The World’s Story Volume VII: Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The World’s Story Volume VII: Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland, credited to Eva March Tappan, 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 World’s Story Volume VII: Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland by Eva March Tappan. Read in English by Sonia; Jim Locke; Christina Close; Kristine Bekere; Foon; Joseph Barbaccia; alanmapstone; Tomas Peter; Sandra Schmit; Colleen McMahon; Greg Giordano; Monika M. C.; ToddHW; April6090; ChadH94; Kirstin De Falco; Philip Watson; Ruth P.; Nella; Scotty Smith; Rob Marland; Stoofy; Devorah Allen; Eva Davis; Nemo; TJ Burns; Aaron White; Frédéric Surget; rumpledpoetry This is the seventh volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature, poetry and pictures and offers a comprehensive presentation of the world's history, art and culture, from the early times till the beginning of the 20th century. Topics in Part VII include the stories from the Nibelungen saga of the Germans, masterpieces of the Dutch Painters and the famous apple-shooting episode from Schiller's drama William Tell. - Summary by Sonia Cast list for The shot of William Tell: Walter: Stoofy / William Tell: ToddHW / Friesshard: Foon / Leuth: Jim Locke / Sacristan: Aaron White / Rosselmann: TJ Burns / Furst: alanmapstone / Stauffacher: Nemo / Melchthal: Eva Davis / Peasants: Sandra Schmit / Women: Monika M.C. / Harras: Frédéric Surget / Gessler: Tomas Peter / Bertha: Devorah Allen / Rudenz: Philip Watson / Narrator: Sonia Cast list for Tell's escape: William Tell: Jim Locke / Fisherman: Tomas Peter / Narrator: Sonia

Recording facts

• Recording title: The World’s Story Volume VII: Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland
• Author credits: Eva March Tappan
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 110
• Listed recording duration: 17:12:23

Catalogue topics

• Goethe
• Schiller
• Switzerland
• Nibelungen
• Barbarossa
• germanics
• rembrandt
• alpine

Opening tracks: first 24 of 110

1. 001 - Thusnelda in the triumphal procession of Germanicus, by Karl Theodor von Piloty (born at Munich, October 1, 1826. Died there, July 21, 1886), painting frontispiece — 2:49
2. 002 - Germany Part I: In pagan times: Historical note — 1:35
3. 003 - How the early Germans lived, by Caius Cornelius Tacitus — 7:03
4. 004 - An appeal to Caesar (58 B.C.), by T. Rice Holmes — 23:00
5. 005 - Herman, who freed the Germans from Rome (9 A.D.), by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker — 5:55
6. 006 - Boniface and the oak of Thor (about 723), by the Right Rev. W. Pakenham Walsh — 9:20
7. 007 - Germany Part II: Emperors of mediaeval Germany: Historical note — 2:59
8. 008 - How Charlemagne overcame the Saxons, by Dr. William Zimmermann — 13:51
9. 009 - The Margrave Gero and the Vandals, by Theodor von Heyden (German artist, 1827), painting p. 36 — 1:33
10. 010 - The election of Frederick Barbarossa (the red-bearded) (1152), by Cyrus Townsend Brady — 14:43
11. 011 - Frederick of the Red Beard and the Pope (1177), from the old chronicles — 11:02
12. 012 - Frederick Barbarossa at the feet of the Pope, by Albert Maignan (France, 1844-1908), painting p. 48 — 2:14
13. 013 - Barbarossa, by Friedrich Rückert — 2:10
14. 014 - Germany Part III: Stories of the Middle Ages: Historical note — 1:40
15. 015 - How Siegfried won a bride for King Gunther, from the Nibelungenlied — 22:20
16. 016 - Bishop Hatto and his mouse tower (about 968), by Robert Southey — 5:04
17. 017 - The Lorelei, by Heinrich Heine — 1:38
18. 018 - The little Faust tower of Munich, by Frantz Trautmann — 23:15
19. 019 - Germany Part IV: Life in the fifteenth century: Historical note — 2:53
20. 020 - The great Hanseatic League, by Eva March Tappan — 9:05
21. 021 - The walled cities of Germany, by Sabine Baring-Gould, with the collaboration of Arthur Gilman — 8:35
22. 022 - German life in the fifteenth century, by Johannes Janssen — 14:11
23. 023 - The contest of the master-singers, by August Hagen — 23:26
24. 024 - John Gutenberg, inventor of printing (middle of the sixteenth century), by Eva March Tappan — 6:30

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