Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories, credited to Maurice Baring, 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 Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches by Maurice Baring. Read in English by Kate Follis; acousticwave; Emma Charlotte; Ulrike Denis; VfkaBT; Nemo; sunshinealways; Allen Rubinstein; Eva Davis; Mike Pelton; jimsvox4 In this urbane collection of short stories by Maurice Baring, characters ranging from legendary figures to schoolboys find themselves in step or out of sorts, where they are meant to be or warned not to go, out of luck or, more often than not, in it. - Summary by A. Gramour

Recording facts

• Recording title: Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories
• Author credits: Maurice Baring
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 6:46:26

Catalogue topics

• Shakespeare
• china
• oxford
• cricket
• orpheus
• upper class
• private school

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 01 - ORPHEUS IN MAYFAIR — 20:49
2. 02 - THE CRICKET MATCH AN INCIDENT AT A PRIVATE SCHOOL — 15:03
3. 03 - THE SHADOW OF A MIDNIGHT- A GHOST STORY — 11:39
4. 04 - JEAN FRANCOIS — 12:38
5. 05 - THE FLUTE OF CHANG LIANG — 12:48
6. 06 - “WHAT IS TRUTH?” — 13:42
7. 07 - A LUNCHEON-PARTY — 42:54
8. 08 - FETE GALANTE — 10:13
9. 09 - THE GARLAND — 9:50
10. 10 - THE SPIDER’S WEB — 13:09
11. 11 - EDWARD II. AT BERKELEY CASTLE BY AN EYE-WITNESS — 9:12
12. 12 - THE ISLAND — 17:29
13. 13 - THE MAN WHO GAVE GOOD ADVICE — 14:22
14. 14 - RUSSALKA — 15:18
15. 15 - THE OLD WOMAN — 10:55
16. 16 - DR. FAUST’S LAST DAY — 15:44
17. 17 - THE FLUTE-PLAYER’S STORY — 43:06
18. 18 - A CHINAMAN ON OXFORD — 15:25
19. 19 - VENUS — 27:10
20. 20 - THE FIRE — 11:08
21. 21 - THE CONQUEROR — 12:38
22. 22 - THE IKON — 14:29
23. 23 - THE THIEF — 11:31
24. 24 - THE STAR — 11:25

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