The Strange Story Book
Leonora Blanche Lang
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A collection of stories compiled by the widow of the renowned children's short-story collector, Andrew Lang. She describes this as the final installment of his series of fairy stories and includes some of those stories he had not included in other collections. In the preface, she pays tribute to her husband, saying he liked old things more than new, he loved all beasts' because they were beasts', fairies, cricket and dancing. He longed to visit far away places, but hated to travel. But most of all he befriended children wherever he went and they shared stories with him. Only his own children mocked him. - Summary by Lynne Thompson (9 hr 54 min)
Chapters
Preface by Mrs. Andrew Lang | 12:11 | Read by Kalyn Heminger |
The Drowned Buccaneer | 36:18 | Read by Aaron M. Lebowitz |
The Perplexity of Zadig | 6:49 | Read by Sheri Elizabeth |
The Return of the Dead Wife | 8:08 | Read by aishah143 |
Young Amazon Snell | 22:40 | Read by NoelBadrian |
The Good Sir James | 10:37 | Read by Ulrike Denis |
Rip van Winkle | 26:05 | Read by Diane Neigebauer |
The Wonderful Basket | 10:43 | Read by NoelBadrian |
The Escape of the Galley-Slaves | 10:26 | Read by Kalynda |
The Beaver and the Porcupine | 10:31 | Read by EmmaS |
An Old-World Ghost | 8:22 | Read by Lynne T |
The Gentleman Highwayman | 17:03 | Read by drwebber |
The Vision of the Pope | 3:55 | Read by Christine Lehman |
Growing-up-like-one-who-has-a-grandmother | 18:16 | Read by Aaron M. Lebowitz |
The Handless Brigade | 8:47 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
The Son of the Wolf Chief | 11:10 | Read by Susan Bell |
Blind Jack of Knaresborough | 28:11 | Read by Susan Bell |
Blind Jack Again | 16:16 | Read by Susan Bell |
The Story of Djun | 15:06 | Read by Matthew Datcher |
What Became of Owen Parfitt? | 11:09 | Read by Teresa McPeat |
Blackskin | 15:27 | Read by JoeBlu |
The Pets of Aurore Dupin | 15:36 | Read by JoeBlu |
The Trials of M. Deschartres | 17:08 | Read by Ulrike Denis |
Aurore at Play | 36:02 | Read by Deon Gines |
How Aurore Learned to Ride | 13:41 | Read by Ulrike Denis |
Land-Otter the Indian | 7:42 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
The Disinheriting of a Son | 10:10 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
The Siege of Rhodes | 21:42 | Read by DebK |
The Princess of Babylon | 39:37 | Read by Kathrine Engan |
The Adventures of Fire-Drill's Son | 16:08 | Read by Aaron M. Lebowitz |
The Strange Story of Elizabeth Canning | 23:45 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
Mrs. Veal's Ghost | 18:43 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
The Chief's Daughter | 13:36 | Read by Omar H. Eldahan |
The Boyhood of a Painter | 19:07 | Read by 3Dad |
The Adventures of a Spanish Nun | 33:46 | Read by Christine Lehman |