Salome and the Head: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Salome and the Head, credited to E. Nesbit, 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 Salome and the Head by E. Nesbit. Read in English by Peter Yearsley. Edmund Templar is visiting some relatives before being shipped off to the war in South Africa. Wandering in the New Forest, he encounters a strange girl dancing in a clearing, to the music of a penny whistle played by a crippled boy. Eight years later, on his return from the war, he traces the girl, now a young woman, and her musician, and gets deeply involved in their strange history and their stranger future. Edith Nesbit's story is strongly coloured by society's constraints on the lives of women, and by love and by death. (Summary by Peter Yearsley.)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Salome and the Head
• Author credits: E. Nesbit
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 19
• Listed recording duration: 7:47:33

Track guide

1. 01 - Sunlight — 24:24
2. 02 - Limelight — 23:03
3. 03 - The house with no address — 22:58
4. 04 - The false moustache — 16:45
5. 05 - The disaster — 26:50
6. 06 - The snare — 24:50
7. 07 - The lover — 22:31
8. 08 - The husband — 24:43
9. 09 - The widow — 31:01
10. 10 - Lovers meeting — 19:54
11. 11 - The love-night — 28:21
12. 12 - Miss Steinhart shops — 31:47
13. 13 - The head — 27:25
14. 14 - The death night — 17:58
15. 15 - The intruder — 23:09
16. 16 - The serving man — 35:40
17. 17 - The cat from the bag — 24:32
18. 18 - The knight-errant — 23:59
19. 19 - Release — 17:43

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