The Ingoldsby Legends, 1st Series: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Ingoldsby Legends, 1st Series, credited to Richard Harris Barham, 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 Ingoldsby Legends, 1st Series, by Richard Harris Barham. Read by Grant Hurlock. The Ingoldsby Legends are a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry supposedly written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, actually a pen-name of Richard Harris Barham. The legends were first printed in 1837 as a regular series in Bentley's Miscellany and later in New Monthly Magazine. The legends were illustrated by John Leech and George Cruikshank. They proved immensely popular and were compiled into books published in 1840, 1842 and 1847 by Richard Bentley. They remained popular through the Victorian era but have since fallen out of fame. An omnibus edition appeared in 1879: The Ingoldsby Legends; or Mirth and marvels. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Ingoldsby Legends, 1st Series
• Author credits: Richard Harris Barham
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 28
• Listed recording duration: 9:40:51

Catalogue topics

• legends
• myths
• ghost stories

Opening tracks: first 24 of 28

1. 01 - Prefaces to 1st & 2nd Editions — 9:46
2. 02 - The Spectre of Tappington - Part 1 — 39:15
3. 03 - The Spectre of Tappington - Part 2 — 37:09
4. 04 - The Hand of Glory - The Nurse's Story — 15:32
5. 05 - 'Look at the Clock!' - Patty Morgan the Milkmaid's Story — 17:25
6. 06 - Grey Dolphin - Part 1 — 29:55
7. 07 - Grey Dolphin - Part 2 — 27:18
8. 08 - The Ghost — 18:44
9. 09 - The Cynotaph — 12:44
10. 10 - The Leech of Folkestone - Mrs. Botherby's Story - Part 1 — 37:31
11. 11 - The Leech of Folkestone - Mrs. Botherby's Story - Part 2 — 39:18
12. 12 - Legend of Hamilton Tighe — 8:14
13. 13 - The Witches' Frolic — 31:13
14. 14 - Singular Passage in the Life of the Late Henry Harris, D.D. - Part 1 — 36:19
15. 15 - Singular Passage in the Life of the Late Henry Harris, D.D. - Part 2 — 27:48
16. 16 - The Jackdaw of Rheims — 9:53
17. 17 - A Lay of St. Dunstan — 20:09
18. 18 - A Lay of St. Gengulphus — 21:35
19. 19 - The Lay of St. Odille — 14:25
20. 20 - A Lay of St. Nicholas — 16:17
21. 21 - The Lady Rohesia — 19:47
22. 22 - The Tragedy — 8:29
23. 23 - Mr. Barney Maguire's Account of the Coronation — 7:23
24. 24 - The 'Monstre' Balloon — 8:13

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