The Garden God: A Tale of Two Boys: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Garden God: A Tale of Two Boys by Forrest Reid: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 13 original MP3 tracks, 2:47:46 running time and a link to listen.
The Garden God: A Tale of Two Boys, credited to Forrest Reid, 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 Garden God: A Tale of Two Boys by Forrest Reid. Read in English by Chuck Williamson The Garden God: A Tale of Two Boys is Forrest Reid’s tender, bracingly tragic reflection on adolescence, pantheism, Platonism, and homoerotic desire. A classic of “Uranian” literature, it tells the story of Graham Iddesleigh, a fifteen year old boy whose early childhood is spent in cloistered seclusion. He idles his time roaming his family’s idyllic country estate, fantasizing about an imagined friendship with an ancient Greek god. But all this changes when his father sends him off to boarding school. Once there, Graham soon meets the ethereal Harold Brocklehurst, a fellow schoolboy who is an exact double of Graham’s imaginary friend. Thus begins an unforgettable love and friendship that shapes and reinvigorates both boys—but can their bond withstand the sudden and inexplicable strike of tragedy? - Summary by ChuckW
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Garden God: A Tale of Two Boys
- Author credits: Forrest Reid
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 13
- Listed recording duration: 2:47:46
Catalogue topics
- childhood
- homosexuality
- boarding school
- paganism
- pantheism
- lgbt
- boyhood
- platonism
Track guide
- 01 - Chapter I — 22:29
- 02 - Chapter II — 6:11
- 03 - Chapter III — 19:24
- 04 - Chapter IV — 13:17
- 05 - Chapter V — 24:19
- 06 - Chapter VI — 22:36
- 07 - Chapter VII — 10:32
- 08 - Chapter VIII — 21:30
- 09 - Chapter IX — 3:45
- 10 - Chapter X — 1:41
- 11 - Chapter XI — 8:52
- 12 - Chapter XII — 9:56
- 13 - Chapter XIII — 3:14
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