The Lay of the Last Minstrel: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Lay of the Last Minstrel, credited to Sir Walter Scott, 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 Lay of the Last Minstrel by Sir Walter Scott. Read in English by Peter Tucker. An aging minstrel seeks who hospitality at Newark Castle and in recompense tells a tale of a sixteenth-century Border feud. In the poem, Lady Margaret Scott of Buccleuch, the "Flower of Teviot" is beloved by Baron Henry of Cranstown an ally of the Ker Clan, but a deadly feud exists between the two border clans of Scott and Carr/Ker, which has resulted in the recent murder of Lady Margaret's father, Sir Walter Scott of Buccleuch by the Kers on the High Street in Edinburgh. Maragaret's widowed mother – Lady Janet – hates the Ker clan as a result, and is adamant in refusing her consent to any suggestion of marriage between the lovers. Summary by Wikipedi.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Lay of the Last Minstrel
• Author credits: Sir Walter Scott
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 8
• Listed recording duration: 2:53:26

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• Epic
• Scottish
• minstrelsy

Track guide

1. 00 - Introduction by Author, 1831 — 27:42
2. 01 - Inscription and foreword — 2:08
3. 02 - Canto I — 21:33
4. 03 - Canto II — 21:51
5. 04 - Canto III — 20:26
6. 05 - Canto IV — 28:19
7. 06 - Canto V — 23:38
8. 07 - Canto VI — 27:49

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