Jill Engle The endeavour has been made in this volume to bring together the heroic men of different races, periods and types; and in the selection of material the most attractive, intelligent and authoritative literature has been drawn upon. In cases in which the material selected belongs distinctively to the best literature, no changes have been made, although narratives have been abbreviated; in cases in which the material has a historical rather than a distinctively literary quality, the text has been treated for "substance of doctrine," and omissions have been freely made, and connecting words, phrases and even sentences have been introduced to give the narrative clear connection and completeness. In the preparation of the material for the volume the intelligence and skill of Miss Kate Stephens have been so freely used that she is entitled to the fullest recognition as associate editor. - Summary by Hamilton Wright Mabie

Recording facts

• Recording title: Heroes Every Child Should Know
• Author credits: Hamilton Wright Mabie
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 11:01:34

Catalogue topics

• children
• heroes
• biographies

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 00 - Introduction — 16:33
2. 01 - Perseus part 1 by Charles Kingsley — 23:32
3. 02 - Perseus part 2 by Charles Kingsley — 19:48
4. 03 - Hercules by Kate Stephens — 30:16
5. 04 - Daniel from The Book of Daniel — 5:56
6. 05 - David from 1 Samuel — 11:41
7. 06 - St. George by Mrs. E. Rundle Charles — 11:34
8. 07 - King Arthur by Beatrice Clay — 34:19
9. 08 - Sir Galahad by Beatrice Clay — 17:46
10. 09 - Sir Galahad by Alfred Lord Tennyson (verse) — 4:57
11. 10 - Siegfried by A.J. Church — 40:37
12. 11 - Roland by A.J. Church — 36:00
13. 12 - King Alfred by E.A. Freeman — 41:22
14. 13 - The Cid part 1 by Robert Southey — 28:31
15. 14 - The Cid part 2 by Robert Southey — 29:29
16. 15 - Robin Hood by Andrew Lang — 37:17
17. 16 - Richard the Lion-Hearted by A.J. Church — 42:34
18. 17 - Saint Louis by A.J. Church — 37:26
19. 18 - William Tell by Agnes Strickland — 30:56
20. 19 - Robert Bruce part 1 by Sir Walter Scott — 22:47
21. 20 - Robert Bruce part 2 by Sir Walter Scott — 26:19
22. 21 - George Washington by C.W. Parke Custis — 29:07
23. 22 - Robert E. Lee by himself — 38:18
24. 23 - The Youth Of Lincoln by Elbridge S. Brooks — 19:10

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