The Peterkin Papers: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Peterkin Papers, credited to Lucretia P. Hale, 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 Peterkin Papers, by Lucretia P. Hale. Read by Entada. The Peterkins were a lovable but comically inept family that possess ingenuity, logic, resourcefulness, and energy--but not common sense. The general formula is that the family tries to solve some problem in an appealingly roundabout way, fails, and is eventually rescued by "the wise old lady from Philadelphia" who always cuts the Gordian knot with some effective but prosaic solution. The charm of the story is not in the plot, but in the telling, with the building up of layers of complication, and the affectionate fun poked at the not-quite-cartoonish characters. The "wise old lady's" solution is usually obvious to the reader, or even the young listener, from the start. (From Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Peterkin Papers
• Author credits: Lucretia P. Hale
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 4:24:07

Catalogue topics

• hale
• children
• humor

Track guide

1. Chapter 00-01 - Preface/The Lady Who Put Salt in Her Coffee — 13:55
2. Chapter 02-03-04 - About Elizabeth Eliza's Piano/The Peterkins Try to Become Wise/Mrs. Peterkin Wishes To Go To Drive — 12:42
3. Chapter 05-06 - The Peterkins at Home/Why the Peterkins Had a Late Dinner — 9:05
4. Chapter 07-08 - The Peterkin's Summer Journey/The Peterkins Snowed Up — 17:24
5. Chapter 09-10 - The Peterkins Decide to Keep a Cow / The Peterkins' Christmas-Tree — 19:27
6. Chapter 11-12 - The Peterkins' Tea Party / The Peterkins Too Late For the Exhibition — 21:53
7. Chapter 13-14 13 The Peterkins Celebrate the — 31:05
8. Chapter 15-16 The Peterkins' Charades / The Peterkins are Obliged to Move — 28:02
9. Chapter 17-18 The Peterkins Decide to Learn the Languages / Modern Improvements at the Peterkins — 30:21
10. Chapter 19-20 Agamemnon's Career / The Educational Breakfast — 38:36
11. Chapter 21 - The Peterkins at the Carnival of Authors in Boston — 23:54
12. Chapter 22 - The Peterkins at the Farm — 17:52

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