Youth and the Bright Medusa, and The Troll Garden: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Youth and the Bright Medusa, and The Troll Garden, credited to Willa Cather, 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 Youth, Medusa, and The Troll Garden, by Willa Cather. Read by David Wales Youth And The Bright Medusa comprises eight short stories published in 1920. Four of them (The Sculptor’s Funeral; A Death In The Desert; A Wagner Matinee; Paul’s Case) are re-worked from an earlier collection, The Troll Garden, published in 1905. This Librivox recording contains in addition the three stories (Flavia And Her Artists; The Garden Lodge; The Marriage Of Phaedra) from that earlier work omitted in the later book. In other words, all the stories in both books are recorded here. (Summary by David Wales)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Youth and the Bright Medusa, and The Troll Garden
• Author credits: Willa Cather
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 10:08:05

Catalogue topics

• short stories
• westerns
• Troll Garden
• New York
• society

Track guide

1. 01 Coming, Aphrodite! Parts 1-4 — 51:25
2. 02 Coming, Aphrodite! Part 5 — 32:50
3. 03 Coming, Aphrodite! Parts 6-7 — 20:48
4. 04 The Diamond Mine Parts 1-2 — 40:38
5. 05 The Diamond Mine Part 3 — 48:11
6. 06 The Diamond Mine Part 4 — 8:33
7. 07 A Gold Slipper — 44:22
8. 08 Scandal — 47:54
9. 09 Paul's Case — 56:53
10. 10 A Wagner Matinee — 19:54
11. 11 The Sculptor's Funeral — 36:31
12. 12 A Death In The Desert — 46:42
13. 13 Flavia And Her Artists Part 1 — 35:47
14. 14 Flavia And Her Artists Part 2 — 36:36
15. 15 The Garden Lodge — 33:06
16. 16 The Marriage Of Phaedra — 47:55

Listen to this recording

Open the complete recording and player on Internet Archive. The player includes the full track list and available download formats.

Source and rights

This is a record from LibriVox's official Internet Archive collection, with a public-domain licence recorded in its metadata. LibriVox's policy includes its catalogue summaries as well as its recordings. Its public-domain assessment follows United States law; copyright status can differ elsewhere. The summary and track facts are reproduced and reformatted from that record. Dates attached to the archive upload are not treated as original book publication dates.