The Adventures of Ulysses: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Adventures of Ulysses, credited to Charles Lamb, 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 Ulysses, by Charles Lamb. Read by Rebecca. Lamb used Homer’s Odyssey as the basis for the re-telling of the story of Ulysses’s journey back from Troy to his own kingdom of Ithaca. Not a direct translation and deemed modern in its time, Lamb states in the preface that, “I have gained a rapidity to the narration which I hope will make it more attractive and give it more the air of a romance to young readers”. (Summary by Rebecca)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Adventures of Ulysses
• Author credits: Charles Lamb
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 11
• Listed recording duration: 3:47:16

Catalogue topics

• lamb
• mythology
• ulysses
• adventure

Track guide

1. 00 Preface — 2:44
2. 01 The Cicons. The Fruit of the Lotus-tree. Polyphemus and the Cyclops. The Kingdom of the Winds, and God Aeolus's Fatal Present. The Laestrygonian Man-eaters. — 29:28
3. 02 The House of Circe. Men changed into Beasts. The Voyage to Hell. The Banquet of the Dead. — 34:45
4. 03 The Song of the Sirens. Scylla and Charybdis. The Oxen of the Sun. The Judgment. The Crew Killed by Lightning. — 22:49
5. 04 The Island of Calypso. Immortality Refused. — 10:57
6. 05 The Tempest. The Sea-bird's Gift. The Escape by Swimming. The Sleep in the Woods. — 14:24
7. 06 The Princess Nausicaa. The Washing. The Game with the Ball. The Court of Phaeacia and King Alcinous. — 15:35
8. 07 The Songs of Demodocus. The Convoy Home. The Manners. Transformed to Stone. The Young Shepherd. — 21:53
9. 08 The Change from a King to a Beggar. Eumaeus and the Herdsmen. Telemachus. — 31:53
10. 09 The Queen's Suitors. The Battle of the Beggars. The Armour Taken Down. The Meeting with Penelope. — 21:22
11. 10 The Madness from Above. The Bow of Ulysses. The Slaughter. The Conclusion. — 21:34

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