In School and Out; The Conquest of Richard Grant: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

In School and Out; The Conquest of Richard Grant, credited to Oliver Optic, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of In School and Out; The Conquest of Richard Grant by William Taylor Adams. Read in English by Scarlett Martin. The second volume of the Woodville Stories contains the experience of Richard Grant, "in school and out." We are sorry to say that Richard had become a bad boy, and was in the habit of getting into the most abominable scrapes, some of which are detailed in the first chapters of this book. But he is not what is sometimes called a vicious boy, for he has many good qualities, which redeem him from absolute condemnation. There is something noble in his character, which is the germ of his ultimate salvation from the sins which so easily beset him. The third book in the Woodville series is Watch and Wait; The Young Fugitives. Summary by Book Preface.

Recording facts

• Recording title: In School and Out; The Conquest of Richard Grant
• Author credits: Oliver Optic
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 22
• Listed recording duration: 4:50:37

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• youth
• religious
• moral character

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 2:36
2. 01 - Richard Grant and Friend get into an awful Scrape. — 12:02
3. 02 - Richard jumps out of the Frying-pan into the Fire. — 13:12
4. 03 - Richard finds that no Chastening seemeth joyous. — 12:39
5. 04 - Richard makes a tremendous Sensation at Woodville. — 12:17
6. 05 - Richard is determined to be revenged. — 12:08
7. 06 - Richard gives another Illustration of Sleep-walking. — 12:51
8. 07 - Richard kindles a Fire. — 13:01
9. 08 - Richard beholds how great a Matter a little Fire kindleth. — 13:52
10. 09 - Richard goes to the Tunbrook Military Institute. — 13:25
11. 10 - Richard learns the meaning of Right About Face. — 12:49
12. 11 - Richard goes through the Drill, and has a set-to in the Grove. — 14:14
13. 12 - Richard does a ''Big Thing'' and takes the Consequences. — 14:06
14. 13 - Richard listens to a Homily on Fighting, and spends the Night in the Guard House. — 14:54
15. 14 - Richard does Guard Duty, and is captured by an Enemy. — 14:25
16. 15 - Richard finds himself in the Hands of the Regulators. — 14:20
17. 16 - Richard becomes First Sergeant of Company D. — 13:49
18. 17 - Richard gives the Tunbrookers a Lesson in Boating. — 15:20
19. 18 - Richard wins another Race, and Tunbrook is mutinous. — 12:29
20. 19 - Richard is determined, and some Allusion is made to ''Watermelons.'' — 15:17
21. 20 - Richard Visits Green Island, and the Regulators consider their Plans. — 15:06
22. 21 - Richard annihilates the Regulators, and the Story is concluded. — 15:45

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