Opals: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Opals, credited to Olive Custance, 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 Opals by Olive Custance. Read in English by Nemo At age 16, London blueblood Olive Custance already figured in literary circles shared by Oscar Wilde and John Gray. She later wrote for the "Yellow Book", a notorious British quarterly of the late 1890's, featuring poems, essays, short stories and artwork by many well-known writers and artists of the age. In 1902 she married Lord Alfred ‘Bosie’ Douglas, famed for his relationship with Oscar Wilde. Opals, her first published poetry collection, appeared in 1897 when she was just 23, to be followed by Rainbows (1902), The Blue Bird (1905) and The Inn of Dreams (1911). - Summary by Nemo

Recording facts

• Recording title: Opals
• Author credits: Olive Custance
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 39
• Listed recording duration: 58:55

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• love poems
• english poets

Opening tracks: first 24 of 39

1. 01 - Love's Firstfruits — 2:06
2. 02 - The Song Spinner — 1:51
3. 03 - Twilight — 1:35
4. 04 - Ideal — 1:04
5. 05 - The Blue Mist — 1:13
6. 06 - With a Book of Fairy Tales — 1:12
7. 07 - Delight — 1:22
8. 08 - Glamour of Gold — 1:43
9. 09 - Villanelle — 0:54
10. 10 - Sunshine — 1:59
11. 11 - Virelay: Regret — 1:16
12. 12 - A Lament for the Leaves — 1:28
13. 13 - Autumn Night — 1:43
14. 14 - Spirit Speech — 1:27
15. 15 - June — 1:47
16. 16 - Harvest Noon — 1:10
17. 17 - A Sleep Song — 1:37
18. 18 - Fantasy — 1:16
19. 19 - In a Boat — 1:37
20. 20 - Comforted — 1:15
21. 21 - Dreamed Tryst — 1:18
22. 22 - The Poet's Picture — 2:17
23. 23 - An Impression — 0:55
24. 24 - A Dream — 1:19

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