Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, credited to MacDonald, George, 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:

George MacDonald is mainly known for his fantasy works and fairy tales such as At the Back of the North Wind and The Princess and the Goblin. However, during his life he was more famous for many more realistic novels... among them the somewhat autobiographical Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood. This story of a young motherless boy growing up with his brothers in a Scottish manse is full of delightful characters. There is Kirsty, an enchanting Highland storyteller, Turkey, the intrepid cowherd, the evil Kelpie, and the lovely Elsie Duff. Throughout the twists and turns of his escapades and adventures Ranald learns from his father the important lessons of courage and integrity. When Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood came out in 1871 the New York Independent praised it as "full of sweetness, full of boy-life and true goodness". Perhaps, but it is also a good story, from the master of storytellers. (Summary by Bookworm) Readers include: Bookworm Matthew Walton Ophelia Darcy Cyril Law, Jr. Heather Lambert Lucy Burgoyne Kevin McAsh Kirsten Ferreri Christine Blachford Cindy Steib Konrad Planck Arctura Larry Gilman

Recording facts

• Recording title: Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood
• Author credits: MacDonald, George
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 36
• Combined MP3 track duration: 7:05:08

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• children

Opening tracks: first 24 of 36

1. 01 -- Introductory — 3:39
2. 02 -- The Glimmer of Twilight — 10:06
3. 03 -- My Father — 8:30
4. 04 -- Kirsty — 7:57
5. 05 -- I Begin Life — 9:23
6. 06 -- No Father — 13:55
7. 07 -- Mrs Mitchell Is Defeated — 9:32
8. 08 -- A New Schoolmistress — 6:13
9. 09 -- We Learn Other Things — 17:41
10. 10 -- Sir Worm Wymble — 17:12
11. 11 -- The Kelpie — 6:00
12. 12 -- Another Kelpie — 12:52
13. 13 -- Wandering Willie — 20:50
14. 14 -- Elsie Duff — 12:04
15. 15 -- A New Companion — 8:06
16. 16 -- I Go Down Hill — 13:16
17. 17 -- The Trouble Grows — 6:06
18. 18 -- Light out of Darkness — 11:08
19. 19 -- Forgiveness — 10:01
20. 20 -- I Have a Fall and a Dream — 18:28
21. 21 -- The Bees' Nest — 19:29
22. 22 -- Vain Intercession — 8:00
23. 23 -- Knight-Errantry — 12:57
24. 24 -- Failure — 13:43

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