The Orange Fairy Book: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Orange 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 Orange Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang. Read by LibriVox volunteers. Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources, who had collected them originally (with the notable exception of Madame d'Aulnoy), made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign-language sources, giving many of these tales their first appearance in English. As acknowledged in the prefaces, although Lang himself made most of the selections, his wife and other translators did a large portion of the translating and telling of the actual stories. Many of the books were illustrated by Henry J. Ford, Lancelot Speed, and G. P. Jacomb Hood also contributed some illustrations. (Summary by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Orange Fairy Book
• Author credits: Andrew Lang
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 34
• Listed recording duration: 9:40:44

Catalogue topics

• children
• fairy tales
• andrew lang

Opening tracks: first 24 of 34

1. 00 - Preface — 5:51
2. 01 - The Story of the Hero Makoma — 16:05
3. 02 - The Magic Mirror — 12:52
4. 03 - Story of the King Who Would See Paradise — 6:25
5. 04 - How Isuro the Rabbit Tricked Gudu — 12:35
6. 05 - Ian, the Soldier's Son — 29:00
7. 06 - The Fox and the Wolf — 11:28
8. 07 - How Ian Direach Got the Blue Falcon — 20:21
9. 08 - The Ugly Duckling — 24:23
10. 09 - The Two Caskets — 21:52
11. 10 - The Goldsmith's Fortune — 6:52
12. 11 - The Enchanted Wreath — 20:16
13. 12 - The Foolish Weaver — 4:35
14. 13 - The Clever Cat — 22:17
15. 14 - Story of Manus, The — 12:31
16. 15 - Pinkel the Theif — 21:12
17. 16 - The Adventures of a Jackal — 9:11
18. 17 - The Adventures of the Jackal's Eldest Son — 7:45
19. 18 - The Adventures of the Younger Son of the Jackal — 5:55
20. 19 - The Three Treasures of the Giants — 19:43
21. 20 - The Rover of the Plain — 20:12
22. 21 - The White Doe — 44:00
23. 22 - The Girl-Fish — 18:57
24. 23 - The Owl and the Eagle — 10:18

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