Rock Crystal
Adalbert Stifter's Rock Crystal (1914) is an adventure fiction novel.
A free LibriVox audiobook (1 h 52 min) is available.
About Rock Crystal
On Christmas Eve, two children, a brother and sister, leave their grandmother's house in an Alpine village and get lost in the mountain snow. They become trapped among the rock crystals of the frozen glacier. This short and gripping novel, by 19th century Austrian master Adalbert Stifter, influenced Thomas Mann and others with its suspenseful, simple, myth-like story and majestic depictions of nature. Poet W.H. Auden called the work "a quiet and beautiful parable about the relation of people to places, of man to nature." (Introduction by Greg W.)
Free audiobook
Rock Crystal — LibriVox recording, 1 h 52 min in 6 sections.
Public-domain recording by volunteer readers. Listen online, download MP3s or stream from the Internet Archive.
Quick answers
Who wrote Rock Crystal?
Rock Crystal was written by Adalbert Stifter and first published in 1914.
What genre is Rock Crystal?
It is usually shelved as Adventure.
Is there a free audiobook of Rock Crystal?
Yes — LibriVox volunteers recorded it; the recording runs 1 h 52 min.
What books are similar to Rock Crystal?
Readers who like it often enjoy The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Valley of Fear and Five Children and It.
Books like Rock Crystal
- FREE🎧
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
- FREE🎧
The Valley of Fear
Arthur Conan Doyle
- FREE🎧
Five Children and It
Edith Nesbit
- 🎧
The Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan
- FREE🎧
A Princess of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs
- FREE
The Riddle of the Sands
Erskine Childers
- FREE
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
L. Frank Baum
- 🎧
The Story of the Treasure Seekers
Edith Nesbit