Master of the Vineyard: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Master of the Vineyard, credited to Myrtle Reed, 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 Master of the Vineyard by Myrtle Reed. Read in English by Celine Major "Why don't you sell the vineyard?" she asked, though her heart sank at the mere suggestion. "Sell it? Why didn't the Ancient Mariner sell his albatross and take a nice little trip around the world on the proceeds? Mother would die of a broken heart if I mentioned it to her. The Marsh family have been the slaves of that vineyard since the first mistaken ancestor went into the grape business. We've fertilised it, pruned it, protected it, tied it up, sat up nights with it, fanned the insects away from it, hired people to pick the fruit and pack it, fed the people, entertained them, sent presents to their wives and children—we've done everything! And what have we had for it? Only a very moderate living, all the grapes we could eat, and a few bottles of musty old wine. "Mother, of course, has very little to do with it, and, to her, it has come to represent some sort of entailed possession that becomes more sacred every year. It's a family heirloom, like a title, or some very old and valuable piece of jewelry. Other people have family plate and family traditions, but we've got a vineyard, or, to speak more truthfully, it has us."

Recording facts

• Recording title: Master of the Vineyard
• Author credits: Myrtle Reed
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 8:09:13

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• romance
• 1910
• wine
• 2017
• reed
• vineyard

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 01 - The Hill of the Muses — 16:42
2. 02 - Brown Alpaca — 19:45
3. 03 - The Crystal Ball — 21:26
4. 04 - April's Sun — 20:31
5. 05 - The House of the Broken Heart — 19:44
6. 06 - More Stately Mansions — 18:47
7. 07 - A Letter and a Guest — 19:45
8. 08 - 'Whom God Hath Joined' — 22:08
9. 09 - A Spring Day — 19:10
10. 10 - A Little Brown Mouse — 21:28
11. 11 - The Hour of the Turning Night — 21:58
12. 12 - Asking - Not Answer — 20:05
13. 13 - The Stain of the Rose — 18:53
14. 14 - The Light Before a Shrine — 19:39
15. 15 - The Inlaid Box — 19:57
16. 16 - One Little Hour — 20:10
17. 17 - The Last Tryst — 19:21
18. 18 - Starbreak — 18:04
19. 19 - If Love Were All — 19:22
20. 20 - 'The Lady Traveller' — 19:34
21. 21 - The Weaving of the Tapestry — 17:27
22. 22 - Each to His Own Work — 19:13
23. 23 - Betrothal — 19:04
24. 24 - The Minister's Call — 19:17

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