Little Johannes


Read by Phil Benson

In this allegory of childhood and youth, a series of increasingly sinister mentors - Windekind, Wistik, Pluizer and Dr. Cypher - guide the adventurous Little Johannes through fantastical worlds in search of the elusive book that explains why everything is as it is. Frederik van Eeden's best known work, De Kleine Johannes first appeared in the literary journal De Nieuwe Gids, published as an alternative to the more conservative De Gids to promote the new Dutch literature of the 1880s. At the end of the book, van Eeden promises to tell more of Johannes. This came in the form of two sequels published alongside Little Johannes in a volume published in English as The Quest in 1911. (Summary by Phil Benson) (4 hr 59 min)

Chapters

00 - Introduction by Andrew Lang 16:09 Read by Phil Benson
01 - Chapter 1 9:26 Read by Phil Benson
02 - Chapter 2 33:26 Read by Phil Benson
03 - Chapter 3 22:58 Read by Phil Benson
04 - Chapter 4 31:49 Read by Phil Benson
05 - Chapter 5 16:05 Read by Phil Benson
06 - Chapter 6 10:47 Read by Phil Benson
07 - Chapter 7 10:50 Read by Phil Benson
08 - Chapter 8 21:19 Read by Phil Benson
09 - Chapter 9 25:43 Read by Phil Benson
10 - Chapter 10 18:31 Read by Phil Benson
11 - Chapter 11 30:06 Read by Phil Benson
12 - Chapter 12 31:19 Read by Phil Benson
13 - Chapter 13 17:21 Read by Phil Benson
14 - Chapter 14 12:27 Read by Phil Benson