Old Friends, Essays in Epistolary Parody: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Old Friends, Essays in Epistolary Parody, credited to Andrew Lang, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Old Friends, Essays in Epistolary Parody by Andrew Lang. Read in English by BettyB; Kristin Gjerløw; Julia Niedermaier; Diella Noffke; Anna Simon; Kalynda; TriciaG; Crln Yldz Ksr; Larry Wilson; chocmuse; Peter John Keeble; Lynne Thompson; Karishma; Amelia Chesley; Karen Savage; Mike Harris "Every fancy which dwells much with the unborn and immortal characters of Fiction must ask itself, Did the persons in contemporary novels never meet? In so little a world their paths must often have crossed, their orbits must have intersected, though we hear nothing about the adventure from the accredited narrators. In historical fiction authors make their people meet real men and women of history—Louis XI., Lazarus, Mary Queen of Scots, General Webbe, Moses, the Man in the Iron Mask, Marie Antoinette; the list is endless. But novelists, in spite of Mr. Thackeray’s advice to Alexandre Dumas, and of his own example in “Rebecca and Rowena,” have not introduced each other’s characters" (from the Introduction). In this volume, Andrew Lang shows, what a letter from one fictional character to another might look like.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Old Friends, Essays in Epistolary Parody
• Author credits: Andrew Lang
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 24
• Listed recording duration: 3:36:23

Catalogue topics

• Quatermain
• maupassant
• guinevere
• Lecoq
• pickwick
• proudie
• oldbuck
• morland

Track guide

1. 01 - Friends in Fiction — 27:16
2. 02 - Chapter I — 4:21
3. 03 - Chapter II — 6:03
4. 04 - Chapter III — 6:02
5. 05 - Chapter IV — 7:11
6. 06 - Chapter V — 6:36
7. 07 - Chapter VI — 9:38
8. 08 - Chapter VII — 19:59
9. 09 - Chapter VIII — 6:32
10. 10 - Chapter IX — 8:55
11. 11 - Chapter X — 7:56
12. 12 - Chapter XI — 5:49
13. 13 - Chapter XII — 11:02
14. 14 - Chapter XIII — 7:48
15. 15 - Chapter XIV — 2:37
16. 16 - Chapter XV — 12:19
17. 17 - Chapter XVI — 4:27
18. 18 - Chapter XVII — 5:42
19. 19 - Chapter XVIII — 9:51
20. 20 - Chapter XIX — 3:59
21. 21 - Chapter XX — 11:11
22. 22 - Chapter XXI — 11:53
23. 23 - Chapter XXII — 14:02
24. 24 - Chapter XXIII — 5:14

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