The Adventures of an Ugly Girl: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Adventures of an Ugly Girl, credited to Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett, 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 The Adventures of an Ugly Girl by Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett. Read in English by Zarina Silverman; Rainee; Sarah Hite; KHand; CoffeeLover17; Betsy Walker; Kathleen Moore “Come, Dora! I shall never be ready, if you don’t make haste. They will be here in ten minutes, and my hair is not half so nice as it ought to be, thanks to your carelessness.” “You are very good to ignore my own claims to attention so utterly. I have been helping you this half-hour and have barely time enough left to change my frock. To make my own hair presentable is impossible now.” “Why, what does it matter how your hair is dressed, or what sort of a gown you put on? You may just as well spare your pains, for unfortunately nothing that you can do seems to mitigate your ugliness. I’m sure I cannot think where you get it. You are—” But, somehow, I did not feel inclined to wait for the end of Belle’s encouraging lecture. Perhaps it was because I was so often treated to my beautiful elder sister’s homilies that they had lost the spark of novelty and had acquired a chestnuty flavor. Perhaps I failed to recognize any generosity in her persistent efforts to nip such latent buds of vanity as from time to time tried to thrust their poor little heads above the chill crust of ridicule and contumely. Perhaps I was really as bad-tempered as I was said to be. Anyhow, my behavior could not claim to be either quiet or elegant as I stormily quitted Belle’s room, slamming the door behind me with such violence as to elicit from my more well-bred sister a little shriek of affected dismay. So far from feeling sorry that I had given Belle’s nerves a shock, I wished viciously that her fingers had been jammed in the doorway, or that something equally disastrous had occurred to take off the edge of her conceit and self-satisfaction." To be the homely sister is a torture to Dorrie, but she must make the best of it as she watches the beautiful Belle receive all the attention and adulation... but what choices will Belle make and what effect will they have on her life? And will Dorrie achieve the happiness even an ugly girl deserves? - Summary by Lynne Thompson

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Adventures of an Ugly Girl
• Author credits: Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 7:27:33

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter 1 — 39:45
2. 02 - Chapter 2 — 31:54
3. 03 - Chapter 3 — 35:40
4. 04 - Chapter 4 — 31:38
5. 05 - Chapter 5 — 28:37
6. 06 - Chapter 6 — 29:29
7. 07 - Chapter 7 — 36:11
8. 08 - Chapter 8 — 35:37
9. 09 - Chapter 9 — 33:47
10. 10 - Chapter 10 — 33:49
11. 11 - Chapter 11 — 24:49
12. 12 - Chapter 12 — 13:41
13. 13 - Chapter 13 — 21:58
14. 14 - Chapter 14 — 13:38
15. 15 - Chapter 15 — 25:09
16. 16 - Chapter 16 — 11:51

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