The Girl From the Marsh Croft: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Girl From the Marsh Croft, credited to Selma Lagerlöf, 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 Girl From the Marsh Croft by Selma Lagerlöf. (Translated by Velma Swanston Howard.) Read in English by Lars Rolander (1942 - 2016) and Algy Pug. Readers of Miss Lagerlöf will observe that in this, her latest book, "The Girl from the Marsh Croft," the Swedish author has abandoned her former world of Romanticism and has entered the field of Naturalism and Realism. This writer's romantic style is most marked, perhaps, in her first successful work, "Gösta Berling." How "The Story of Gösta Berling" grew, and the years required to perfect it, is told in the author's unique literary autobiography, "The Story of a Story," which is embodied in the present volume. In "The Girl from the Marsh Croft" Miss Lagerlöf has courageously chosen a girl who had gone astray as the heroine of her love story, making her innate honesty and goodness the redemptive qualities which win for her the love of an honest man and the respect and esteem of all. (This novella is one of nine short stories included in this collection.) To the kindness of the publishers of Good Housekeeping, I am indebted for permission to include "The Legend of the Christmas Rose" in this volume. This book is translated and published with the sanction of the author, Selma Lagerlöf. - (Prefatory note from the etext)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Girl From the Marsh Croft
• Author credits: Selma Lagerlöf
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 6:05:12

Catalogue topics

• philosophy
• religion
• realism
• naturalism

Track guide

1. 01 - The Girl from the Marsh Croft - Chapter I — 17:12
2. 02 - The Girl from the Marsh Croft - Chapter II — 27:52
3. 03 - The Girl from the Marsh Croft - Chapter III — 22:30
4. 04 - The Girl from the Marsh Croft - Chapter IV — 7:42
5. 05 - The Girl from the Marsh Croft - Chapter V - Part 1 — 19:51
6. 06 - The Girl from the Marsh Croft - Chapter V - Part 2 — 21:59
7. 07 - The Girl from the Marsh Croft - Chapter VI — 15:57
8. 08 - The Silver Mine — 32:28
9. 09 - The Airship - Part 1 — 28:43
10. 10 - The Airship - Part 2 — 23:21
11. 11 - The Wedding March — 11:38
12. 12 - The Musician — 20:15
13. 13 - The Legend of the Christmas Rose — 39:32
14. 14 - A Story from Jerusalem — 20:53
15. 15 - Why the Pope Lived to be so Old — 27:35
16. 16 - The Story of a Story — 27:44

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