Tales of a Traveller: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Tales of a Traveller, credited to Washington Irving, 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 Tales of a Traveller by Washington Irving. Read in English by Greg Giordano Writing under the pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon, Washington Irving chronicled his travels through Europe in the early 1820’s. He wrote of people he met, places he saw and stories he was told. In fact, much of the work is recounting tales told to him by those with exotic adventures that were waiting to be shared. “Tales of a Traveler” is broken up into four separate parts or “Books,” as Irving called them. The final book is almost a post-script to “Knickerbocker’s History of New York” as he tells stories and describes Manhattan Island and nearby lands as they were almost two hundred years ago. This rough land, still mostly wilderness, had the fingerprints of the early Dutch colonists evident throughout. (Greg Giordano)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Tales of a Traveller
• Author credits: Washington Irving
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 39
• Listed recording duration: 12:34:46

Catalogue topics

• short stories
• Europe
• essays
• 19th century
• geoffrey crayon

Opening tracks: first 24 of 39

1. 00 - Introduction — 4:42
2. 01 - A Hunting Dinner — 12:03
3. 02 - Adventure of my Uncle — 30:13
4. 03 - Adventure of my Aunt — 12:18
5. 04 - Bold Dragoon — 20:47
6. 05 - Adventure of the Mysterious Picture — 20:47
7. 06 - Adventure of the Mysterious Stranger — 20:49
8. 07 - Story of the Young Italian — 1:12:04
9. 08 - Literary Life — 7:33
10. 09 - Literary Dinner — 8:00
11. 10 - Club of Queer Fellows — 13:30
12. 11 - Poor Devil Author, Part One — 19:00
13. 12 - Poor Devil Author, Part Two — 24:40
14. 13 - Buckthorne; or, the Young Man of Great Expectations, Part One — 30:21
15. 14 - Buckthorne, Part Two — 22:40
16. 15 - Buckthorne, Part Three — 16:18
17. 16 - Buckthorne, Part Four — 15:18
18. 17 - Buckthorne, Part Five — 13:31
19. 18 - Buckthorne, Part Six — 11:29
20. 19 - Buckthorne, Part Seven — 13:45
21. 20 - The Booby Squire — 13:47
22. 21 - The Strolling Manager — 32:06
23. 22 - Inn at Terracina — 27:54
24. 23 - Adventure of the Little Antiquary — 15:55

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