The Daredevil: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Daredevil by Maria Thompson Daviess: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 20 original MP3 tracks, 6:10:59 running time and a link to listen.
The Daredevil, credited to Maria Thompson Daviess, 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 Daredevil by Maria Thompson Daviess. Read in English by LikeManyWaters Roberta, daughter of an American soldier and a French marquise, is returning to the childhood home of her father after his death in the Great War. Upon reaching New York she realizes that her Uncle, a woman-hater, has confused the genders of her and her small crippled brother. In order to please her Uncle and ensure medical treatment for Pierre, she becomes "Robert", his nephew. In her new identity she secures supplies for France, has many hilarious close-calls, and manages to fall in love with the Governor. - Summary by LikeManyWaters
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Daredevil
- Author credits: Maria Thompson Daviess
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 20
- Listed recording duration: 6:10:59
Catalogue topics
- culture
- romance
- espionage
- World War I
- WWI
- spies
- disguise
- love
Track guide
- 01 - Sparkling Waves over High Explosives — 23:53
- 02 - Vive La France — 25:23
- 03 - That Mr. G. Slade of Detroit — 22:32
- 04 - The Impossible Uncle Robert — 15:48
- 05 - ''Here's My Boy, Governor'' — 13:31
- 06 - ''We Both Need You'' — 15:14
- 07 - The Girl Bunch — 9:07
- 08 - In the Dress of Magnificence — 17:26
- 09 - ''O'er the Land of the Free-'' — 16:39
- 10 - Vitriol and the Hoodoo — 22:40
- 11 - Business and Pie — 20:03
- 12 - The Beautiful Madam Whitworth — 19:14
- 13 - Brothers by Bloodshed — 20:04
- 14 - To Bear Men and to Save Them — 17:16
- 15 - ''Behold, I Am a Spy!'' — 17:06
- 16 - ''Immediately I Come to You!'' — 16:04
- 17 - The Tall Timbers of Old Harpeth — 18:33
- 18 - The Camp Heaven — 18:16
- 19 - All is Lost — 22:10
- 20 - ''You Are-Myself!'' — 20:00
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