The Blue Flower

Henry van Dyke (1852 - 1933)

"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)

Genre(s): Single Author Collections

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 00 - PREFACE Geoff Blanchard
00:04:17
Play 01 01 - THE BLUE FLOWER Geoff Blanchard
00:06:49
Play 02 02 - THE SOURCE Maria Kasper
00:32:12
Play 03 03 - THE MILL Maria Kasper
00:38:48
Play 04 04 - SPY ROCK, Part 1 Marie Hoffman
00:41:28
Play 05 05 - SPY ROCK, Part 2 Marie Hoffman
00:28:44
Play 06 06 - WOOD-MAGIC Haili
00:21:38
Play 07 07 - THE OTHER WISE MAN, Part 1 Loveday
00:36:17
Play 08 08 - THE OTHER WISE MAN, Part 2 Loveday
00:27:14
Play 09 09 - A HANDFUL OF CLAY Tom Merritt
00:07:43
Play 10 10 - THE LOST WORD, Part 1 gloriousjob
00:23:20
Play 11 11 - THE LOST WORD, Part 2 gloriousjob
00:25:59
Play 12 12 - THE FIRST CHRISTMAS-TREE Lynne T
00:44:03