My Friend Annabel Lee: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

My Friend Annabel Lee, credited to Mary MacLane, 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 My Friend Annabel Lee by Mary MacLane. Read in English by Daryl Wor Published in 1903, this selection of dialogues by Mary MacLane entails a mystery of wondering who she is speaking with. Is it the statue she describes at first? Is it an imaginary friend? Is it the author’s alter-ego? Or perhaps, is it a friend she knows in-the-flesh whom the author wished no one to recognize the identity of? These questions are never truly answered for how could a statue send word by postal mail or know some of the deeper vulnerabilities of the author without her knowing them herself? In these talks between herself and Annabel Lee come glimmerings of another time, discussions in the whimsy of personal stories, happenings in the neighbourhood, and the reflections in the deeper meaning of life as well as the bonds of friendship. - Summary by Daryl Wor

Recording facts

• Recording title: My Friend Annabel Lee
• Author credits: Mary MacLane
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 3:49:30

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• novel
• friend
• 1903

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 01 - The Coming of Annabel Lee — 6:46
2. 02 - The Flat Surfaces of Things — 5:10
3. 03 - My Friend Annabel Lee — 0:54
4. 04 - Boston — 14:37
5. 05 - A Small House in the Country — 6:01
6. 06 - The Half-Conscious Soul — 9:30
7. 07 - The Young-Books of Trowbridge — 12:33
8. 08 - “Give Me Three Grains of Corn, Mother” — 5:32
9. 09 - Relative — 8:27
10. 10 - Minnie Maddern Fiske — 11:03
11. 11 - Like a Stone Wall — 8:06
12. 12 - To Fall in Love — 6:20
13. 13 - When I Went to the Butte High School — 14:50
14. 14 - “And Mary MacLane and Me” — 14:37
15. 15 - A Story of Spoon-Bills — 17:22
16. 16 - A Measure of Sorrow — 7:39
17. 17 - A Lute with no Strings — 9:04
18. 18 - Another Vision of my Friend Annabel Lee — 9:07
19. 19 - The Art of Contemplation — 7:21
20. 20 - Concerning Little Willy Kaatenstein — 25:25
21. 21 - A Bond of Sympathy — 6:26
22. 22 - The Message of a Tender Soul — 5:43
23. 23 - Me to My Friend Annabel Lee — 11:04
24. 24 - My Friend Annabel Lee to Me — 1:21

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