The Beach of Dreams: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Beach of Dreams, credited to H. De Vere Stacpoole, 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 Beach of Dreams by H. De Vere Stacpoole. Read by LibriVox Volunteers Two sailors, Harbutt and Raft, discuss their plight as workers under the thumb of a wealthy owner. During a windstorm, Raft and his fellow hands must climb a mast of the three-master to control a rigging gone astray. Once they master that runaway rigging, they pause to watch another vessel in the distance. It's a ship many have seen before. We are introduced to the occupants of this new ship, the Gaston de Paris. The owner is Prince Selm, who loves the finest things in life, yet is drawn to the sea. His guests are an elderly eccentric woman, Madame de Warens, and her adopted daughter, Cleo de Bromsart, an unmarried 20-year-old who looks down on the lower classes. Madame de Warens is upset that Cleo has rejected Selm's proposal of marriage. Cleo, feeling an urge to go on deck, puts on storm gear and begins to climb the steps. Suddenly the engines thrust the ship forward fast, throwing Cleo back. She rushes up on deck to see the three-master hovering near, the name Albatross on its side. Her ship is listing to port. The last thing she remembers is Prince Selm's voice. Many questions remain: the fate of either ship, the safety of Madame Warens, and not the least the future of Cleo and Selm. (summary by Bill Boerst)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Beach of Dreams
• Author credits: H. De Vere Stacpoole
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 29
• Listed recording duration: 7:54:16

Catalogue topics

• shipwreck
• sailing

Opening tracks: first 24 of 29

1. 01 - Part I, Chapters 1 and 2 — 17:38
2. 02 - Part I, Chapter 3 — 29:52
3. 03 - Part I, Chapters 4 and 5 — 16:24
4. 04 - Part I, Chapters 6 and 7 — 27:15
5. 05 - Part II, Chapter 8 — 11:42
6. 06 - Part II, Chapter 9 — 23:32
7. 07 - Part II, Chapter 10 — 10:51
8. 08 - Part II, Chapter 11 — 19:04
9. 09 - Part II, Chapter 12 — 12:23
10. 10 - Part II, Chapter 13 — 13:44
11. 11 - Part II, Chapter 14 — 18:41
12. 12 - Part II, Chapters 15, 16, and 17 — 20:20
13. 13 - Part III, Chapter 18 — 13:11
14. 14 - Part III, Chapters 19 and 20 — 17:12
15. 15 - Part IV, Chapters 21 and 22 — 20:32
16. 16 - Part IV, Chapter 23 — 14:49
17. 17 - Part IV, Chapter 24 — 13:53
18. 18 - Part IV, Chapter 25 — 22:55
19. 19 - Part IV, Chapter 26 — 9:27
20. 20 - Part V, Chapter 27 — 25:21
21. 21 - Part V, Chapter 28 — 7:07
22. 22 - Part V, Chapter 29 — 8:10
23. 23 - Part V, Chapter 30 — 7:43
24. 24 - Part V, Chapter 31 — 11:59

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