The Maid Of Sker: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Maid Of Sker, credited to Richard Doddridge Blackmore, 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 Maid Of Sker by Richard Doddridge Blackmore. Read in English by Jim Locke; jenno Who is Bardie? Her refined clothes show that she is not an ordinary girl. But why did she have to be saved from the sea by a fisherman? This story is through the eyes of the fisherman, who followed Bardie throughout her childhood and attempted to discover her roots. - Summary by Stav Nisser. Note: This text, published more than 150 years ago, contains race-related words and descriptions, which listeners may find offensive.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Maid Of Sker
• Author credits: Richard Doddridge Blackmore
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 68
• Listed recording duration: 22:10:47

Catalogue topics

• Mystery
• victorinan novel
• maritime ficton

Opening tracks: first 24 of 68

1. 01 - FISHERMAN DAVY A FISH OUT OF WATER — 5:49
2. 02 - HUNGER DRIVES HIM A-FISHING — 12:54
3. 03 - THE FISH ARE AS HUNGRY AS HE IS — 15:32
4. 04 - HE LANDS AN UNEXPECTED FISH — 11:41
5. 05 - A LITTLE ORPHAN MERMAID — 19:55
6. 06 - FINDS A HOME OF SOME SORT — 17:00
7. 07 - BOAT VERSUS BARDIE — 16:01
8. 08 - CHILDREN WILL BE CHILDREN — 15:28
9. 09 - SANDHILLS TURNED TO SAND-HOLES — 20:31
10. 10 - UNDER THE ROCK — 14:55
11. 11 - A WRECKER WRECKED — 21:42
12. 12 - HOW TO SELL FISH — 21:23
13. 13 - THE CORONER AND THE CORONET — 17:58
14. 14 - IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE EVIDENCE — 18:13
15. 15 - A VERDICT ON THE JURY — 15:38
16. 16 - TRUTH LIES SOMETIMES IN A WELL — 21:16
17. 17 - FOR A LITTLE CHANGE OF AIR — 23:59
18. 18 - PUBLIC APPROBATION — 24:11
19. 19 - A CRAFT BEYOND THE LAW — 18:33
20. 20 - CONFIDENTIAL INTERCOURSE — 20:32
21. 21 - CROSS-EXAMINATION — 17:50
22. 22 - ANOTHER DISAPPOINTMENT — 18:01
23. 23 - INTO GOOD SOCIETY — 17:39
24. 24 - SOUND INVESTMENTS — 23:12

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