'Tilda Jane's Orphans: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

'Tilda Jane's Orphans, credited to Marshall Saunders, 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 'Tilda Jane's Orphans by Marshall Saunders. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. When the story of 'Tilda Jane appeared serially in The Youth's Companion in 1901, the original manuscript was very much condensed. When the time for book publication arrived nearly all the omitted matter was restored. However, some incidents were still left out, and they have formed the beginning of a new story written to please the many boys and girls who have expressed a wish to know something more of the fortunes of the orphan and her dogs. That the orphan's old friends will follow with interest, her often groping and stumbling, yet never-wearying steps along the path of uplift for human beings and dumb creatures, is the earnest hope of the author. (Marshall Saunders - from the Prefatory Note)

Recording facts

• Recording title: 'Tilda Jane's Orphans
• Author credits: Marshall Saunders
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 28
• Listed recording duration: 8:20:28

Catalogue topics

• dogs
• birds
• orphan
• horse
• girl
• 'tilda jane

Opening tracks: first 24 of 28

1. 00 - Prefatory Note — 2:02
2. 01 - Hank Has a Laughing Fit — 17:48
3. 02 - A Conflict of Wills — 8:21
4. 03 - What is the Matter with Grandpa? — 19:01
5. 04 - The Arrival of Milkweed — 17:09
6. 05 - 'Tilda Jane's Mysterious Errand — 13:39
7. 06 - A Call on the Lumber Merchant — 18:08
8. 07 - His Only Son — 17:11
9. 08 - Mild Forgiveness — 16:45
10. 09 - An Unexpected Request — 19:08
11. 10 - The Moneyed Pup — 14:39
12. 11 - More About the Pup — 14:21
13. 12 - Grandpa's Drive — 24:57
14. 13 - Little Housetop — 14:52
15. 14 - The Flight of a Wild Goose — 17:06
16. 15 - The Pursuit of the Goose — 15:37
17. 16 - A Tedious Waiting — 23:03
18. 17 - The Return of the Treasures — 23:09
19. 18 - Perletta's Pets — 28:16
20. 19 - Grandpa's Dream — 18:24
21. 20 - The Son of Muffles — 17:02
22. 21 - 'Tilda Jane Receives a Shock — 16:47
23. 22 - Cousin Oonah Riley — 16:19
24. 23 - Perletta Puzzles Her Friends — 25:29

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