Length5h 9m
About this audiobook
This is the story of Morning Glory’s turn of the century kenbutsu—her travels to America.
Guided by her uncle, a Harvard graduate, Morning Glory travels at a time when most Americans know little or nothing about Japan, aside from the popular tunes of The Mikado (1885) and The Geisha (1896).
Morning Glory is young, fanciful, and full of attitude. An aspiring poet, she writes grand poetry, and even a diary for a local squirrel. She worries about her inadequate grammar, her clothes, her ignorance of Longfellow, the clumsy American cutlery, and the awful smell of cheese.
This story was originally published in two installments in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Monthly Magazine in 1901, and was later republished as a book. It was the first English-language American novel published in the US by a Japanese writer.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★ 2.9 (105)
Includes Goodreads
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length5 hrs 9 mins
Narrated byLinda Barrans
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateSep 26, 2023
LanguageEnglish
WhistlerAnn Patchett10h 45m4.6 (4.6K)$29 · $0.00
Demon CopperheadBarbara Kingsolver21h 3m4.5 (949.4K)$46 · $0.00
To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee12h 18m4.5 (7.4M)$29 · $0.00
Remarkably Bright CreaturesShelby Van Pelt11h 17m4.4 (1.7M)$29 · $0.00
Cast in BloodMichelle Sagara16h 35m4.6 (607)$33 · $0.00
The Captain Blood Trilogy (Annotated)Rafael Sabatini29h 20m4.6 (1K)$3 · $0.00
Ship of the Line (Annotated)Cecil Louis Troughton Smith11h 13m4.6 (1K)$2 · $0.00
The George Orwell CollectionGeorge Orwell24h 46m4.5 (14.4K)$12 · $0.00
Time RegainedMarcel Proust15h 38m4.5 (9.2K)$2 · $0.00
Driving ForceElle James4h 58m4.6 (407)$20 · $0.00
When God Calls the HeartBrian Bird, Michelle Cox3h 24m4.6 (439)$10 · $0.00
Five Little IndiansMichelle Good10h 34m4.5 (64.5K)$29 · $0.00
Lolth's WarriorR. A. Salvatore13h 20m4.6 (2.4K)$33 · $0.00
The Things We Cannot SayKelly Rimmer13h 48m4.5 (359.1K)$33 · $0.00
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du BoisHonoree Fanonne Jeffers29h 49m4.5 (58K)$8 · $0.00
Going PostalTerry Pratchett11h 23m4.5 (189.9K)$29 · $0.00
Glen AffricKarine Giebel22h 51m4.5 (3.2K)$46 · $0.00
The Book Of NegroesLawrence Hill15h 45m4.5 (107.3K)$33 · $0.00
Anne of Green GablesL. M. Montgomery11h 1m4.5 (1.2M)$2.30 · $0.00
Lieutenant Hornblower (Annotated)C. S. Forester11h 41m4.5 (2.9K)$2 · $0.00
You may also like
An Autobiography of Anthony TrollopeAnthony Trollope10h 10m4.0 (1.5K)$2.30
Dr. Montessori's Own HandbookMaria Montessori2h 42m4.3 (1.3K)$10 · $0.00
A Boy's WillRobert Frost1h 50m3.9 (3.3K)$1 · $0.00
The Voyage Out (The Original 1915 Duckworth & Co., London Edition)Virginia Woolf15h 7m3.8 (18K)$2 · $0.00
How We ThinkJohn Dewey8h 52m4.0 (1.6K)$22 · $0.00
Biographia Literaria (Unabridged) (Annotated)Samuel Taylor Coleridge15h 53m3.9 (3.5K)$1.99 · $0.00
Jacob's roomVirginia Woolf6h 16m3.6 (19.2K)$4 · $0.00
Auguste RodinRainer Maria Rilke3h 9m4.2 (973)$13 · $0.00
Biographia Literaria (Annotated)Samuel Taylor Coleridge13h 15m3.8 (1K)$1.99 · $0.00
Biographia Literaria (Complete Edition)Samuel Taylor Coleridge15h 43m3.9 (4.1K)$2.99 · $0.00
The Harvard Classics: Complete 51-Volume CollectionBenjamin Franklin, Edmund Burke, Plato, Marcus Aurelius, William Shakespeare, Homer, Friedrich von Schiller, William Makepeace Thackeray, John Ruskin, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Alan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Thomas Hobbes, John Woolman, William Penn, Epictetus, Francis Bacon, John Milton, Thomas Browne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Burns, Saint Augustine, Thomas à Kempis, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny the Younger, Adam Smith, Charles Darwin, Plutarch, Virgil, Miguel de Cervantes, John Bunyan, Izaak Walton, Aesop, Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, John Dryden, Brinsley Sheridan, David Garrick, Oliver Goldsmith, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, George Gordon Byron, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Christopher Marlowe, Dante Alighieri, Alessandro Manzoni, Richard Henry Dana, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Molière, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Philip Sidney, Ben Jonson, Abraham Cowley, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Johnson, David Hume, Sydney Smith, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Charles Lamb, Thomas De Quincey, Thomas Babington Macaulay, James Russell Lowell, Michael Faraday, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Simon Newcomb, Archibald Geikie, Benvenuto Cellini, Michel de Montaigne, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Ernest Renan, Giuseppe Mazzini, Herodotus, Tacitus, Francis Drake, Philip Nichols, Francis Pretty, Walter Bigges, Edward Haies, Walter Raleigh, René Descartes, Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, William Henry Harrison, Niccolo Machiavelli, William Roper, Thomas More, Martin Luther, John Locke, George Berkeley, Hippocrates, Ambroise Paré, William Harvey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, Thomas Dekker, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, John Webster, Philip Massinger, Blaise Pascal, William A. Neilson986h 46m4.4 (2K)$1.99 · $0.00
The Unknown MasterpieceHonoré de Balzac2h 30m4.0 (7.5K)$2 · $0.00
Letters to a Young Poet (Annotated)Rainer Maria Rilke2h 45m4.3 (2.2K)$1 · $0.00
Twelve Dresses, One Star (A Bugville Jr. Story)R. Stanek7m$4 · $0.00
The Pianist. Conversations with Garrick OhlssonKamila Stępień-Kutera7h 30m$9.50 · $0.00
The Mark Twain Autobiography + 3 Biographies (Annotated)Mark Twain86h 21m$1.99 · $0.00
How to Design a Montessori-Inspired Nursery for Your BabyAurora Brooks1h 10m$3.50 · $0.00
Of Solids and SurdsSamuel R. Delany4h 4m4.3 (129)$15
From Cooing to Crawling- A Timeline of Baby MilestonesAurora Brooks56m$3.50 · $0.00
Marie Bashkirtseff: From Childhood to Girlhood, Diary of a Young ArtistMarie Bashkirtseff2h 56m3.6 (27)$1.99 · $0.00