Princess Mary's Gift Book
Various
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
In 1914, Princess Mary, then 17 years of age, gave her name to this collection of short stories and essays from the most prominent authors of the time for the purpose of raising funds for the "Work For Women Fund". A few of the outstanding authors represented in this sparkling collection are J.M. Barrie with is essay on A Holiday in Bed; A. Conan Doyle; J.H. Fabre the naturalist with his well know description of The Ant-Lion; H. Ryder Haggard; Rudyard Kipling; Alfred Noyes ("A Spell for a Fairy"); Baroness Orczy (yes, that one); and Kate Douglas Wiggin. - Summary by Phil Chenevert (5 hr 21 min)
Chapters
A Holiday in Bed | 14:14 | Read by Greg Giordano |
The Spy | 17:36 | Read by Gabriel Glenn |
Charlie the Cox | 11:41 | Read by Pam Castille |
Canada's Word | 2:10 | Read by Pam Castille |
Bimbashi Joyce | 21:03 | Read by Lynne T |
The Ant-Lion | 14:38 | Read by Steve C |
An Angel of God | 18:46 | Read by Greg Giordano |
A Model Soldier | 34:25 | Read by Pam Castille |
The Land of Let's Pretend | 7:09 | Read by Pam Castille |
Magepa the Buck | 33:27 | Read by Lynne T |
True Spartan Hearts | 9:35 | Read by Linda Jenner |
Big Steamers | 2:14 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
A True Story From Camp | 4:14 | Read by Lynne T |
The Ebony Box | 44:20 | Read by Pam Castille |
A Spell for a Fairy | 5:27 | Read by Pam Castille |
Out of the Jaws of Death: A Scarlet Pimpernel Story | 13:54 | Read by ToddHW |
What Can A Little Chap Do? | 2:27 | Read by Greg Giordano |
Altogether Different | 14:44 | Read by Gabriel Glenn |
The Escape | 18:25 | Read by Gabriel Glenn |
Fleur-de-Lis | 31:26 | Read by Pam Castille |
Reviews
Something for all the family
Janelle
I wish I could have seen the original book; I'm sure it would have been lovely with all the illustrations. There's a great variety in the stories and poems in this volume. Little poems and stories for children as well as serious wartime tales for the adults. All the readers were pretty good, so many thanks to them.
peachesandpits
lovely stories very easy to listen to...