The Treasure: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Treasure by Lagerlöf, Selma: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 10 original MP3 tracks, 2:41:18 running time and a link to listen.
The Treasure, credited to Lagerlöf, Selma, 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 Treasure, by Selma Lagerlöf. Read by Lars Rolander. Selma Lagerlöf was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Prize in Literature in 1909. She died in Vaermland in 1940. The Treasure (Herr Arnes penningar) is a fairly short Novel, both a Drama and a Ghost Story. Published in 1904 and the English translation in 1923. The story is set in Bohuslaen on the West coast of Sweden in the middle of the 16th Century. Herr Arne, the old Parson in Solberga and all his household are brutally murdered, and his great Treasure stolen. The only survivor is Elsalill, the orphaned foster daughter. On her lies the burden to find out the murderers. She wants revenge, but falls in love with one of the murderers, who she must betray. Another important figure in the story is Torarin an old Fish hawker, who takes in Elsalill in his house after the murders, and Torarin’s dog, Grim, and also Elsalill’s dead foster sister. (Summary by Lars Rolander)
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Treasure
- Author credits: Lagerlöf, Selma
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 10
- Listed recording duration: 2:41:18
Catalogue topics
- fiction
- horror/ghost stories
- tragedy
- romance
Track guide
- 01 - Chapter I - At Solberga Parsonage — 25:35
- 02 - Chapter II - On the Quays — 10:30
- 03 - Chapter III - The Messenger — 14:54
- 04 - Chapter IV - In the Moonlight — 13:09
- 05 - Chapter V - Haunted — 18:22
- 06 - Chapter VI - In the Town Cerllars — 28:29
- 07 - Chapter VII - Unrest — 11:00
- 08 - Chapter VIII - Sir Archie's Flight — 19:29
- 09 - Chapter IX - Over the Ice — 3:39
- 10 - Chapter X - The Roar of the Waves — 16:11
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