The First Sir Percy: An Adventure of the Laughing Cavalier: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The First Sir Percy: An Adventure of the Laughing Cavalier, credited to Baroness Emma Orczy, 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 First Sir Percy: An Adventure of the Laughing Cavalier by Baroness Emma Orczy. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers Sequel to The Laughing Cavalier, The First Sir Percy picks up the cavalier’s story three months later. The second novel in Baroness Orczy’s swashbuckling series, this one set in the Netherlands, contains all the same adventurous elements as the novels that follow. Percy Blake, who calls himself Diogenes, is the Scarlet Pimpernel’s worthy ancestor. - Summary by Winnifred Assmann

Recording facts

• Recording title: The First Sir Percy: An Adventure of the Laughing Cavalier
• Author credits: Baroness Emma Orczy
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 23
• Listed recording duration: 10:03:29

Catalogue topics

• history
• scarlet pimpernel
• 17th century
• Netherlands
• swashbuckling adventure

Track guide

1. 1.1 A Night on the Veluwe — 11:23
2. 02 - 1.2 A Night on the Veluwe, cont'd — 41:08
3. 03 - 1.3 A Night on the Veluwe, cont'd — 8:30
4. 04 - 2.1 The Double Wedding — 28:08
5. 05 - 2.2 The Double Wedding, cont'd — 32:09
6. 06 - 3.1 The Great Interruption — 16:31
7. 07 - 3.2 The Great Interruption. cont'd — 31:09
8. 08 - 4 Adder's Fork — 26:43
9. 09 - 5 A Race for Life — 10:18
10. 10 - 6.1 A Nest of Scorpions — 25:09
11. 11 - 6.2 A Nest of Scorpions, cont'd — 19:40
12. 12 - 7 A Subtle Traitor — 21:57
13. 13 - 8 Devil's-Writ — 31:15
14. 14 - 9 Mala Fides — 37:26
15. 15 - 10 A Prince of Darkness — 36:58
16. 16 - 11 The Danger-Spoke — 25:59
17. 17 - 12 Tears, Sighs, Hearts — 20:43
18. 18 - 13 The Stygian Creek — 21:49
19. 19 - 14.1 Treachery — 39:30
20. 20 - 14.2 Treachery, cont'd — 42:57
21. 21 - 15 The Molen on the Veluwe — 52:43
22. 22 - 16 The Final Issue — 17:48
23. 23 - 17 The Only World — 3:36

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