The May Flower and Miscellaneous Writings: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The May Flower and Miscellaneous Writings, credited to Harriet Beecher Stowe, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The May Flower and Miscellaneous Writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Read in English by Michele Fry; Jim Locke; April6090; Emma Charlotte; Kate Follis; Kathleen Moore; realisticspeakers; Larry Wilson Included herein are 35 charming short stories or humorous sketches, some written as exercises for the literary Semi-Colon Club of Cincinnati which Stowe belonged to for years, others published in magazines of the time, and 7 religious poems. Stowe honed her expressive skills on many of these before writing her first serious novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and 30 other books that followed. They showcase her considerable skill even as a young writer, and she made good money doing it, often supporting her family. This collection, named after a flower native to the east coast, likely the Anemone hepatica, or 'May flower', should not to be confused with another collection by Stowe, The Mayflower, which provides sketches of several descendants of the Pilgrims. - Summary by Michele Fry

Recording facts

• Recording title: The May Flower and Miscellaneous Writings
• Author credits: Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 49
• Listed recording duration: 14:33:21

Catalogue topics

• Historical Fiction
• new england sketches

Opening tracks: first 24 of 49

1. 00 - Introduction — 3:07
2. 01 - 1.1 Uncle Lot — 34:56
3. 02 - 1.2 Uncle Lot — 30:25
4. 03 - 2.1 LOVE versus LAW — 28:12
5. 04 - 2.2 LOVE versus LAW — 31:22
6. 05 - 2.3 LOVE versus LAW — 29:57
7. 06 - 3 The Tea Rose — 16:51
8. 07 - 4 Trials Of A Housekeeper — 12:50
9. 08 - 5 Little Edward — 14:09
10. 09 - 6 Aunt Mary — 17:11
11. 10 - 7 Frankness — 10:02
12. 11 - 8.1 The Sabbath - Sketches — 23:48
13. 12 - 8.2 The Sabbath - Sketches — 12:48
14. 13 - 8.3 The Sabbath - Sketches — 20:03
15. 14 - 9 Let Every Man Mind His Own Business — 47:28
16. 15 - 10 Cousin William — 24:31
17. 16 - 11 The Ministration of our Departed Friends - A New Year's Revery — 12:12
18. 17 - 12 Mrs A. and Mrs. B; or What She Thinks About It — 15:00
19. 18 - 13 Christmas; or, The Good Fairy — 18:17
20. 19 - 14 Earthly Care A Heavenly Discipline — 18:49
21. 20 - 15 Conversation On Conversation — 17:44
22. 21 - 16 How Do We Know? — 8:46
23. 22 - 17 Which is the Liberal Man? — 30:25
24. 23 - 18 The Elder's Feast - A Tradition of Laodicea — 17:33

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