The Diamond Fairy Book: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Diamond Fairy Book, credited to Various, 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 Diamond Fairy Book by Various. Read in English by ShrimpPhish. Join brave (and cowardly) princes, vain and pretty princesses, (as well as some who are good of heart) and mysterious wizards in this collection of fairy stories! Hear about the beautiful but heavy necklace of tears, river monsters, an enchanted bridge and many other fantastical things!(Summary by ShrimpPhish)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Diamond Fairy Book
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 19
• Listed recording duration: 5:46:48

Catalogue topics

• princess crystal or the hidden treasure
• the story of the invisible kingdom
• how sampo lappelill saw the mountain king
• the witch-dancer's doom
• the three valleys
• the spring-tide of love
• ringfalla bridge
• the children's fairy

Track guide

1. 01 - Princess Crystal, or the Hidden Treasure, A Story by Isabel Bellerby — 13:37
2. 02 - The Story of the Invisible Kingdom, from the German of Richard Leander — 21:11
3. 03 - How Sampo Lappelill saw the Mountain King, from the Swedish of Z Topelius — 21:00
4. 04 - The Witch-Dancer's Doom, A Briton Legend — 10:05
5. 05 - The Three Valleys, From the German — 18:17
6. 06 - The Spring-tide of Love, by Pleydell North — 24:03
7. 07 - Ringfalla Bridge, by K E Sutter — 17:57
8. 08 - The Children's Fairy, from the French of Saint-Juirs — 13:49
9. 09 - "Wittysplinter", from the German of Clemens Brentano — 18:04
10. 10 - The Mid-day Rock, from the French of J. Jarry — 15:39
11. 11 - Lillekort, from the French of Xavier Marmier — 11:29
12. 12 - The Ten Little Fairies, from the French of George Mitchell — 15:23
13. 13 - The Magician and his Pupil, from the German of A. Godin — 16:32
14. 14 - The Strawberry Thief, from the German of Pauline Schanz — 18:59
15. 15 - The Adventures of Said, from the German of W. Hauff — 28:42
16. 16 - Little Blue Flower, from the German by Miss F. E. Hynam — 18:31
17. 17 - "The Princess Who Despised all Men", by Charles Smith Cheltnam — 23:40
18. 18 - The Necklace of Tears, by Mrs. Egerton Eastwick — 24:26
19. 19 - The Prince and the Lions, from the Persian — 15:23

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