International Short Stories Vol 2: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

International Short Stories Vol 2, credited to William Patten, 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 International Short Stories Vol 2 by William Patten. Read by LibirVox Volunteers The second volume of a 3 volume anthology, this work focuses on 'English' short stories, although it includes writers from other parts of the British isles. It features pieces by William Thackeray, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, J.M. Barrie and many other favorites. Topics range from historical to science fiction, melodramatic to philosophic. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

Recording facts

• Recording title: International Short Stories Vol 2
• Author credits: William Patten
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 32
• Listed recording duration: 13:21:16

Catalogue topics

• science fiction
• melodrama

Opening tracks: first 24 of 32

1. 01 - The Two Drovers by Sir Walter Scott Part 1 — 17:43
2. 02 - The Two Drovers by Sir Walter Scott Part 2 — 21:52
3. 03 - The Two Drovers by Sir Walter Scott Part 3 — 23:18
4. 04 - Mr. Deuceace: Dimond Cut Dimond by William Thackeray — 38:45
5. 05 - The Brothers: A Tale by Edward Bulwer Lytton Part 1 — 25:32
6. 06 - The Brothers: A Tale by Edward Bulwer Lytton Part 2 — 32:15
7. 07 - Dr. Manette's Manuscript by Charles Dickens — 33:54
8. 08 - The Caldron Of Oil by Wilkie Collins — 40:12
9. 09 - The Burial Of The Tithe by Samuel Lover Part 1 — 39:10
10. 10 - The Burial Of The Tithe by Samuel Lover Part 2 — 27:37
11. 11 - The Knightbridge Mystery by Charles Reade Part 1 — 28:41
12. 12 - The Knightbridge Mystery by Charles Reade Part 2 — 18:59
13. 13 - The Knightbridge Mystery by Charles Reade Part 3 — 26:30
14. 14 - The Knightbridge Mystery by Charles Reade Part 4 — 15:22
15. 15 - The Courting Of Dinah Shadd by Rudyard Kipling Part 1 — 18:25
16. 16 - The Courting Of Dinah Shadd by Rudyard Kipling Part 2 — 35:47
17. 17 - The Sire De Maletroit's Door by Robert Louis Stevenson Part 1 — 30:51
18. 18 - The Sire De Maletroit's Door by Robert Louis Stevenson Part 2 — 19:48
19. 19 - The Secret Of Goresthorpe Grange by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle — 44:01
20. 20 - A Change Of Treatment by W.W. Jacobs — 15:04
21. 21 - The Stickit Minister by S.R. Crockett — 10:44
22. 22 - The Lammas Preaching by S.R. Crockett — 16:55
23. 23 - An Undergraduate's Aunt by F. Anstey — 21:43
24. 24 - The Silhouettes by A.T. Quiller-Couch — 11:28

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