Rock Crystal: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Rock Crystal, credited to Adalbert Stifter, 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 Rock Crystal by Adalbert Stifter. Translated by Lee M. Hollander Read by Greg W. On Christmas Eve, two children, a brother and sister, leave their grandmother's house in an Alpine village and get lost in the mountain snow. They become trapped among the rock crystals of the frozen glacier. This short and gripping novel, by 19th century Austrian master Adalbert Stifter, influenced Thomas Mann and others with its suspenseful, simple, myth-like story and majestic depictions of nature. Poet W.H. Auden called the work "a quiet and beautiful parable about the relation of people to places, of man to nature."(Introduction by Greg W.)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Rock Crystal
• Author credits: Adalbert Stifter
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 6
• Listed recording duration: 1:52:28

Catalogue topics

• fiction

Track guide

1. 01 - Section 1 — 15:57
2. 02 - Section 2 — 19:55
3. 03 - Section 3 — 14:52
4. 04 - Section 4 — 19:08
5. 05 - Section 5 — 20:54
6. 06 - Section 6 — 21:44

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