Through the Magic Door: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Through the Magic Door, credited to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 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 Through the Magic Door by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Read in English by Librivox volunteers. I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, nor how lowly the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge back into the soothing company of the great dead, and then you are through the magic portal into that fair land whither worry and vexation can follow you no more. You have left all that is vulgar and all that is sordid behind you. There stand your noble, silent comrades, waiting in their ranks. Pass your eye down their files. Choose your man. And then you have but to hold up your hand to him and away you go together into dreamland. Surely there would be something eerie about a line of books were it not that familiarity has deadened our sense of it. Each is a mummified soul embalmed in cere-cloth and natron of leather and printer's ink. Each cover of a true book enfolds the concentrated essence of a man. The personalities of the writers have faded into the thinnest shadows, as their bodies into impalpable dust, yet here are their very spirits at your command (Chapter I). In this volume, Arthur Conan Doyle invites us into his library and discusses his favourite literature with the listener.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Through the Magic Door
• Author credits: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 4:49:26

Catalogue topics

• adventure
• dickens
• Doyle
• scott
• johnson
• boswell

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter I — 21:16
2. 02 - Chapter II — 27:16
3. 03 - Chapter III — 20:36
4. 04 - Chapter IV — 25:35
5. 05 - Chapter V — 23:37
6. 06 - Chapter VI — 22:54
7. 07 - Chapter VII — 31:47
8. 08 - Chapter VIII — 34:35
9. 09 - Chapter IX — 19:21
10. 10 - Chapter X — 17:16
11. 11 - Chapter XI — 18:08
12. 12 - Chapter XII — 27:05

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