The Desirable Alien at Home in Germany

Ford Madox Ford (1873 - 1939) and Violet Hunt (1862 - 1942)

A travel journal of a year the author spent in Germany. With a preface and two additional chapters by her partner, the novelist Ford Madox Ford (here using the surname Hueffer). - Summary by barbara2

Genre(s): Travel & Geography

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Preface by FMF Barbara Baker
00:11:22
Play 01 Ch 1: Introduction: How one becomes an alien Barbara Baker
00:32:55
Play 02 Ch 2: Harem skirts, storks and some social amenities Barbara Baker
00:25:15
Play 03 Ch 3: Sleepy hollow Barbara Baker
00:30:16
Play 04 Ch 4: Utopia Barbara Baker
00:13:33
Play 05 Ch 5: Pax Germanica: servants, fairy tales and tailors Barbara Baker
00:26:25
Play 06 Ch 6a: Beer gardens v. bear gardens Barbara Baker
00:23:09
Play 07 Ch 6b: Beer gardens v. bear gardens cont. Barbara Baker
00:22:21
Play 08 Ch 7: Princes and prescriptions Barbara Baker
00:34:45
Play 09 Ch 8: Blue pates and Schoppen Barbara Baker
00:38:33
Play 10 Ch 9: Chests and costumes Barbara Baker
00:35:05
Play 11 Ch 10: Waiters and policemen Barbara Baker
00:20:43
Play 12 Ch 11: A Landgräfin and her confessor Barbara Baker
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Play 13 Ch 12: Lions and lace curtains Barbara Baker
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Play 14 Ch 13: Grand dukes and gipsies Barbara Baker
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Play 15 Ch 14: Great danes, geese, mice and schoolmasters Barbara Baker
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Play 16 Ch 15: "Drizzling" and officers Barbara Baker
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Play 17 Ch 16: How it feels to be members of subject races Barbara Baker
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Play 18 Ch 17a: Queens discrowned Barbara Baker
00:38:11
Play 19 Ch 17b: Queens discrowned cont. Barbara Baker
00:25:23
Play 20 Ch 18: Bones, babies and anabaptists Barbara Baker
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Play 21 Ch 19: Celle Barbara Baker
00:23:45
Play 22 Ch 20a: Trier Barbara Baker
00:24:00
Play 23 Ch 20b: Trier cont. Barbara Baker
00:26:59
Play 24 Ch 21a: Take us little foxes Barbara Baker
00:27:23
Play 25 Ch 21b: Take us little foxes cont. Barbara Baker
00:30:24
Play 26 Ch 22: Envoi Barbara Baker
00:14:17