Veronica: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Veronica, credited to Johanna Spyri, 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 Veronica, by Johanna Spyri. Read by Daryl Wor. Published in 1886, this novel encompasses a small community wherein Veronica, having lost her own mother, is “adopted” by a neighbour, Gertrude, who has a son of her own. The son, Dietrich, is learning how to become a saddler as his father before him. Their life is filled with hard work, but also some contentment. From the mother they now share, and two other matronly neighbours, Dietrich and Veronica learn valuable lessons about life. As the years pass, Dietrich and Veronica encounter trouble due to the mischief of two peers, and Dietrich more so as he is often tempted to frequent, along with others, the new tavern nearby. (Summary by Daryl Wor)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Veronica
• Author credits: Johanna Spyri
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 11
• Listed recording duration: 2:52:21

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• teen-young-adult
• adoption
• village life
• loss and redemption

Track guide

1. Chapter 01 - A Visit To The Doctor — 14:45
2. Chapter 02 - With Fresh Courage — 8:58
3. Chapter 03 - Nine Years Later — 9:05
4. Chapter 04 - All At Home — 14:00
5. Chapter 05 - Upon Unsafe Paths — 19:32
6. Chapter 06 - Lame Sabina Gives Good Advice — 14:22
7. Chapter 07 - A Thunder Clap — 12:55
8. Chapter 08 - Each One According To His Kind — 22:09
9. Chapter 09 - Mother Gertrude Gives Good Advice — 14:00
10. Chapter 10 - Man Proposes, But God Disposes — 20:29
11. Chapter 11 - The Motto Proves True — 22:07

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