Sir Nigel: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Sir Nigel, credited to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 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 Sir Nigel, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Read by Clive Catterall. By 1348 the House of Loring has fallen on hard times. Together, the Black Death and the greedy monks of Waverley have bled away all of the Loring wealth. Even the manor house will have to go to pay their debts. Then a chance encounter with the King of England provides Nigel, the last of the Lorings, with the chance to seek his fortune in the constant wars with France. But more importantly for Nigel it also means that he may be able to do the "three small deeds" that will show he is worthy to ask for the hand of the Lady Mary in marriage. Filled with chivalry, humour, and high romance, Sir Nigel is simply a rattling good yarn.(Summary by Clive Catterall)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Sir Nigel
• Author credits: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 28
• Listed recording duration: 12:07:17

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• Historical Fiction

Opening tracks: first 24 of 28

1. 00 - Introduction — 3:53
2. 01 - The House of Loring — 13:06
3. 02 - How the Devil Came to Waverley — 14:13
4. 03 - The Yellow Horse of Crooksbury — 33:36
5. 04 - How the Summoner Came to the Manor House of Tilford — 27:09
6. 05 - How Nigel Was Tried by the Abbot of Waverley — 31:55
7. 06 - In Which Lady Ermyntrude Opens the Iron Coffer — 20:28
8. 07 - How Nigel Went Marketing to Guildford — 29:42
9. 08 - How the King Hawked on Crooksbury Heath — 21:51
10. 09 - How Nigel Held the Bridge at Tilford — 17:29
11. 10 - How the King Greeted his Seneschal of Calais — 22:24
12. 11 - In the Hall of the Knight of Duplin — 25:45
13. 12 - How Nigel Fought the Twisted Man of Shalford — 29:51
14. 13 - How the Comrades Journeyed Down the Old, Old Road — 44:32
15. 14 - How Nigel Chased the Red Ferret — 45:09
16. 15 - How the Red Ferret Came to Cosford — 20:15
17. 16 - How the King's Court Feasted in Calais Castle — 21:53
18. 17 - The Spaniards on the Sea — 42:24
19. 18 - How Black Simon Claimed Forfeit from the King of Sark — 21:19
20. 19 - How a Squire of England Met a Squire of France — 39:02
21. 20 - How the English Attempted the Castle of La Brohiniere — 25:31
22. 21 - How the Second Messenger Went to Cosford — 32:26
23. 22 - How Robert of Beaumanoir Came to Ploermel — 17:59
24. 23 - How Thirty of Josselin Encountered Thirty of Ploermel — 30:27

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