The Odyssey for Boys and Girls: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Odyssey for Boys and Girls, credited to Alfred John Church, 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 Odyssey for Boys and Girls by Alfred John Church. Read in English by Ginny Blankenship. A retelling of the adventures of Ulysses, including his adventures both the Cyclops and Circe, as he journeys home to his home of Ithaca. The story then continues to include his quest to rejoin his wife and family of whom he has been separated from for twenty years. This is Homer's Odyssey for the younger set. (Summary by Ginny Blankenship)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Odyssey for Boys and Girls
• Author credits: Alfred John Church
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 23
• Listed recording duration: 4:01:13

Catalogue topics

• adventure
• odyssey
• ulysses
• circe
• cyclops

Track guide

1. 01 - The Cyclops — 15:19
2. 02 - Of the Home of the Winds and of Circe — 13:22
3. 03 - Of the Sirens and Other Wonders — 15:13
4. 04 - Of What Happened in Ithaca — 13:48
5. 05 - How Telemachus Went to Look for His Father — 11:51
6. 06 - How Telemachus Saw Nestor — 11:43
7. 07 - How Telemachus Came to Sparta — 7:37
8. 08 - Menelaus's Story — 8:35
9. 09 - How Ulysses Came to the Phaeacians — 13:21
10. 10 - Nausicaa — 10:23
11. 11 - Alcinous — 6:08
12. 12 - Ulysses Among the Phaeacians — 11:06
13. 13 - Ithaca — 8:29
14. 14 - Eumaeus — 12:53
15. 15 - Ulysses and His Son — 7:31
16. 16 - Of the Dog Argus and Other Things — 8:51
17. 17 - Of the Beggar Irus and Other Things — 12:41
18. 18 - How Ulysses Was Made Known — 13:08
19. 19 - The Trial of the Bow — 12:40
20. 20 - The Slaying of the Suitors — 5:09
21. 21 - At Last — 5:42
22. 22 - Of Laertes — 9:15
23. 23 - How There Was Peace Between Ulysses and his People — 6:28

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