With Fire and Sword: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

With Fire and Sword, credited to Henryk Sienkiewicz, 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 With Fire and Sword by Henryk Sienkiewicz. Read in English by David Leeson; Piotr Nater; KHand In 1647, Poland is a land facing complete destruction with fire and sword. It may come from without, as the Tartar hordes swarm over the steppes, turning cities to ash and the Poles to slaves. It may come from within the country’s bounds, as the traitor Hmyelnitski leads the Cossacks in a devastating revolt. Or it may come simply because the nation’s leaders and nobility have become selfish, lazy, and complacent, and are ill-equipped to face the horrors coming their way. If Poland is to survive, it will depend on the heroes who rise in her time of need. Yeremi Vishnovyetski, the warrior-prince who alone can lead his people to victory … if they are wise enough to accept his leadership. The diminutive soldier Michael Volodiyovski, ever unlucky at love, but never equaled as a swordsman. Longin Podbipyenta, the Lithuanian giant whose sacred vow to remain unmarried until he performs an impossible feat in battle is complicated when he falls madly in love. Pan Zagloba, Poland’s Falstaff, whose thirst for ale and penchant for self-preservation are exceeded only by his loyalty to his friends. But in the end, Poland’s fate will rest on the shoulders of the knight Jan Skshetuski, who must choose between the safety of his beloved Helena and his allegiance to prince and country. With Fire and Sword is the first novel of Sienkiewicz’s epic “Trilogy”, but is a stand-alone story in its own right. (Introduction by D. Leeson)

Recording facts

• Recording title: With Fire and Sword
• Author credits: Henryk Sienkiewicz
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 66
• Listed recording duration: 29:53:37

Catalogue topics

• war
• poland

Opening tracks: first 24 of 66

1. 01 - Book I, Chapter 1 — 27:10
2. 02 - Book I, Chapter 2 — 33:37
3. 03 - Book I, Chapter 3 — 41:04
4. 04 - Book I, Chapter 4 — 46:05
5. 05 - Book I, Chapter 5 — 41:37
6. 06 - Book I, Chapter 6 — 16:15
7. 07 - Book I, Chapter 7 — 12:20
8. 08 - Book I, Chapter 8 — 19:29
9. 09 - Book I, Chapter 9 — 22:46
10. 10 - Book I, Chapter 10 — 14:34
11. 11 - Book I, Chapter 11 — 38:23
12. 12 - Book I, Chapter 12 — 16:58
13. 13 - Book I, Chapter 13 — 12:17
14. 14 - Book I, Chapter 14 — 26:55
15. 15 - Book I, Chapter 15 — 47:22
16. 16 - Book I, Chapter 16 — 39:44
17. 17 - Book II, Chapter 1 — 30:34
18. 18 - Book II, Chapter 2 — 28:13
19. 19 - Book II, Chapter 3 — 21:59
20. 20 - Book II, Chapter 4 — 46:25
21. 21 - Book II, Chapter 5 — 27:28
22. 22 - Book II, Chapter 6 — 19:57
23. 23 - Book II, Chapter 7 — 19:06
24. 24 - Book II, Chapter 8 — 22:34

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