Darnley: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Darnley, credited to George Payne Rainsford James, 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 Darnley by George Payne Rainsford James. Read in English by Lynne T [A stranger rides across the Kentish countryside when his attention is called to a cottage where violence is being done to an elderly couple. The knight, for such he appears to be, rushes to their aid. Soon after, the strange and prophetic Sir Cesar appears on the scene and foretells of danger ahead. We follow this knight as he encounters an evil landowner; the good and faithful Longpole, son of the elderly couple; the beneficent Duke of Buckingham--or is he a traitor?; and the coquettish Lady Katrine. He is reunited with his kindly but naif old tutor and a childhood companion, now grown into the beautiful Lady Constance. How will each help or hinder him in obtaining his goal of an audience with King Henry VIII and gaining back his ancestral home for his disgraced father and himself? A tale spanning the courts of Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France, the climax comes at the famous meeting between the two monarchs on 'the Field of the Cloth of Gold'.( Lynne Thompson)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Darnley
• Author credits: George Payne Rainsford James
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 41
• Listed recording duration: 18:33:12

Catalogue topics

• London
• Knights
• henry viii
• monasteries
• canterbury
• insurrection
• lords
• ladies

Opening tracks: first 24 of 41

1. 01 - I — 11:10
2. 02 - II — 28:58
3. 03 - III — 21:54
4. 04 - IV — 37:37
5. 05 - V — 37:43
6. 06 - VI — 30:27
7. 07 - VII — 34:46
8. 08 - VIII — 7:58
9. 09 - IX — 28:57
10. 10 - X — 32:43
11. 11 - XI — 32:43
12. 12 - XII — 35:47
13. 13 - XIII — 14:11
14. 14 - XIV — 32:21
15. 15 - XV — 15:47
16. 16 - XVI — 34:15
17. 17 - XVII — 15:17
18. 18 - XVIII — 15:14
19. 19 - XIX — 28:09
20. 20 - XX — 35:14
21. 21 - XXI — 24:33
22. 22 - XXII — 19:06
23. 23 - XXIII — 42:45
24. 24 - XXIV — 33:49

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