The Mermaid: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Mermaid, credited to Lily Dougall, 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 Mermaid by Lily Dougall. Read in English by Barry Eads; Lucretia B.; SeanReads; nsiner; Lynne Thompson; Arnie Horton; Rick Spangler; Bill Boerst; Arianna; Christine Stevens; Jill Preston; Tim Quinn; Pooja DSr; Jeremy Robertson "'What a fool I was not to go where she beckoned!' mused Caius. 'Where? Anywhere into the heart of the ocean, out of this dull, sordid life into the land of dreams.' For it must all have been a dream—a sweet, fantastic dream, imposed upon his senses by some influence, outward or inward; but it seemed to him that at the hour when he seemed to see the maid it might have been given him to enter the world of dreams, and go on in some existence which was a truer reality than the one in which he now was. In a deliberate way he thought that perhaps, if the truth were known, he, Dr. Caius Simpson, was going a little mad; but as he sat by the softly lapping sea he did not regret this madness: what he did regret was that he must go home… " (Summary by L. Dougall, excerpt from the text)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Mermaid
• Author credits: Lily Dougall
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 38
• Listed recording duration: 7:49:41

Opening tracks: first 24 of 38

1. 01 - Book 1, Chapter 1 - The Bent Twig — 3:53
2. 02 - Book 1, Chapter 2 - The Sad-Eyed Child — 10:33
3. 03 - Book 1, Chapter 3 - Lost in the Sea — 12:35
4. 04 - Book 1, Chapter 4 - A Quiet Life — 11:11
5. 05 - Book 1, Chapter 5 - Seen Through Blear Eyes — 15:58
6. 06 - Book 1, Chapter 6 - From Hour to Hour We Ripe — 10:32
7. 07 - Book 1, Chapter 7 - A Sea Change — 12:40
8. 08 - Book 1, Chapter 8 - Belief in the Impossible — 11:41
9. 09 - Book 1, Chapter 9 - The Sea-Maid's Music — 15:22
10. 10 - Book 1, Chapter 10 - Towed by the Beard — 10:34
11. 11 - Book 1, Chapter 11 - Years of Discretion — 6:04
12. 12 - Book 2, Chapter 1 - The Hand That Beckoned — 17:22
13. 13 - Book 2, Chapter 2 - The Isles of St. Magdalen — 8:29
14. 14 - Book 2, Chapter 3 - Between the Surf and the Sand — 17:51
15. 15 - Book 2, Chapter 4 - Where the Devil Lived — 13:15
16. 16 - Book 2, Chapter 5 - Devilry — 14:52
17. 17 - Book 2, Chapter 6 - The Sea-Maid — 7:17
18. 18 - Book 2, Chapter 7 - The Grave Lady — 7:23
19. 19 - Book 2, Chapter 8 - How They Lived on the Cloud — 19:42
20. 20 - Book 2, Chapter 9 - The Sick and the Dead — 10:06
21. 21 - Book 2, Chapter 10 - A Light-Giving Word — 11:17
22. 22 - Book 2, Chapter 11 - The Lady's Husband — 9:27
23. 23 - Book 2, Chapter 12 - The Maiden Invented — 17:55
24. 24 - Book 2, Chapter 13 - White Birds\ — 11:11

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