The Grey Fairy Book: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Grey Fairy Book, credited to Andrew Lang, 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 Grey Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang. Read by LibriVox Volunteers. The tales in the Grey Fairy Book are derived from many countries—Lithuania, various parts of Africa, Germany, France, Greece, and other regions of the world. They have been translated and adapted by Mrs. Dent, Mrs. Lang, Miss Eleanor Sellar, Miss Blackley, and Miss hang. 'The Three Sons of Hali' is from the last century 'Cabinet des Fees,' a very large collection. The French author may have had some Oriental original before him in parts; at all events he copied the Eastern method of putting tale within tale, like the Eastern balls of carved ivory. The stories, as usual, illustrate the method of popular fiction. A certain number of incidents are shaken into many varying combinations, like the fragments of coloured glass in the kaleidoscope. Probably the possible combinations, like possible musical combinations, are not unlimited in number, but children may be less sensitive in the matter of fairies than Mr. John Stuart Mill was as regards music. (Summary from the preface)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Grey Fairy Book
• Author credits: Andrew Lang
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 36
• Listed recording duration: 9:51:54

Catalogue topics

• children
• fairy tales
• andrew lang

Opening tracks: first 24 of 36

1. 00 - Preface — 1:36
2. 01 - Donkey Skin — 26:26
3. 02 - The Goblin Pony — 4:42
4. 03 - An Impossible Enchantment — 30:18
5. 04 - The Story Of Dschemil and Dschemila — 34:22
6. 05 - Janni and the Draken — 10:51
7. 06 - The Partnership of the Thief and the Liar — 12:10
8. 07 - Fortunatus and His Purse — 13:16
9. 08 - The Goat-faced Girl — 12:51
10. 09 - What Came of Picking Flowers — 11:30
11. 10 - The Story of Bensurdatu — 17:51
12. 11 - The Magician's Horse — 18:08
13. 12 - The Little Gray Man — 8:09
14. 13 - Herr Lazarus and the Draken — 6:50
15. 14 - The Story of the Queen of the Flowery Isles — 17:14
16. 15 - Udea and Her Seven Brothers — 20:43
17. 16 - The White Wolf — 14:59
18. 17 - Mohammed with the Magic Finger — 31:18
19. 18 - Bobino — 11:18
20. 19 - The Dog and the Sparrow — 9:27
21. 20 - The Story of the Three Sons of Hali — 50:52
22. 21 - The Story of the Fair Circassians — 29:37
23. 22 - The Jackal and the Spring — 6:26
24. 23 - The Bear — 12:26

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