The Cinder Pond: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Cinder Pond by Carroll Watson Rankin: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 27 original MP3 tracks, 5:17:59 running time and a link to listen.
The Cinder Pond, credited to Carroll Watson Rankin, 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 Cinder Pond, by Carroll Watson Rankin. Read by Betsie Bush. Years ago, a manufacturer built a great dock, jutting out from and then turning parallel to the shore of a northern Michigan town. The factory was abandoned, and following the habits of small towns, the space between the dock and the shore became "The Cinder Pond." Jean started life in the colony of squatters that came to live in the shanties on the dock, but fortune, heroism, and a mystery combine to change her fortunes and those of her friends near the Cinder Pond. (Advertising material from the publisher, 1915) More than one girl who reads this story will envy Jeanne her queer little home out on the end of the old dock in Lake Superior. It must indeed have been a fascinating place to live, but Jeanne's father, a gentleman himself, wanted her to grow up to be a lady, so she was sent away to be trained and educated among strangers. They were her own relatives, but they could never be anything but strangers to her, for they had no love in their hearts for the little girl who had come to make a home with them. Only her grandfather learned to love her, for she filled a bright place in his lonely life, and the story tells how he showed his feeling for her and how she was able to go back to Cinder Pond to help her little stepbrothers and -sisters. (Book Review Digest, vol. 11, 1916) An interesting story of a little French girl, who lived with her step-family on a dock near the Cinder Pond and who after several trying experiences finds a good home and real joy in helping care for her several step-brothers and sisters. Though reason for the marriage of Jeannette's father to a shiftless, but kindly Irish woman is unnecessarily emphasized, the story is a very usable one, stamped with Jeanne's friendliness and sincerity. (The Booklist, vol 12, Oct. 1915--July, 1916)
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Cinder Pond
- Author credits: Carroll Watson Rankin
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 27
- Listed recording duration: 5:17:59
Catalogue topics
- fiction
- children
- young adult
- Great Lakes
- Lake Superior
Opening tracks: first 24 of 27
- 01 - The Accident — 13:34
- 02 - Part of the Truth — 11:19
- 03 - Jeannette's Queer Family — 12:08
- 04 - What Was In an Old Trunk — 13:42
- 05 - The Sewing Lesson — 12:06
- 06 - Mollie — 13:03
- 07 - A Matter of Coats — 10:58
- 08 - A Shopping Expedition — 9:27
- 09 - The Flight — 13:37
- 10 - The Arrival — 13:18
- 11 - A New Life — 12:57
- 12 - A Helpful Grandfather — 10:43
- 13 - Banished Friends — 10:12
- 14 - At Four A.M. — 11:45
- 15 - Allen Rossiter — 13:32
- 16 - An Old Album — 12:44
- 17 - A Lonely Summer — 14:21
- 18 - A Thunderbolt — 13:24
- 19 - With the Rossiters — 8:50
- 20 - A Missing Family — 13:53
- 21 - Old Captain's News — 11:52
- 22 - Roger's Razor — 9:57
- 23 - A New Friend For Jeanne — 11:07
- 24 - Mollie's Babies — 11:44
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