The Princess Passes: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Princess Passes, credited to C.N. & A.M. Williamson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Princess Passes by C.N. & A.M. Williamson, Read by Grant Hurlock An American heiress nicknamed the Manitou Princess (after her daddy's richest silver mine) is devastated to find that her fiancé only loves her money, so she does what anyone might do: she bolts for Europe. Though professing hatred of all men, she soon falls in with a just-jilted English lord, aptly named Monty Lane, who is attempting to walk off a broken heart of his own. The Princess Passes presents the ups and downs of their alpine relationship through the unpenetrating eyes of Lord Lane. Co-author Alice Livingston, of Poughkeepsie, New York, mentions in her memoirs that she sailed for Europe after a boyfriend tried to shoot her. In London she met literary editor Charles Williamson and began writing for the story magazines of media mogul Lord Northcliffe. At one point she found herself scribbling six serials simultaneously, on the income from which she and Williamson married. She later spun some of her husband's detailed descriptive notes made during their motor-trips abroad into a string of bestselling novels involving automobiling, then a novelty. The central romantic action of The Princess Passes recalls comic situations of Shakespeare's cross-dressing heroines and is bookended by automobile-themed sequences as the narrator and friends (hero & heroine of the Williamsons' first novel, The Lightning Conductor) motor south through the magnificent, peaceful mountain passes of pre-World War I Europe. (Summary by Grant Hurlock)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Princess Passes
• Author credits: C.N. & A.M. Williamson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 31
• Listed recording duration: 11:36:31

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• romance
• princess
• williamson

Opening tracks: first 24 of 31

1. 01 - Woman Disposes — 20:30
2. 02 - Mercedes to the Rescue — 35:30
3. 03 - My Lesson — 24:54
4. 04 - Pots, Kettles, and Other Things — 25:18
5. 05 - In Search of a Mule — 13:49
6. 06 - The Wings of the Wind — 33:48
7. 07 - At Last! — 18:54
8. 08 - The Making of a Mystery — 15:27
9. 09 - The Brat — 30:36
10. 10 - The Scraping of Acquaintance — 20:53
11. 11 - A Shadow of Night — 19:48
12. 12 - The Princess — 18:23
13. 13 - Afternoon Calls — 27:06
14. 14 - The Path of the Moon — 34:11
15. 15 - Enter the Contessa — 17:27
16. 16 - A Man from the Dark — 32:34
17. 17 - A Little Game of Flirtation — 20:05
18. 18 - Rank Tyranny — 15:04
19. 19 - The Little Rift Within the Lute — 21:16
20. 20 - The Great Paolo — 14:51
21. 21 - The Challenge — 16:22
22. 22 - An American Custom — 9:46
23. 23 - There Is No Such Girl — 26:06
24. 24 - The Revenge of the Mountain — 41:26

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