Hitty, Her First Hundred Years: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 17 original MP3 tracks, 6:15:32 running time and a link to listen.
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, credited to Rachel Field, 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 Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field. Read in English by MaryAnn. Mehitabel (Hitty) Preble was carved from a piece of mountain ash by a traveling peddler in Maine during the 1820s. Though she was only a small wooden doll, mountain ash is said to bring good fortune—and Hitty's long life was certainly filled with adventure. She began as the treasured possession of Phoebe Preble and her remarkable journey took her across the oceans and back to the US, from North to South, and through the homes of many owners. Some were kind and gentle, recognizing her quiet dignity, others were rough and thoughtless, seeing her as only an old, worn out doll. Along the way, she remained true to the values she learned in her first simple home in Maine, allowing her to look back on her long life with gratitude even as she looks forward to a future filled with even more adventures. Told as Hitty's own memoirs, this Newbery Medal–winning classic is a warm, charming, and thoughtful journey through more than a century of history, seen through the eyes of a small wooden doll. (Summary by MaryAnn)
Recording facts
- Recording title: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
- Author credits: Rachel Field
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 17
- Listed recording duration: 6:15:32
Catalogue topics
- Newbery Medal
- doll
- children's fiction
Track guide
- 01 - In Which I Begin My Memoirs — 24:01
- 02 - In Which I Go Up in the World and Am Glad to Come Down Again — 20:58
- 03 - In Which I Travel -- by Land and Sea — 13:39
- 04 - In Which We Go to Sea — 17:56
- 05 - In Which We Strike our First and Last Whale — 28:46
- 06 - In Which I Join the Fishes and Rejoin the Prebles — 19:49
- 07 - In Which I Learn the Ways of Gods, Natives, and Monkeys — 19:27
- 08 - In Which I Am Lost in India — 22:13
- 09 - In Which I Have Another Child to Play with Me — 21:09
- 10 - In Which I Am Rescued and Hear Adelina Patti — 30:02
- 11 - In Which I Sit for My Daguerreotype and Meet a Poet — 17:15
- 12 - In Which I Go Into Camphor, Reach New York, and Become a Doll of Fashion — 17:46
- 13 - In Which I Spend a Disastrous New Year's and Return to New England — 19:52
- 14 - In Which I End My Hay-Days and Begin a New Profession — 36:20
- 15 - In Which I Learn Much of Plantations, Post Offices, and Pin Cushions — 24:33
- 16 - In Which I Return to Familiar Scenes — 21:19
- 17 - In Which I am Sold at Auction — 20:27
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