The Flying Girl: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Flying Girl by L. Frank Baum: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 27 original MP3 tracks, 4:50:36 running time and a link to listen.
The Flying Girl, credited to L. Frank Baum, 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 Flying Girl by L. Frank Baum. Read in English by Diana Schmidt; Jason in Panama; Marialuisa Ruiz; realisticspeakers; Eli27; Jibchmarl; jcrosbie; Christi Luphe; Kalynda; Michael Fassio Frank L. Baum, author of the Oz books, delivers an engaging story for all ages. Orissa Kane works in order to provide for her family. Her mother is blind, while her brother devotes his time to his invention, a flying machine. Everything changes when he brakes his leg and Orissa decides to continue developing the machine. This fascinating and relatable book explores the early days of aviation, and the changing role of women. Frank L. Baum chose to publish this book under the name Edith Van Dime. - Summary by Stav Nisser.
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Flying Girl
- Author credits: L. Frank Baum
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 27
- Listed recording duration: 4:50:36
Catalogue topics
- adventure
- melodrama
- aviation
- feminist fiction
- family life
Opening tracks: first 24 of 27
- 00 - Foreword — 2:23
- 01 - Orissa — 7:57
- 02 - A Disciple of Aviation — 14:28
- 03 - The Kane Aircraft — 10:08
- 04 - Mr. Burthon is Confidential — 13:15
- 05 - Between Man and Man, and a Girl — 12:19
- 06 - A Bucking Biplane — 8:11
- 07 - Something Wrong — 12:01
- 08 - Mr. Burthon’s Proposition — 8:30
- 09 - The Other Fellow — 5:54
- 10 - A Fresh Start — 6:38
- 11 - Orissa Resigns — 9:45
- 12 - The Spying of Tot Tyler — 10:37
- 13 - Sybil is Critical — 10:13
- 14 - The Flying Fever — 12:40
- 15 - A Final Test — 13:00
- 16 - The Opening Gun — 9:43
- 17 - A Curious Accident — 5:58
- 18 - The One to Blame — 12:43
- 19 - Planning the Campaign — 10:42
- 20 - Uncle and Niece — 11:22
- 21 - Mr. H. Chesterton Radley-Todd — 12:10
- 22 - The Flying Girl — 13:15
- 23 - A Battle in the Air — 13:38
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