The Hoosier Schoolmaster: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Hoosier Schoolmaster, credited to Edward Eggleston, 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 Hoosier Schoolmaster, by Edward Eggleston. Read by Bridget Gaige. "Want to be a school-master, do you? You? Well, what would you do in Flat Crick deestrick, I'd like to know? Why, the boys have driv off the last two, and licked the one afore them like blazes. You might teach a summer school, when nothin' but children come. But I 'low it takes a right smart man to be school-master in Flat Crick in the winter. They'd pitch you out of doors, sonny, neck and heels, afore Christmas." (Summary from Chapter 1)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Hoosier Schoolmaster
• Author credits: Edward Eggleston
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 35
• Listed recording duration: 5:48:34

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• teacher
• humor
• robbery
• dialect novel

Opening tracks: first 24 of 35

1. 00 - Preface — 34:05
2. 01 - A Private Lesson from a Bulldog — 23:27
3. 02 - A Spell Coming — 6:56
4. 03 - Mirandy, Hank, and Shocky — 17:17
5. 04 - Spelling Down the Master — 27:52
6. 05 - The Walk Home — 9:46
7. 06 - A Night at Pete Jones's — 10:37
8. 07 - Ominous Remarks of Mr. Jones — 4:29
9. 08 - The Struggle in the Dark — 5:43
10. 09 - Has God Forgotten Shocky? — 5:27
11. 10 - The Devil of Silence — 8:39
12. 11 - Miss Martha Hawkins — 10:42
13. 12 - The Hardshell Preacher — 14:31
14. 13 - A Struggle for the Mastery — 8:51
15. 14 - A Crisis with Bud — 8:35
16. 15 - The Church of the Best Licks — 7:10
17. 16 - The Church Militant — 7:41
18. 17 - A Council of War — 6:45
19. 18 - Odds and Ends — 5:56
20. 19 - Face to Face — 6:10
21. 20 - God Remembers Shocky — 9:04
22. 21 - Miss Nancy Sawyer — 2:55
23. 22 - Pancakes — 9:08
24. 23 - A Charitable Institution — 10:37

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