Liliecrona's Home: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Liliecrona's Home, credited to Selma Lagerlöf, 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 Liliecrona's Home, by Selma Lagerlöf. Read by Lars Rolander. Liliecrona's Home was published in Sweden 1911 and translated into English by Anna Barwell and published in London 1913. The story is set in the same surroundings in the district of Värmland, which Lagerlöf knew so well, and used in many of her books. At the bottom of the dried out Svartsjö lake (Black Lake) there lies the Lövdala Parsonage with its stables and outhouses. There resides the goodhearted, widowed, Pastor Lyselius and his beautiful daughter. Here one day, arrives his new wife, who turns out to be a wicked stepmother. She tempts with her cooking and other allurements, but soon shows her real self. She torments her servants and especially the parson's daughter, mamsell Maia Lisa. We follow mamsell Maia Lisa through torments and sufferings where she gets ever new and harder burdens to carry on her weak shoulders. But by her side in all weathers stands the cleareyed Little Maid, never afraid to say what she thinks or to defend justice. It is hard times when the stepmother is allowed to rule at Lövdala. Even the Parson abandons his nice personality and becomes a marionette who turns against those who he most loves. But changes will come in the end. (Summary by Lars Rolander adapted from Wikipedia-Sweden)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Liliecrona's Home
• Author credits: Selma Lagerlöf
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 7:48:08

Catalogue topics

• audio book
• fiction
• Sweden

Track guide

1. 01 - The Storm-wind — 31:16
2. 02 - The Spinning-wheels — 15:57
3. 03 - The Black Lake — 15:19
4. 04 - Snow-white, part 1 — 35:25
5. 05 - Snow-white, part 2 — 38:34
6. 06 - The Pastor of Svartsjö -The Magic Pancake — 23:45
7. 07 - The Bride's Dance — 38:24
8. 08 - The Fox-pit — 15:15
9. 09 - The Silver Thaler — 28:53
10. 10 - The Pastor from Finland — 28:34
11. 11 - The Smith from Henriksberg — 23:52
12. 12 - Ensign Orneclou — 30:53
13. 13 - The Daily Round — 19:35
14. 14 - A Spring Evening — 29:30
15. 15 - The Accusation — 40:40
16. 16 - The Rest Stone - The Water Spirits in Lövdala — 25:07
17. 17 - The Home — 27:10

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