The Wonderful Garden or The Three C.'s: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Wonderful Garden or The Three C.'s, credited to E. Nesbit, 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 Wonderful Garden or The Three C.'s (1911), by Edith Nesbit (1858–1924). Read by Ruth Golding Do you believe in magic? Caroline, Charles and Charlotte do, and nothing that happens during their summer holiday at their great uncle's house does anything to diminish that belief. There the Three C.'s find a wonderful garden and some very old books, resulting in escapades which do not necessarily please the grown-ups. E. Nesbit, as usual, transports us back to the hazy summer days of a well-to-do Edwardian childhood, liberally spiced with magic, humour and lessons learned. Published exactly 100 years ago, this is one of her least-known children's books, out of print for many years, and with no text available online at the time of recording. Yes, it's dated. Yes, it's politically incorrect. But it is delightful nonetheless. As Gore Vidal once wrote: "...though a reading of E. Nesbit is hardly going to change the pattern of a nation, there is some evidence that the child who reads her will never be quite the same again, and that is probably a good thing." (Introduction by Ruth Golding)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Wonderful Garden or The Three C.'s
• Author credits: E. Nesbit
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 23
• Listed recording duration: 8:39:47

Catalogue topics

• children
• fantasy
• adventure
• magic
• flowers
• language of flowers

Track guide

1. 01 - The Beginning — 16:32
2. 02 - The Manor House — 23:36
3. 03 - The Wonderful Garden — 20:21
4. 04 - In Thessalonians — 19:57
5. 05 - The Midnight Adventure — 21:05
6. 06 - Hunted — 18:23
7. 07 - Being Detectives — 28:00
8. 08 - The Heroine — 15:33
9. 09 - The Morning After — 25:09
10. 10 - Brewing the Spell — 28:45
11. 11 - The Rosicurians — 19:11
12. 12 - The Other Book — 23:07
13. 13 - The Rosy Cure — 18:20
14. 14 - The Mineral Woman — 26:27
15. 15 - Justice — 21:29
16. 16 - The Appeal to Caesar — 28:36
17. 17 - The Le-o-pard — 22:48
18. 18 - The Leopard's-Bane — 26:25
19. 19 - F. of H.D. — 29:06
20. 20 - The Waxen Man — 18:56
21. 21 - The Atonement of Rupert — 19:23
22. 22 - The Portrait — 21:44
23. 23 - The End — 27:06

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