Romantic Tales: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Romantic Tales, credited to Matthew Lewis, 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 Romantic Tales by Matthew Lewis. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Very popular in its day, Romantic Tales is a collection of passionate, thrilling and macabre gothic stories and poems by well-regarded and controversial author Matthew Lewis, creator of the scandalous supernatural gothic novel The Monk. From the haunting medieval gothic of Mistrust; or, Blanche and Osbright to the cruel eco-terror of The Anaconda and from the sweeping fairy tale tinged with dark romanticism The Four Facardins to the exotic gothic fantasy Amorassan; or the Spirit of the Frozen Ocean, this collection of tales will be sure to keep you enthralled for hours! - Summary by Ben Tucker

Recording facts

• Recording title: Romantic Tales
• Author credits: Matthew Lewis
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 39
• Listed recording duration: 20:47:56

Catalogue topics

• romance
• short stories
• Gothic
• poems
• macabre
• grim
• novellas

Opening tracks: first 24 of 39

1. 00 - Preface — 11:12
2. 01 - Mistrust; or, Blanche and Osbright Chapter I — 19:36
3. 02 - Mistrust; or, Blanche and Osbright Chapter II — 22:45
4. 03 - Mistrust; or, Blanche and Osbright Chapter III & IV — 28:04
5. 04 - Mistrust; or, Blanche and Osbright Chapter V — 27:47
6. 05 - Mistrust; or, Blanche and Osbright Chapter VI — 32:34
7. 06 - Mistrust; or, Blanche and Osbright Chapter VII & VIII — 44:27
8. 07 - Mistrust; or, Blanche and Osbright Chapter IX & X — 29:47
9. 08 - Mistrust; or, Blanche and Osbright Chapter XI & XII — 32:09
10. 09 - The Admiral Guarino — 7:27
11. 10 - King Rodrigo's Fall — 6:32
12. 11 - Bertrand and Mary-Belle — 6:15
13. 12 - The Lord of Falkenstein — 3:33
14. 13 - Sir Guy, the Seeker — 15:02
15. 14 - The Anaconda Part 1 — 51:39
16. 15 - The Anaconda Part 2 — 55:38
17. 16 - The Dying Bride — 4:16
18. 17 - The Four Facardins Part 1.1 — 11:06
19. 18 - The Four Facardins Part 1.2 — 54:54
20. 19 - The Four Facardins Part 1.3 — 51:54
21. 20 - The Four Facardins Part 1.4 — 35:35
22. 21 - The Four Facardins Part 1.5 — 33:10
23. 22 - The Four Facardins Part 1.6 — 40:59
24. 23 - The Four Facardins Part 2.1 — 40:39

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