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Nobody's Boy

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One day, French mason Jerome Barberin finds an abandoned baby boy. As the boy is wearing fine clothes, Barberin hopes that he is the son of rich parents who will reclaim him soon and offer a reward to Barberin for taking care of him. He therefore brings the boy home to his wife, and gives him the name Remi.


'However, no rich parents ever turn up to reclaim Remi. Instead, the family falls on hard times and Barberin wants to get rid of the boy. When Remi is eight years old, Barberin sees his chance in the travelling artist Signor Vitalis, who is travelling through France with his three dogs and a monkey. Vitalis offers to take care of Remi, and they travel on together. While Vitalis is a kind master and teaches Remi lots of useful skills, the two also suffer poverty, and Remi still lacks knowledge of his true heritage. Summary by Carolin, with help from Wikipedia. (9 hr 22 min)

Chapters

My Village Home

11:58

Read by Elli

My Adopted Father

12:50

Read by Elli

Signor Vitalis' Company

17:12

Read by Elli

The Maternal House

10:45

Read by Elli

En Route

7:33

Read by Elli

My Début

14:36

Read by Elli

Child and Animal Learning

7:03

Read by Elli

One Who Had Known a King

9:35

Read by Elli

Arrested

14:28

Read by Elli

Homeless

30:23

Read by Elli

Another Boy's Mother

12:37

Read by Elli

The Master's Consent

9:34

Read by Elli

Weary Dreary Days

26:07

Read by LT

The Death of Pretty-Heart

23:15

Read by Siobhan McAlpin

Faithful Friends

9:26

Read by Loraine Flegal

The Padrone

25:36

Read by Loraine Flegal

Poor Vitalis

18:03

Read by Mayah

New Friends

21:41

Read by Shasta

Disaster

33:03

Read by Shasta

Mattia

37:09

Read by Shasta

Meeting Old Friends

16:16

Read by Shasta

Imprisoned In a Mine

30:24

Read by Foon

Once More upon the Way

15:30

Read by Shasta

Friendship that Is True

33:27

Read by Campbell Schelp

Mother, Brothers and Sisters

15:08

Read by Bhavya

Bitter Disappointment

13:34

Read by Foon

A Distressing Discovery

24:11

Read by Campbell Schelp

A Mysterious Stranger

7:22

Read by Loraine Flegal

In Prison

14:11

Read by Bhavya

Escape

10:54

Read by Kathleen Moore

Hunting for the Swan

8:32

Read by Kathleen Moore

Finding A Real Mother

13:05

Read by Kathleen Moore

The Dream Come True

7:28

Read by Kathleen Moore

Bewertungen

ellene

(1 Sterne)

Maybe I should read it? Is that a helpful suggestion when a member offers well intentioned feedback to an organization purporting to provide narrations of public domain books? If I wanted to read a book would it make sense to come to LibriVox? Elli sounds lovely but she should not be narrating books in English. For her to be told otherwise is unkind to her and unfortunate to listeners. If you take the time and resources to create an audiobook why do it if the final product turns people off and drives them away? The service is free but that shouldn’t mean you get what you pay for. LibriVox is doing a good thing but it means nothing to anybody if a performance standard is not set and followed. There are countless books that are so bad that they should be heavily edited, reread or tossed. On the other hand, the great majority of readers do a good job and deserve our thanks.

(0,5 Sterne)

I have to agree about the reader. Ellie has a pleasant voice but I can't understand her at all.

(0,5 Sterne)

Wow! What an awful reading! Who can understand this? It makes my bones itch listening to her read, I keep wanting to help her sound out the words correctly.

@ellene and lynx

(5 Sterne)

So, why don't you read it then? There is an accent, yes but it definitely is understandable and the voice is indeed pleasant :) Btw., there are readers without accent, too.