The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations, credited to Charlotte Mary Yonge, 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 Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte Mary Yonge. Read in English by Hannah Mary; Gaëlle Gosselin; Bhavya; Nancy Gorgen; jenno; Brooke Favorat; ChadH94 Join the endearing May family in small-town England as each member lives through some pivotal years. How will they face the changes that shake their family to the core? To quote the preface: "It would beg to be considered merely as what it calls itself, a Family Chronicle—a domestic record of home events, large and small, during those years of early life when the character is chiefly formed, and as an endeavour to trace the effects of those aspirations which are a part of every youthful nature." The following cast list (including nicknames) may be helpful when first meeting the large May family. Parents: Dick and Maggie, Children: Richard (May), Margaret, Flora, Norman (June), Ethel, Harry (July), Mary, Tom (August), Blanche, Aubrey, Gertrude Margaret (Daisy) (Summary by HannahMary)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations
• Author credits: Charlotte Mary Yonge
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 58
• Listed recording duration: 29:54:26

Catalogue topics

• friends
• faith
• family
• school
• trials
• ambition

Opening tracks: first 24 of 58

1. 00 - Preface — 1:44
2. 01 - Part 1, Chapter 1 — 27:04
3. 02 - Part 1, Chapter 2 — 21:02
4. 03 - Part 1, Chapter 3 — 33:35
5. 04 - Part 1, Chapter 4 — 26:17
6. 05 - Part 1, Chapter 5 — 29:31
7. 06 - Part 1, Chapter 6 — 27:21
8. 07 - Part 1, Chapter 7 — 25:53
9. 08 - Part 1, Chapter 8 — 29:13
10. 09 - Part 1, Chapter 9 — 37:26
11. 10 - Part 1, Chapter 10 — 16:51
12. 11 - Part 1, Chapter 11 — 26:46
13. 12 - Part 1, Chapter 12 — 24:43
14. 13 - Part 1, Chapter 13 — 31:13
15. 14 - Part 1, Chapter 14 — 28:06
16. 15 - Part 1, Chapter 15 — 32:57
17. 16 - Part 1, Chapter 16 — 21:15
18. 17 - Part 1, Chapter 17 — 25:39
19. 18 - Part 1, Chapter 18 — 36:10
20. 19 - Part 1, Chapter 19 — 37:12
21. 20 - Part 1, Chapter 20 — 47:12
22. 21 - Part 1, Chapter 21 — 25:43
23. 22 - Part 1, Chapter 22 — 38:05
24. 23 - Part 1, Chapter 23 — 19:15

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