The Children of the New Forest: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Children of the New Forest, credited to Frederick Marryat, 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 The Children of the New Forest, by Frederick Marryat. The children of Colonel Beverley, a Cavalier officer killed at the Battle of Naseby are believed to have died in the flames when their house, Arnwood, is burned by Roundhead soldiers. However, they escape and are raised by Joseph Armitage, a gamekeeper in his cottage in the New Forest. The story describes how the children adapt from an aristocratic lifestyle to that of simple cottagers. The children are concealed as the grandchildren of Armitage. Eventually after Armitage's death, Edward Beverley leaves and works as a secretary for the sympathetic Puritan placed in charge of the Royal land in the New Forest. He then joins the army of the future King Charles II and after the Royalist defeat at the Battle of Worcester, he escapes to France and lives in exile until the Restoration. His brother and siblings continue to live in the New Forest and they are reunited on the King's return. (Summary from Wikipedia) Read by Librivox volunteers.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Children of the New Forest
• Author credits: Frederick Marryat
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 27
• Listed recording duration: 10:42:04

Catalogue topics

• children
• new forest
• marryat
• audio book

Opening tracks: first 24 of 27

1. Chapter 01 — 15:55
2. Chapter 02 — 20:53
3. Chapter 03 — 18:58
4. Chapter 04 — 19:48
5. Chapter 05 — 22:15
6. Chapter 06 — 17:47
7. Chapter 07 — 15:13
8. Chapter 08 — 17:28
9. Chapter 09 — 34:14
10. Chapter 10 — 20:12
11. Chapter 11 — 37:28
12. Chapter 12 — 27:15
13. Chapter 13 — 24:40
14. Chapter 14 — 25:55
15. Chapter 15 — 34:55
16. Chapter 16 — 27:10
17. Chapter 17 — 28:08
18. Chapter 18 — 27:29
19. Chapter 19 — 16:41
20. Chapter 20 — 37:11
21. Chapter 21 — 33:45
22. Chapter 22 — 17:48
23. Chapter 23 — 24:44
24. Chapter 24 — 18:25

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