Queechy: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Queechy, credited to Susan Warner, 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 Queechy, by Susan Warner. Read by Abigail Rasmussen and Arlene Joyce Fleda Ringan is an 11 year old orphan who lives with her grandfather in Queechy, Vermont. After a tragic incident, Fleda has to live with her aunt in Paris, Mrs. Rossiter. She travels to Paris under the care of young Mr. Carleton and his mother, a rich Englishwomen. Every young man who meets Fleda loves her, but she adores only Mr. Carleton. Once Fleda's aunt Mrs. Rossiter loses all her money, they return to America where Fleda learns to farm and cook to support her family. Mr. Carleton is always around to help out but never utters a word about love to Fleda. (Summary by Abigail Rasmussen)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Queechy
• Author credits: Susan Warner
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 54
• Listed recording duration: 27:47:43

Catalogue topics

• girls
• queechy
• susan
• warner
• fiction
• women

Opening tracks: first 24 of 54

1. 01 - Curtain Rises at Queechy — 30:00
2. 02 - Things Loom Out Dimly Through the Smoke — 38:40
3. 03 - You Amuse Me and I'll Amuse You — 49:37
4. 04 - Aunt Miriam — 14:56
5. 05 - As to Whether a Flower Can Grow in the Woods — 24:35
6. 06 - Queechy at Dinner — 37:17
7. 07 - The Curtain Falls Upon the Scene — 26:50
8. 08 - The Fairy Leaves the House — 32:25
9. 09 - How Mr. Carleton Happened to Be Not at Home — 25:05
10. 10 - The Fairy and the Englishman — 30:55
11. 11 - A Little Candle — 32:35
12. 12 - Spars Below — 39:08
13. 13 - The Fairy Peeps into an English House, but Does Not Stay There — 32:40
14. 14 - Two Bibles in Paris — 35:09
15. 15 - Very Literary — 34:49
16. 16 - Dissolving View - Ending with a Saw-Mill in the Distance — 28:35
17. 17 - Rain and Water - Cresses for Breakfast — 17:37
18. 18 - Mr. Rossitur's Wits Sharpened upon a Ploughshare — 25:44
19. 19 - Fleda Goes After Help and Finds Dr. Quackenboss — 34:31
20. 20 - Society in Queechy — 34:28
21. 21 - 'The Sweetness of a Man's Friend by a Hearty Counsel' — 35:14
22. 22 - Wherein a Great Many People Pay Their Respects in Form and Substance — 35:16
23. 23 - The Captain Out-Generalled by the Fairy — 32:10
24. 24 - A Breath of the World at Queechy — 28:58

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