Hide and Seek: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Hide and Seek, credited to Wilkie Collins, 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 Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins. Read in English by Anna Simon The artist Valentine Blyth has a very generous heart. He lovingly cares for his invalid wife, rescues a deaf orphan girl from maltreatment in a traveling circus and adopts her, and mentors a young man who gets in trouble with his tyrannical father. The girl, who received the nickname ‚Madonna’, falls in love with the young man, Zack. Because one of Valentine’s biggest fears is that Madonna’s blood relations will one day trace her and take her away from his home, he keeps the little that he knows of her origins a strict secret. One day, Zack befriends a mysterious stranger, who has just returned from years of rough life in the American wilderness. From that moment, the plot thickens, in mid-19th century dramatic style. This is Wilkie Collins’ third published novel (1854, read from the 1861 edition). Summary by Anna Simon.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Hide and Seek
• Author credits: Wilkie Collins
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 31
• Listed recording duration: 15:36:00

Opening tracks: first 24 of 31

1. 00 - Preface to the revised edition — 4:05
2. 01 - Opening Chapter. A child's sunday — 37:50
3. 02 - Book I - Chapter I. A new neighborhood, and a strange character — 34:10
4. 03 - Book I - Chapter II. Mr. Blyth in his studio — 26:34
5. 04 - Book I - Chapter III. Madonna's childhood — 40:06
6. 05 - Book I - Chapter IV. Madonna's mother — 40:19
7. 06 - Book I - Chapter V. Madonna's misfortune — 29:48
8. 07 - Book I - Chapter VI. Madonna goes to London — 32:12
9. 08 - Book I - Chapter VII. Madonna in her new home — 18:01
10. 09 - Book I - Chapter VIII. Mentor and Telemachus — 20:36
11. 10 - Book I - Chapter IX. The tribulations of Zack — 17:35
12. 11 - Book I - Chapter X. Mr Blyth's drawing academy — 38:26
13. 12 - Book I - Chapter XI. The brewing of the storm — 42:14
14. 13 - Book II - Chapter I. The man with the black skull-cap — 32:30
15. 14 - Book II - Chapter II. The prodigal's return — 20:05
16. 15 - Book II - Chapter III. The search begun — 33:45
17. 16 - Book II - Chapter IV. Fate works, with Zack for an instrument — 25:42
18. 17 - Book II - Chapter V. Fate works, with Mr. Blyth for an instrument — 49:23
19. 18 - Book II - Chapter VI. The finding of the clue — 15:41
20. 19 - Book II - Chapter VII. The box of letters — 19:56
21. 20 - Book II - Chapter VIII. Joanna Grice's narrative — 41:11
22. 21 - Book II - Chapter IX. More discoveries — 25:54
23. 22 - Book II - Chapter X. The squaw's mixture — 41:14
24. 23 - Book II - Chapter XI. The garden door — 41:34

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