Hieroglyphic Tales: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Hieroglyphic Tales, credited to Horace Walpole, 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 Hieroglyphic Tales by Horace Walpole. Read in English by Barbara Baker Surreal and satirical, these stories by the eighteenth century man of letters, Whig politician, art historian and antiquarian are '"...mere whimsical trifles, written chiefly for private entertainment, and for private amusement... an attempt to vary the stale and beaten class of stories and novels, which, though works of invention, are almost always devoid of imagination...." Horace Walpole - Summary by barbara2

Recording facts

• Recording title: Hieroglyphic Tales
• Author credits: Horace Walpole
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 8
• Listed recording duration: 1:21:07

Catalogue topics

• surrealism gothic literature-18thcentury

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 10:45
2. 01 - A new Arabian Night's Entertainment — 12:04
3. 02 - The King and his three Daughters — 10:47
4. 03 - The Dice-Box. A Fairy Tale — 9:56
5. 04 - The Peach in Brandy. A Milesian Tale — 9:22
6. 05 - Mi Li. A Chinese Fairy Tale — 18:22
7. 06 - A True Love Story — 8:26
8. 07 - Postscript — 1:25

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