Coniston Tales: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Coniston Tales, credited to William Gershom Collingwood, 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 Coniston Tales by William Gershom Collingwood. Read in English by Phil Benson A selection of poems and short prose pieces grounded in the landscape, history and legends of Coniston in the English Lake District. W. G. Collingwood gave up a promising academic career as a young Oxford graduate to become John Ruskin's personal secretary, living at first in his home, Brantwood, at Coniston. In the spirit of self-sufficiency that typified their community, Collingwood first published these pieces in 'Nothing Much', a family magazine edited by his young children and circulated to friends by private subscription. - Summary by Phil Benson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Coniston Tales
• Author credits: William Gershom Collingwood
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 1:42:50

Catalogue topics

• Legend
• Lancashire
• Lake District

Track guide

1. 01 - The Apology — 1:53
2. 02 - The Cairn on the Moor — 11:29
3. 03 - The Great Circle — 5:59
4. 04 - Of the Mines in the Mountains — 18:20
5. 05 - The Three Godmothers — 2:57
6. 06 - A Miracle of St. Cuthbert — 13:10
7. 07 - The Bow in the Cloud — 1:36
8. 08 - The Story of Thurstan at the Thwaite — 20:21
9. 09 - The Ballad of Young Beaumont — 7:36
10. 10 - The Hermit of Monk Coniston — 11:32
11. 11 - The Leaguer of Carlisle — 4:17
12. 12 - Epilogue — 3:39

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