# Castles in the Air

An audiobook by Baroness Emma Orczy, read by LibriVox volunteers (7 h 44 min, English).

Baroness Emma Orczy (full name: Emma ("Emmuska") Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orczi) (September 23, 1865 – November 12, 1947) was a British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian noble origin. She was most notable for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel. Castles in the Air, a short novel or perhaps more like a collection of short stories with memories of a French rogue in the early 19th century Paris, was published in 1921 and about it I quote from the foreword: "In very truth my good friend Ratichon is an unblushing liar, thief, a forger--anything you will; his vanity is past belief, his scruples are non-existent. How he escaped a convict settlement it is difficult to imagine, and hard to realize that he died--presumably some years after the event recorded in the last chapter of his autobiography--a respected member of the community, honoured by that same society which should have raised a punitive hand against him." (Summary by Wikipedia, Lars Rolander and Emma Orczy)

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## Chapters

0. Foreword (5:35): https://archive.org/download/castles_in_the_air_lr_librivox/castlesinair_00_orczy_64kb.mp3
1. Chapter I - A Roland for his Oliver Pt 1 (27:50): https://archive.org/download/castles_in_the_air_lr_librivox/castlesinair_01_orczy_64kb.mp3
2. Chapter I - A Roland for his Oliver Pt 2 (36:00): https://archive.org/download/castles_in_the_air_lr_librivox/castlesinair_02_orczy_64kb.mp3
3. Chapter II - A Fool's Paradise Pt 1 (26:23): https://archive.org/download/castles_in_the_air_lr_librivox/castlesinair_03_orczy_64kb.mp3
4. Chapter II - A Fool's Paradise Pt 2 (22:30): https://archive.org/download/castles_in_the_air_lr_librivox/castlesinair_04_orczy_64kb.mp3
5. Chapter III - On the Brink Pt 1 (32:45): https://archive.org/download/castles_in_the_air_lr_librivox/castlesinair_05_orczy_64kb.mp3
6. Chapter III - On the Brink Pt 2 (45:13): https://archive.org/download/castles_in_the_air_lr_librivox/castlesinair_06_orczy_64kb.mp3
7. Chapter IV - Carissimo Pt 1 (28:03): https://archive.org/download/castles_in_the_air_lr_librivox/castlesinair_07_orczy_64kb.mp3
8. Chapter IV - Carissimo Pt 2 (27:20): https://archive.org/download/castles_in_the_air_lr_librivox/castlesinair_08_orczy_64kb.mp3
9. Chapter IV - Carissimo Pt 3 (15:50): https://archive.org/download/castles_in_the_air_lr_librivox/castlesinair_09_orczy_64kb.mp3
10. Chapter V - The Toys Pt 1 (34:30): https://archive.org/download/castles_in_the_air_lr_librivox/castlesinair_10_orczy_64kb.mp3
11. Chapter V - The Toys Pt 2 (43:53): https://archive.org/download/castles_in_the_air_lr_librivox/castlesinair_11_orczy_64kb.mp3
12. Chapter VI - Honour among ----- Pt 1 (30:27): https://archive.org/download/castles_in_the_air_lr_librivox/castlesinair_12_orczy_64kb.mp3
13. Chapter VI - Honour among ----- Pt 2 (24:53): https://archive.org/download/castles_in_the_air_lr_librivox/castlesinair_13_orczy_64kb.mp3
14. Chapter VII - An Over-sensitive Heart Pt 1 (25:50): https://archive.org/download/castles_in_the_air_lr_librivox/castlesinair_14_orczy_64kb.mp3
15. Chapter VII - An Over-sensitive Heart Pt 2 (37:26): https://archive.org/download/castles_in_the_air_lr_librivox/castlesinair_15_orczy_64kb.mp3