Mary Louise in the Country: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Mary Louise in the Country by L. Frank Baum: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 28 original MP3 tracks, 4:33:42 running time and a link to listen.
Mary Louise in the Country, credited to L. Frank Baum, 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 Mary Louise in the Country, by L. Frank Baum. Read by Sibella Denton. The Bluebird Books is a series of novels popular with teenage girls in the 1910s and 1920s. The series was begun by L. Frank Baum using his Edith Van Dyne pseudonym, then continued by at least three others, all using the same pseudonym. Baum wrote the first four books in the series, possibly with help from his son, Harry Neal Baum, on the third. The books are concerned with adolescent girl detectives— a concept Baum had experimented with earlier, in The Daring Twins (1911) and Phoebe Daring (1912). The Bluebird series began with Mary Louise, originally written as a tribute to Baum's favorite sister, Mary Louise Baum Brewster. Baum's publisher, Reilly & Britton, rejected that manuscript, apparently judging the heroine too independent. Baum wrote a new version of the book; the original manuscript is lost. The title character is Mary Louise Burrows. In this volume, Mary Louise and Gran'pa Jim take a house for the summer in a quiet place called Cragg's Crossing. There, they meet with any number of peculiar people - and one very peculiar mystery!! (Summary from Wikipedia and Sibella Denton)
Recording facts
- Recording title: Mary Louise in the Country
- Author credits: L. Frank Baum
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 28
- Listed recording duration: 4:33:42
Catalogue topics
- teen/young adult
- mystery
- girl detectives
- bluebird series
- edith van dyne
- baum
Opening tracks: first 24 of 28
- 01 - The Arrival — 12:02
- 02 - The Kenton Place — 8:23
- 03 - The Folks Across the River — 12:20
- 04 - Getting Acquainted — 11:09
- 05 - Mary Louise becomes a Peacemaker — 5:41
- 06 - The Afternoon Tea — 14:51
- 07 - Mary Louise Calls for Help — 12:10
- 08 - The Red-Headed Girl — 14:41
- 09 - Josie Investigates — 9:27
- 10 - Ingua is Confidential — 10:25
- 11 - The Fate of Ned Joselyn — 7:27
- 12 - Theories are Dangerous — 9:11
- 13 - Bluff and Rebuff — 9:00
- 14 - Midnight Vigils — 11:26
- 15 - 'Old Swallowtail' — 8:13
- 16 - Ingua's New Dress — 5:59
- 17 - A Clew at Last — 12:48
- 18 - Doubts and Suspicions — 11:07
- 19 - Good Money for Bad — 10:02
- 20 - An Unexpected Appearance — 12:42
- 21 - A Case of Nerves — 7:48
- 22 - Ingua's Mother — 9:49
- 23 - Peculiar People — 13:21
- 24 - Facing Danger — 7:33
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