Personal Collection of Short Tales compiled by Carmie: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Personal Collection of Short Tales compiled by Carmie, credited to Various, 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 four short tales compiled by Carmie. Read by Carmie. This is a selection of the fairy tales (in English) written by Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm and Wilhelm Karl Grimm in the early 19th Century. These stories are fantastical and although aimed squarely at the flexible mind of a child which can assimilate much stranger concepts than an adult they are quite dark and occasionally brutal. The stakes can be quite high as in Rumpelstiltskin where a terrible bargain is made without due regard to possible future consequences and Tom Thumb who seems forever about to be imprisoned or sliced in two. These are moral tales and this selection features some of the less 'grim' of those tales but they are still a 1000 times more exciting and vivid than many more modern fairy tales. The Gutenberg edition from which most of these stories were read contains some delightful pictures to accompany the stories. The pictures can be viewed here. The exception to this is the story, Puss in Boots which is from an Andrew Lang collection which can be found here. (summary by Jimmowatt)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Personal Collection of Short Tales compiled by Carmie
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 4
• Listed recording duration: 44:33

Catalogue topics

• fairy tale
• short tale
• tale
• grimm

Track guide

1. Frog Prince — 6:53
2. Puss In Boots — 10:36
3. Rumplestiltskin — 7:17
4. The Twelve Dancing Princesses — 9:13

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