Come Rack! Come Rope!: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Come Rack! Come Rope!, credited to Robert Hugh Benson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of COME RACK! COME ROPE!, by ROBERT HUGH BENSON. Come Rack! Come Rope! is a historical novel by the English priest and writer Robert Hugh Benson, a convert to Catholicism from Anglicanism. Set in Derbyshire at the time of the Elizabethan persecution of Catholics, when being or harboring a priest was considered treason and was punishable with death, it tells the story of two young lovers who give up their chance of happiness together, choosing instead to face imprisonment and martyrdom, so that "God's will" may be done. The book was written nearly nine years after Benson's reception into the Catholic Church. The inspiration for the story comes from Dom Bede Camm's account of the recusant Fitzherbert family in Forgotten Shrines (1910), and from Benson's own visit in 1911 to Padley, home of the Fitzherberts, and scene of part of the novel, in order to preach at the annual pilgrimage there. The title of the book is taken from a letter of Saint Edmund Campion in which, after torture, he assured Catholics that he had revealed "no things of secret, nor would he, come rack, come rope." Most of the characters in the book are historical people; only the hero and heroine, their parents, and some minor characters are fictional. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Come Rack! Come Rope!
• Author credits: Robert Hugh Benson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 37
• Listed recording duration: 14:21:24

Catalogue topics

• English Martryrs
• Catholic
• Anglicanism
• Elizabeth I
• Mary Queen of Scots
• romance
• fiction

Opening tracks: first 24 of 37

1. 00 - Preface — 3:46
2. 01 - Part 1, Chapter 1 — 46:59
3. 02 - Part 1, Chapter 2 — 28:23
4. 03 - Part 1, Chapter 3 — 27:09
5. 04 - Part 1, Chapter 4 — 28:33
6. 05 - Part 1, Chapter 5 — 22:14
7. 06 - Part 1, Chapter 6 — 22:50
8. 07 - Part 1, Chapter 7 — 29:24
9. 08 - Part 1, Chapter 8 — 24:51
10. 09 - Part 1, Chapter 9 — 16:10
11. 10 - Part 2, Chapter 1 — 16:03
12. 11 - Part 2, Chapter 2 — 25:05
13. 12 - Part 2, Chapter 3 — 24:01
14. 13 - Part 2, Chapter 4 — 23:05
15. 14 - Part 2, Chapter 5 — 21:45
16. 15 - Part 2, Chapter 6 — 19:46
17. 16 - Part 2, Chapter 7 — 21:30
18. 17 - Part 2, Chapter 8 — 35:55
19. 18 - Part 2, Chapter 9 — 19:28
20. 19 - Part 2, Chapter 10 — 22:35
21. 20 - Part 3, Chapter 1 — 28:14
22. 21 - Part 3, Chapter 2 — 26:49
23. 22 - Part 3, Chapter 3 — 20:34
24. 23 - Part 3, Chapter 4 — 28:59

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