Undine: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Undine, credited to Friedrich de La Motte-Fouque, 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 Undine by Friedrich de La Motte-Fouqué. Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA. Undine is a novel by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué concerning Undine, a water spirit who marries a Knight named Huldebrand in order to gain a soul. It is an early German romance, which has been translated into English and other languages. The novel served as inspiration for two operas in the romantic style by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann and Albert Lortzing, respectively, and two ballets: the nineteenth century Ondine and the twentieth century Undine. An edition of the book was illustrated by Arthur Rackham. In The Fantastic Imagination, George MacDonald writes, "Were I asked, what is a fairytale? I should reply, Read Undine: that is a fairytale ... of all fairytales I know, I think Undine the most beautiful." (Summary from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Undine
• Author credits: Friedrich de La Motte-Fouque
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 19
• Listed recording duration: 3:08:08

Catalogue topics

• undine

Track guide

1. 01 - Dedication, How The Knight Came To The Fisherman — 13:41
2. 02 - In What Way Undine Had Come to the Fisherman — 11:27
3. 03 - How They Found Undine Again — 8:05
4. 04 - Of That Which the Knight Encountered in the Wood — 12:26
5. 05 - How the Knight Lived on the Little Promontory — 9:33
6. 06 - Of A Nuptial Ceremony — 11:19
7. 07 - What Further Happened on the Evening of the Wedding — 6:23
8. 08 - The Day After the Wedding — 11:41
9. 09 - How the Knight Took His Young Wife with Him — 9:26
10. 10 - How They Lived in the City — 7:56
11. 11 - The Anniversary of Bertalda's Name-Day — 11:00
12. 12 - How They Departed from the Imperial City — 7:54
13. 13 - How They Lived at Castle Ringstetten — 14:07
14. 14 - How Bertalda Returned Home with the Knight — 12:51
15. 15 - The Journey to Vienna — 11:34
16. 16 - How It Fared Further with Huldbrand — 8:14
17. 17 - The Knight's Dream — 5:50
18. 18 - How the Knight Huldbrand is Married — 9:21
19. 19 - How the Knight Huldbrand was Buried — 5:30

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