Wings and the Child: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Wings and the Child, credited to E. (Edith) Nesbit, 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 Wings and the Child, by E. (Edith) Nesbit. Read by Cori Samuel. "When this book first came to my mind it came as a history and theory of the building of Magic Cities on tables, with bricks and toys and little things such as a child may find and use. But as I kept the thought by me it grew and changed, as thoughts will do, until at last it took shape as an attempt to contribute something, however small and unworthy, to the science of building a magic city in the soul of a child, a city built of all things pure and fine and beautiful." -- E. Nesbit "This lovely book describes the practicalities of building cities (or forts, secret bases and fairytale palaces) out of household odds-and-ends. It also goes much further to speak of the importance of developing a child's imagination and other aspects of Education beyond simple instruction. Nesbit may not have realised how multicultural her own Britain was, let alone ours now, or that the wider world might be interested in this book, so please forgive some rather dated phrasing in places." -- Cori Samuel

Recording facts

• Recording title: Wings and the Child
• Author credits: E. (Edith) Nesbit
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 3:53:34

Catalogue topics

• advice
• instruction
• children

Track guide

1. 01 - Part 1, Chapter 1 - Of Understanding — 10:58
2. 02 - Part 1, Chapter 2 - New Ways — 10:40
3. 03 - Part 1, Chapter 3 - Playthings — 8:43
4. 04 - Part 1, Chapter 4 - Imagination — 8:26
5. 05 - Part 1, Chapter 5 - Of Taking Root — 10:57
6. 06 - Part 1, Chapter 6 - Beauty and Knowledge — 16:24
7. 07 - Part 1, Chapter 7 - Of Building and Other Matters — 13:52
8. 08 - Part 1, Chapter 8 - The Moral Code — 19:36
9. 09 - Part 1, Chapter 9 - Praise and Punishment — 15:33
10. 10 - Part 1, Chapter 10 - The One Thing Needful — 12:23
11. 11 - Part 2, Chapter 1 - Romance in Games — 14:27
12. 12 - Part 2, Chapter 2 - Building Cities — 15:12
13. 13 - Part 2, Chapter 3 - Bricks -- and Other Things — 15:17
14. 14 - Part 2, Chapter 4 - The Magic City — 13:46
15. 15 - Part 2, Chapter 5 - Materials — 10:52
16. 16 - Part 2, Chapter 6 - Collections — 12:02
17. 17 - Part 2, Chapter 7 - The Poor Child's City — 14:04
18. 18 - Part 2, Chapter 8 - The End — 10:35

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