The Countess of Lowndes Square, and Other Stories: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Countess of Lowndes Square, and Other Stories, credited to E. F. Benson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of The Countess of Lowndes Square, and Other Stories by E. F. Benson. Read in English by Zechariah Raman; jimsvox4; Kate Follis; Michele McFarland; Devorah Allen; Roman Noble A collection of fourteen short stories, grouped under the headings of "Blackmailing Stories", "Spook Stories", "Cat Stories", "Crank Stories", and "General Stories". From the preface: "[S]uch readers as are in search merely of the lighter...aspects of life, will be able to avoid like poison so innocent-looking a title as "The Countess of Lowndes Square," for surely they would not find therein the fashionable descriptions of high life which they might reasonably anticipate, but would merely cast the book from them in disgust, when they discovered that one who had been the wife of an Earl, and ought therefore to have known ever so much better, belonged to the most contemptible of the criminal classes." - Summary by Devorah Allen

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Countess of Lowndes Square, and Other Stories
• Author credits: E. F. Benson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 7:54:21

Catalogue topics

• ghosts
• cats
• blackmail

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 3:31
2. 01 - Blackmailing Stories, Chapter 1: The Countess of Lowndes Square — 38:20
3. 02 - Blackmailing Stories, Chapter 2: The Blackmailer of Park Lane — 43:18
4. 03 - Blackmailing Stories, Chapter 2: The Blackmailer of Park Lane, continued — 29:00
5. 04 - General Stories, Chapter 1: The Dance on the Beefsteak — 24:38
6. 05 - General Stories, Chapter 2: The Oriolists — 39:32
7. 06 - General Stories, Chapter 3: In the Dark — 27:55
8. 07 - General Stories, Chapter 4: The False Step — 26:02
9. 08 - Spook Stories, Chapter 1: The Case of Frank Hampden — 44:01
10. 09 - Spook Stories, Chapter 2: Mrs. Andrews's Control — 21:48
11. 10 - Spook Stories, Chapter 3: The Ape — 44:06
12. 11 - Spook Stories, Chapter 4: ''Through'' — 29:19
13. 12 - Cat Stories, Chapter 1: ''Puss-Cat'' — 22:03
14. 13 - Cat Stories, Chapter 2: There Arose a King — 23:17
15. 14 - Crank Stories, Chapter 1: The Tragedy of Oliver Bowman — 27:24
16. 15 - Crank Stories, Chapter 2: Philip's Safety Razor — 30:07

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