Penelope's English Experiences: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Penelope's English Experiences, credited to Kate Douglas Wiggin, 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 Penelope's English Experiences, by Kate Douglas Wiggin. Read by Maria Therese. Penelope's English Experiences is a fictional travelogue, which documents the experiences of three American ladies on a visit to England. Included are scenes in London and the village of Belvern, containing fanciful sketches of a West-end ball, portraits of domestic originals, etc., characterized by humorous trifling and droll exaggeration of English traits. By the author Mother Carey's Chickens, A Cathedral Courtship, etc. (Summary adapted from an original review)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Penelope's English Experiences
• Author credits: Kate Douglas Wiggin
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 3:08:05

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• England
• travel
• romance

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 01 - The Weekly Bill — 10:22
2. 02 - The Powdered Footman Smiles — 6:49
3. 03 - Eggs a la coque — 6:15
4. 04 - The English Sense of Humour — 5:38
5. 05 - A Hyde Park Sunday — 5:28
6. 06 - The English Park Lover — 4:03
7. 07 - A Ducal Tea-Party — 7:46
8. 08 - Tuppeny Travels in London — 11:59
9. 09 - A Table of Kindred and Affinity — 7:02
10. 10 - Apropos of Advertisements — 8:59
11. 11 - The Ball on the Opposite Side — 17:10
12. 12 - Patricia Makes Her Debut — 12:00
13. 13 - A Penelope Secret — 7:39
14. 14 - Love and Lavender — 7:56
15. 15 - Penelope Dreams — 10:56
16. 16 - The Decay of Romance — 3:49
17. 17 - Short Stops and Long Bills — 4:33
18. 18 - I Meet Mrs. Bobby — 5:23
19. 19 - The Heart of the Artist — 4:21
20. 20 - A Canticle to Jane — 4:11
21. 21 - I Remember, I Remember — 6:23
22. 22 - Comfort Cottage — 7:13
23. 23 - Tea Served Here — 7:00
24. 24 - An Unliscened Victualler — 7:13

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