Princess Mary's Gift Book: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Princess Mary's Gift Book by Various: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 20 original MP3 tracks, 5:21:55 running time and a link to listen.
Princess Mary's Gift Book, 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 Princess Mary's Gift Book by Various. Read in English by Greg Giordano; Gabriel Glenn; Pam Castille; Lynne Thompson; Steve C; Linda Jenner; Kara Shallenberg; ToddHW In 1914, Princess Mary, then 17 years of age, gave her name to this collection of short stories and essays from the most prominent authors of the time for the purpose of raising funds for the "Work For Women Fund". A few of the outstanding authors represented in this sparkling collection are J.M. Barrie with is essay on A Holiday in Bed; A. Conan Doyle; J.H. Fabre the naturalist with his well know description of The Ant-Lion; H. Ryder Haggard; Rudyard Kipling; Alfred Noyes ("A Spell for a Fairy"); Baroness Orczy (yes, that one); and Kate Douglas Wiggin . - Summary by Phil Chenevert
Recording facts
- Recording title: Princess Mary's Gift Book
- Author credits: Various
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 20
- Listed recording duration: 5:21:55
Track guide
- 01 - A Holiday in Bed — 14:14
- 02 - The Spy — 17:36
- 03 - Charlie the Cox — 11:41
- 04 - Canada's Word — 2:10
- 05 - Bimbashi Joyce — 21:03
- 06 - The Ant-Lion — 14:38
- 07 - An Angel of God — 18:46
- 08 - A Model Soldier — 34:25
- 09 - The Land of Let's Pretend — 7:09
- 10 - Magepa the Buck — 33:27
- 11 - True Spartan Hearts — 9:35
- 12 - Big Steamers — 2:14
- 13 - A True Story From Camp — 4:14
- 14 - The Ebony Box — 44:20
- 15 - A Spell for a Fairy — 5:27
- 16 - Out of the Jaws of Death: A Scarlet Pimpernel Story — 13:54
- 17 - What Can A Little Chap Do? — 2:27
- 18 - Altogether Different — 14:44
- 19 - The Escape — 18:25
- 20 - Fleur-de-Lis — 31:25
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