Madame Butterfly: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Madame Butterfly, credited to John Luther Long, 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 Madame Butterfly, by John Luther Long. Read by Availle. Madame Butterfly is the story of the young Japanese girl Cho-Cho San, who marries a flighty American naval officer, and is thenceforth outcast from her relatives. Anxiously she awaits the return of her beloved husband, but when he finally anchors in the harbour, Cho-Cho San does not get the happy ending she was hoping for. This short story by John Luther Long has inspired Giacomo Puccini to write the opera of the same name. (Introduction by Availle)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Madame Butterfly
• Author credits: John Luther Long
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 5
• Listed recording duration: 1:55:36

Catalogue topics

• Asia
• Japan
• fiction
• romance

Track guide

1. 1 Chapters 1 - 3 — 13:49
2. 2 Chapters 4 - 6 — 25:11
3. 3 Chapters 7 - 8 — 20:51
4. 4 Chapters 9 - 11 — 30:21
5. 5 Chapters 12 - 15 — 25:26

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