True Stories of Wonderful Deeds: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

True Stories of Wonderful Deeds, credited to Anonymous, 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 TRUE STORIES OF WONDERFUL DEEDS. 37 short pieces perfect for newer recorders. These one page Stories of (mostly) Wonderful Deeds were written for Little Folk to teach them about famous incidents in their history. Bonnie Prince Charlie, Nelson and Hardy, Bruce and the Spider, David Livingston, Canute, Sir Philip Sydney, and Elizabeth and Raleigh are just some of the well known people and incidents covered in short stories. (Summary by Phil Chenevert)

Recording facts

• Recording title: True Stories of Wonderful Deeds
• Author credits: Anonymous
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 37
• Listed recording duration: 1:32:46

Catalogue topics

• children
• stories
• history
• short

Opening tracks: first 24 of 37

1. 01 - The Royal Oak — 3:30
2. 02 - Bonnie Prince Charlie — 1:58
3. 03 - Nelson and Hardy — 2:05
4. 04 - Watt and the Kettle — 2:07
5. 05 - Queen Victoria and her Soldiers — 2:05
6. 06 - The Relief of Lucknow — 2:05
7. 07 - Grace Darling — 2:02
8. 08 - David Livingstone — 2:10
9. 09 - The Battle of Waterloo — 2:04
10. 10 - The Charge of the Light Brigade — 2:26
11. 11 - The Coronation of King Edward VII — 2:19
12. 12 - War — 1:17
13. 13 - A Boy's Heroic Deeds — 6:01
14. 14 - A Cat's Extraordinary Leap — 2:13
15. 15 - A Brave Queen, Boadacea — 3:21
16. 16 - King Alfred and the Cakes — 1:58
17. 17 - Not Angles, but Angels — 2:26
18. 18 - Hereward the Wake — 2:09
19. 19 - Canute — 2:37
20. 20 - The Brave Men of Calais — 3:02
21. 21 - Wat Tyler — 3:10
22. 22 - Bruce and the Spider — 2:36
23. 23 - Richard and Blondel — 2:17
24. 24 - The White Ship — 2:06

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