Mr Munchausen: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Mr Munchausen, credited to John Kendrick Bangs, 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 Mr Munchausen by John Kendrick Bangs. Read in English by Kevin Green The author has discovered for us in this volume the present stopping place of that famous raconteur of dear comic memory, the late Hieronymous Carl Friederich, sometime Baron Munchausen, and he transmits to us some further adventures of this traveler and veracious relator of merry tales. There are about a dozen of these tales, and, judging by Mr. Bangs' recital of them, the Baron's adventures on this mundane sphere were no more exciting than those he has encountered since taking the ferry across the Styx. Mr. Bangs proves himself well worthy of the task of reintroducing this merry old wag to modern fun-lovers, and in selecting from the tales the Baron has related to him he has chosen with an eye to the humorous which is unfailing in its clearness and keenness of perception. (Review from Book News, V. 20, 1902)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Mr Munchausen
• Author credits: John Kendrick Bangs
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 3:04:07

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• fantasy
• munchausen
• absurd

Track guide

1. 00 - Editor's Apology and Dedication — 5:07
2. 01 - I Encounter the Old Gentleman — 10:39
3. 02 - The Sporting Tour of Mr Munchausen — 13:53
4. 03 - Three Months in a Balloon — 11:19
5. 04 - Some Hunting Stories for Children — 12:00
6. 05 - The Story of Jang — 12:15
7. 06 - He Tells the Twins of Fire-Works — 11:11
8. 07 - Saved by a Magic Lantern — 12:32
9. 08 - An Adventure in the Desert — 10:51
10. 09 - Decoration Day in the Cannibal Islands — 9:43
11. 10 - Mr. Munchausen's Adventure with a Shark — 10:39
12. 11 - The Baron as a Runner — 12:44
13. 12 - Mr Munchausen Meets his Match — 13:19
14. 13 - Wriggletto — 11:43
15. 14 - The Poetic June-Bug, Together with Some Remarks on the Gillyhooly Bird — 13:13
16. 15 - A Lucky Stroke — 12:59

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