Winter Evening Tales: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Winter Evening Tales, credited to Amelia E. Barr, 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 Winter Evening Tales by Amelia E. Barr. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. This 1896 collection contains 17 short, Christian-oriented stories. “In these ‘Winter Evening Tales,’ Mrs. Barr has spread before her readers a feast that will afford the rarest enjoyment for many a leisure hour. There are few writers of the present day whose genius has such a luminous quality, and the spell of whose fancy carries us along so delightfully on its magic current. In these stories, the author has touched many phases of human nature. Some of the stories in the collection sparkle with the spirit of mirth; others give glimpses of the sadder side of life. Throughout all, there are found that broad sympathy and intense humanity that characterize every page that comes from her pen. Her men and women are creatures of real flesh and blood, not deftly-handled puppets; they move, act and speak spontaneously, with the full vigor of life and the strong purpose of persons who are participating in a real drama, and not a make-believe.” - Summary by Verla Viera and Preface

Recording facts

• Recording title: Winter Evening Tales
• Author credits: Amelia E. Barr
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 21
• Listed recording duration: 7:25:01

Catalogue topics

• short stories
• women authors
• christian fiction
• nineteenth century literature
• wholesome stories
• christian stories

Track guide

1. 01 - “Cash,” A Problem of Profit and Loss, Part I — 19:33
2. 02 - “Cash,” A Problem of Profit and Loss, Part II — 21:52
3. 03 - Franz Müller’s Wife — 23:22
4. 04 - The Voice at Midnight — 13:19
5. 05 - Six, and Half-a-Dozen — 11:11
6. 06 - The Story of David Morrison — 30:22
7. 07 - Tom Duffan’s Daughter — 25:54
8. 08 - The Harvest of the Wind, Chapter I — 22:29
9. 09 - The Harvest of the Wind, Chapter II — 35:58
10. 10 - The Seven Wise Men of Preston — 11:26
11. 11 - Margaret Sinclair’s Silent Money, Part 1 — 27:02
12. 12 - Margaret Sinclair’s Silent Money, Part 2 — 20:12
13. 13 - Just What He Deserved, Chapter I — 14:38
14. 14 - Just What He Deserved, Chapter II — 24:28
15. 15 - An Only Offer — 19:03
16. 16 - Two Fair Deceivers — 17:21
17. 17 - The Two Mr. Smiths — 26:31
18. 18 - The Story of Mary Neil — 6:58
19. 19 - The Heiress of Kurston Chase — 19:45
20. 20 - “Only This Once” — 19:24
21. 21 - Petralto’s Love Story — 34:13

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