Lore of Proserpine: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Lore of Proserpine, credited to Maurice Henry Hewlett, 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 Lore of Proserpine by Maurice Henry Hewlett. Read in English by Jim Locke; Chris A. Hawkins; Amy Gramour If a thing is not sensibly true it may be morally so. If it is not phenomenally true it may be so substantially. And it is possible that one may see substance in the idiom, so to speak, of the senses. That, I take it, is how the Greeks saw thunder-storms and other huge convulsions; that is how they saw meadow, grove and stream—in terms of their own fair humanity. They saw such natural phenomena as shadows of spiritual conflict or of spiritual calm, and within the appearance apprehended the truth. So it may be that I have done. Some such may be the explanation of all fairy experience. Let it be so. It is a fact, I believe, that there is nothing revealed in this book which will not bear a spiritual, and a moral, interpretation; and I venture to say of some of it that the moral implications involved are exceedingly momentous, and timely too. I need not refer to such matters any further. If they don't speak for themselves they will get no help from a preface. - Summary by Maurice Hewlett

Recording facts

• Recording title: Lore of Proserpine
• Author credits: Maurice Henry Hewlett
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 6:10:40

Catalogue topics

• nature
• greek mythology
• fairy
• supernatura
• english folklore
• magical thinking

Track guide

1. 00 - PREFACE — 5:16
2. 01 - THE WINDOWS — 21:18
3. 02 - A BOY IN THE WOOD — 20:05
4. 03 - HARKNESS'S FANCY — 32:38
5. 04 - THE GODS IN THE SCHOOLHOUSE — 25:47
6. 05 - THE SOUL AT THE WINDOW — 30:47
7. 06 - QUIDNUNC-Part 1 — 32:44
8. 07 - QUIDNUNC-Part 2 — 10:45
9. 08 - THE SECRET COMMONWEALTH — 16:42
10. 09 - BECKWITH'S CASE -Part 1 — 25:37
11. 10 - BECKWITH'S CASE -Part 2 — 18:27
12. 11 - THE FAIRY WIFE –Part 1 — 18:14
13. 12 - THE FAIRY WIFE –Part 2 — 28:26
14. 13 - THE FAIRY WIFE –Part 3 — 22:43
15. 14 - OREADS — 34:02
16. 15 - A SUMMARY CHAPTER — 27:09

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