The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies, credited to John Buchan, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by John Buchan. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers Celebrated Scottish author John Buchan, creator of the Richard Hannay series of thrillers (including The Thirty-Nine Steps and Greenmantle) brings light this wonderfully diverse collection of short stories and poetry showcasing Buchan's skill at both satire and the weird. This book was described in a review by The Athenaeum upon its release as showing "a marked leaning towards the mysterious and bizarre" and is bursting with "considerable imagination. Join us for a jaunt into the fantastical and otherworldly realm of John Buchan's short fiction! (Summary by Ben Tucker)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
• Author credits: John Buchan
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 23
• Listed recording duration: 7:59:13

Catalogue topics

• satire
• poetry
• fantasy
• weird
• Scottish
• mysterious

Track guide

1. 01 - From the Pentlands looking North and South — 6:54
2. 02 - I. The Company of the Marjolaine Chapter I — 26:04
3. 03 - I. The Company of the Marjolaine Chapter II - III — 37:07
4. 04 - Avignon 1759 — 2:22
5. 05 - II. A Lucid Interval Chapter I - II — 27:34
6. 06 - II. A Lucid Interval Chapter III - V — 31:39
7. 07 - The Shorter Catechism (revised version) — 2:27
8. 08 - III. The Lemnian — 37:57
9. 09 - Atta's Song — 3:46
10. 10 - IV. Space — 37:20
11. 11 - Stocks and Stones — 3:30
12. 12 - V. Streams of Water in the South — 39:06
13. 13 - The Gipsy's Song to the lady Cassilis — 2:35
14. 14 - VI. The Grove of Ashtaroth — 52:26
15. 15 - Wood Magic — 3:01
16. 16 - VII. The Riding of Ninemileburn — 25:27
17. 17 - Plain Folk — 6:55
18. 18 - VIII. The Kings of Orion Part 1 — 23:58
19. 19 - VIII. The Kings of Orion Part 2 — 25:32
20. 20 - Babylon — 4:58
21. 21 - IX. The Green Glen — 48:32
22. 22 - The Wise Years — 6:42
23. 23 - X. The Rime of True Thomas — 23:21

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