The Courtship of Miles Standish: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Courtship of Miles Standish by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 9 original MP3 tracks, 1:28:42 running time and a link to listen.
The Courtship of Miles Standish, credited to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 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 Courtship of Miles Standish by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Read by Leonard Wilson. During the late nineteenth century and until the middle of the twentieth, many elementary classrooms in America featured (along with a Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington) a black-and-white print of a group of New England pilgrims on their way to church, the men carrying their muskets. Every school child at that time was intimately acquainted with the story of the Mayflower and the Plymouth colony in Massachusetts. Among the historical figures, one of the best known was Captain Miles Standish, the military commander of the little “army,” which consisted of a bare handful of men, who repeatedly defeated many times their number of hostile Indians. The children also knew the friendly Indian Squanto and the young pilgrim gentleman John Alden and the lovely maiden Priscilla Mullins. In the middle grades practically all students used to read Longfellow’s long narrative poem The Courtship of Miles Standish, telling the story of these real people. The plot is initiated by Standish’s request that his friend, the better educated and more eloquent Alden, plead his case for him and persuade Priscilla to marry this rough middle-aged widower. What the captain did not know was that John Alden was also deeply in love with the same young girl. Presentday readers will be impressed that the delightful Miss Mullins seems to be a quite modern young lady, with a mind of her own. Many hundreds of Americans trace their ancestry to John and Priscilla, whose descendants also include Presidents John and John Quincy Adams and Longfellow himself. Those who are not familiar with their romance will find it a most pleasant tale. (Introduction by Leonard Wilson).
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Courtship of Miles Standish
- Author credits: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 9
- Listed recording duration: 1:28:42
Catalogue topics
- poetry
- Miles Standish
- Courtship
- Longfellow
- Mayflower
- Squanto
- Priscilla Mullins
- John Alden
Track guide
- Part 1 - Miles Standish — 8:04
- Part 2 - Love and Friendship — 8:36
- Part 3 - The Lover's Errand — 12:47
- Part 4 - John Alden — 11:56
- Part 5 - The Sailing of the Mayflower — 12:18
- Part 6 - Priscilla — 8:39
- Part 7 - The March of Miles Standish — 8:52
- Part 8 - The Spinning-Wheel — 8:56
- Part 9 - The Wedding-Day — 8:37
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