The Bent Twig: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Bent Twig, credited to Dorothy Canfield Fisher, 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 Bent Twig, by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Read by Bellona Times. Semi-autobiographical series of incidents in the life of an intellectual American family in the late 19th - early 20th Century as seen by favored daughter, Sylvia Marshall. Her father is an economics professor in a Midwestern state university and she is following in his inquisitive footsteps. Canfield writes this in a matter-of-fact manner with Tarkingtonesque good humor. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Bent Twig
• Author credits: Dorothy Canfield Fisher
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 47
• Listed recording duration: 18:14:02

Catalogue topics

• family
• unconventional
• kids
• Montessori
• Americana

Opening tracks: first 24 of 47

1. 01 - Chapter I, Sylvia's Home — 21:48
2. 02 - Chapter II, The Marshall's Friends — 33:08
3. 03 = Chapter III, Brother And Sister — 26:17
4. 04 - Chapter IV, Every One's Opinion of Every One Else — 14:01
5. 05 - Chapter V, Something About Husbands — 18:44
6. 06 - Chapter VI, The Sights Of La Chance — 36:25
7. 07 - Chapter VII, 'We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident...' — 50:52
8. 08 - Chapter VIII, Sabotage — 26:47
9. 09 - Chapter IX, The End Of Childhood — 23:31
10. 10 - Chapter X, Sylvia's First Glimpse Of Modern Civilization — 21:19
11. 11 - Chapter XI, Arnold's Future Is Casually Decided — 17:34
12. 12 - Chapter XII, One Man's Meat — 16:11
13. 13 - Chapter XIII, An Instrument In Tune — 14:34
14. 14 - Chapter XIV, Higher Education — 18:55
15. 15 - Chapter XV, Mrs. Draper Blows The Coals — 27:06
16. 16 - Chapter XVI, Playing With Matches — 32:04
17. 17 - Chapter XVII, Mrs. Marshall Sticks To Her Principles — 30:02
18. 18 - Chapter XVIII, Sylvia Skates Merrily On Thin Ice — 29:47
19. 19 - Chapter XIX, As A Bird Out Of A Snare — 25:00
20. 20 - Chapter XX, 'Blow, Wind; Swell, Billow; And Swim, Bark!' — 34:53
21. 21 - Chapter XXI, Some Years During Which Nothing Happens — 9:09
22. 22 - Chapter XXII, A Grateful Carthaginian — 27:26
23. 23 - Chapter XXIII, More Talk Between Young Moderns — 26:45
24. 24 - Chapter XXIV, Another Brand Of Modern Talk — 28:13

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