Soap Bubble Stories

  • 1892 first published
  • 🎧 5 h 04 min free audiobook

Soap Bubble Stories is an 1892 folklore and fairy tales novel by Fanny Barry.

A free LibriVox audiobook (5 h 04 min) is available.

About Soap Bubble Stories

Have you ever watched a soap bubble drifting up on the air, sparkling and lovely? These lovely stories for children are of many lengths and varied styles but all beautifully crafted, just like the soap bubbles we blow and enjoy watching our children blow. Unlike soap bubbles however, these stories can be enjoyed over and over again by children of all ages. The style is indeed a bit old, but fairy tales should be kind of timeless, shouldn't they? "All the afternoon the children, pipe in hand, with soap suds before them, had been blowing airy bubbles that caught the gleams of a hundred flying rainbows—but now in the fading daylight, the pipes were put aside, and they threw themselves down on the fur rug, and looked with thoughtful eyes into the caverns of the fire. "What can we do now?" they cried, "Won't you make us some bubbles?" And someone sitting in the shadow, who had watched and admired their handiwork, whipped up some white froth in a fairy basin, and taking a pipe, she blew them some bubbles. Not so beautiful as the children's own, with their pure reflections of the light and sunshine—but the best she could fashion with the materials she had at hand; for the only soap she could find was Imagination, and her pipe was a humble black pen." - Summary by phil chenevert and the author
Description from LibriVox

Free audiobook

Soap Bubble Stories — LibriVox recording, 5 h 04 min in 18 sections.

Public-domain recording by volunteer readers. Listen online, download MP3s or stream from the Internet Archive.

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Quick answers

Who wrote Soap Bubble Stories?

Soap Bubble Stories was written by Fanny Barry and first published in 1892.

What genre is Soap Bubble Stories?

It is usually shelved as Fairy Tales & Folklore.

Is there a free audiobook of Soap Bubble Stories?

Yes — LibriVox volunteers recorded it; the recording runs 5 h 04 min.

What books are similar to Soap Bubble Stories?

Readers who like it often enjoy Dracula, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass.

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