The Story of Gösta Berling: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Story of Gösta Berling, credited to Selma Lagerlöf, 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 Story of Gösta Berling, by Selma Lagerlöf, translated by Pauline Bancroft Flach. Read by Lars Rolander The Story of Gösta Berling" was published in Sweden in 1894 and immediately brought its author into prominence. The tales are founded on actual occurrences and depict the life in the province of Värmland at the beginning of the 19th Century century. Värmland is a lonely tract in the southern part of Sweden, and has retained many of its old customs, while mining is the principal industry of its sparse population. It consists of great stretches of forest, sloping down to long, narrow lakes, connected by rivers. Miss Lagerlöf has grown up in the midst of the wild legends of her country, and, deeply imbued with their spirit, interprets them with a living force all her own. (Summary from the foreword by Pauline Bancroft Flach)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Story of Gösta Berling
• Author credits: Selma Lagerlöf
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 38
• Listed recording duration: 15:50:00

Catalogue topics

• Romance
• Sweden
• nobel prize

Opening tracks: first 24 of 38

1. 01 - Introduction I - The Priest — 21:15
2. 02 - Introduction Part II - The Beggar — 30:46
3. 03 - Part I Chapter I - The Landscape — 10:32
4. 04 - Part I Chapter II - Christmas Eve — 31:45
5. 05 - Part I Chapter III - Christmas Day — 28:07
6. 06 - Part I Chapter IV - Gösta Berling, Poet — 30:44
7. 07 - Part I Chapter V - La Cachucha — 10:25
8. 08 - Part I Chapter VI - The Ball at Ekeby — 45:32
9. 09 - Part I Chapter VII - The Old Vehicles — 31:06
10. 10 - Part I Chapter VIII - The Great Bear in Gurlitta Cliff — 34:37
11. 11 - Part I Chapter IX - The Auction at Björne — 1:06:50
12. 12 - Part I Chapter X - The Young Countess — 57:08
13. 13 - Part I Chapter XI - Ghost Stories — 31:30
14. 14 - Part I Chapter XII - Ebba Dohna's Story — 45:44
15. 15 - Part I Chapter XIII - Mamselle Marie — 22:41
16. 16 - Part II Chapter I - Cousin Christopher — 13:25
17. 17 - Part II Chapter II - The Paths of Life — 30:16
18. 18 - Part II Chapter II - Penitence — 24:50
19. 19 - Part II Chapter IV - The Iron from Ekeby — 22:39
20. 20 - Part II Chapter V - Lilliecrona's Home — 13:49
21. 21 - Part II Chapter VI - The Witch of Dovre — 11:53
22. 22 - Part II Chapter VII - Midsummer — 9:40
23. 23 - Part II Chapter VIII - Madame Musica — 13:23
24. 24 - Part II Chapter IX - The Broby Clergyman — 13:13

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