The Blue Flower
Henry van Dyke
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
"Sometimes short stories are brought together like parcels in a basket. Sometimes they grow together like blossoms on a bush. Then, of course, they really belong to one another, because they have the same life in them. ...There is such a thought in this book. It is the idea of the search for inward happiness, which all men who are really alive are following, along what various paths, and with what different fortunes! Glimpses of this idea, traces of this search, I thought that I could see in certain tales that were in my mind,—tales of times old and new, of lands near and far away. So I tried to tell them, as best as I could, hoping that other men, being also seekers, might find some meaning in them" (Summary by from the preface) (5 hr 38 min)
Chapters
| 00 - PREFACE | 4:17 | Read by Geoff Blanchard |
| 01 - THE BLUE FLOWER | 6:49 | Read by Geoff Blanchard |
| 02 - THE SOURCE | 32:12 | Read by Maria Kasper |
| 03 - THE MILL | 38:48 | Read by Maria Kasper |
| 04 - SPY ROCK, Part 1 | 41:28 | Read by Marie Hoffman |
| 05 - SPY ROCK, Part 2 | 28:44 | Read by Marie Hoffman |
| 06 - WOOD-MAGIC | 21:38 | Read by Haili |
| 07 - THE OTHER WISE MAN, Part 1 | 36:17 | Read by Loveday |
| 08 - THE OTHER WISE MAN, Part 2 | 27:14 | Read by Loveday |
| 09 - A HANDFUL OF CLAY | 7:43 | Read by Tom Merritt |
| 10 - THE LOST WORD, Part 1 | 23:20 | Read by gloriousjob |
| 11 - THE LOST WORD, Part 2 | 25:59 | Read by gloriousjob |
| 12 - THE FIRST CHRISTMAS-TREE | 44:03 | Read by Lynne T |