Pemaquid: a Story of Old Times in New England: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Pemaquid: a Story of Old Times in New England, credited to Elizabeth Prentiss, 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 Pemaquid: a Story of Old Times in New England by Elizabeth Prentiss. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. The structure of this book is altogether unique, and has a charm of its own. It is not a continuous narrative, but the characters are made to introduce themselves, and to portray the persons and incidents of the story from their several points of view, in language and coloring peculiar to themselves. Together they form a thoroughly individualized group, presenting strong contrasts, such as a Puritan village might easily have furnished seventy-five or a hundred years ago. The aim of the book, if aim there be, is to exhibit the religious type of the period at once in its strength and in its tenderness, and to show the power which a well-disciplined and chastened spirit has to subdue at last a most worldly and selfish nature. This is embodied in Squire Woodford. But the character which particularly attracts attention is Keziah Millet, the good-hearted, outspoken, energetic housekeeper, battling her way through manifold temptations, and trying "to live consistent"; provoking one to laughter and to tears at the same moment by her droll speeches, "saying her say out" often in "words of unmeant bitterness," and yet unstinted in her devotion to the welfare of others — altogether a rare creature, something like Mrs. Poyser in her originality. We shall not forget her soon. The story abounds in that delicate humor which plays through all of Mrs. Prentiss's writings, and is thoroughly religious in tone. We regard it as one of her best books. - Summary by The New-York Evangelist: Thursday, December 13, 1877

Recording facts

• Recording title: Pemaquid: a Story of Old Times in New England
• Author credits: Elizabeth Prentiss
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 32
• Listed recording duration: 9:18:11

Catalogue topics

• bible
• religious fiction
• New England
• christian fiction
• Mother
• pilgrim's progress
• puritan
• deacon

Opening tracks: first 24 of 32

1. 01 - "The wicked flee when no man pursueth." — 17:05
2. 02 - "O what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive." — 18:40
3. 03 - "The mind is its own place, an in itself, can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." — 17:52
4. 04 - "Look on this picture, and on this." — 19:51
5. 05 - "Oh, what a thing is man; how far from power, from settled peace and rest! He is some twenty several men, at least, every several hour." — 12:33
6. 06 - "He shall give His angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways." " Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings." — 20:39
7. 07 - "The way of the wicked He turneth upside down." — 18:05
8. 08 - Then steal away, give little warning. Choose thine own time, say not 'Good-night,' but in some brighter clime bid me 'Good-morning.'" — 16:47
9. 09 - "As poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things." " The Pilgrims they lived in a large upper chamber, facing the sun rising. The name of the chamber was Peace." — 19:18
10. 10 - "There is no peace, saith my God, for the wicked." — 18:01
11. 11 - "Ah, if you knew what peace there is in an accepted sorrow." — 20:39
12. 12 - "O what a sight were man, if his attire did alter with his mind; And if, like a dolphin's skin, his clothes combined to alter with his mind." — 18:48
13. 13 - "He that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind, and tossed." — 16:24
14. 14 - "The superfluous spirits of youth are like the coverings of some insects, which afford them food and support in their transition." — 15:02
15. 15 - "One dupe is as impossible as one twin." — 16:19
16. 16 - "It's all fuss, fuss, and stew, stew till you get somewhere, and then it's fuss, fuss, and stew, stew to get back again; jump here and scratch your eyes out, and jump there and scratch 'em in again — that 'are life." — 14:13
17. 17 - "With devotion's visage, and pious action, we do sugar o'er the devil himself." "Be like the bird, that, halting in her flight awhile on boughs too slight. Feels them give way beneath her and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings." — 14:01
18. 18 - "For they have sown the wind, and shall reap the whirlwind." — 15:16
19. 19 - "Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee until seven times; but until seventy times seven." — 15:21
20. 20 - . — 16:05
21. 21 - "Behold, all things are become new." — 13:57
22. 22 - "I can call spirits from the vasty deep." "And will they come when you do call for them?" Sometimes they do. — 13:45
23. 23 - . — 34:43
24. 24 - "Death is another life. We bow our heads at going out, we think, and enter straight another golden chamber of the King's Larger than this we leave, and lovelier." — 14:45

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