The Roots of the Mountains: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Roots of the Mountains by William Morris: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 59 original MP3 tracks, 15:05:50 running time and a link to listen.
The Roots of the Mountains, credited to William Morris, 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 Roots of the Mountains by William Morris. Read in English by Phil Benson The Roots of the Mountains was the second in a projected series of three historical novels set in a pre-medieval Germanic world (the third was not completed). It follows the themes of House of the Wolfings, which was published in the same year, into a later generation. A loose alliance of Dalesmen, Woodlanders and Shepherds who have lived in peace around the valley of Burgdale for so long that they barely remember war, find their peace disturbed by the Sons of the Wolf and the invading Dusky Men. Morris’s exploration of the social and economic organization of this fictional pre-medieval world reflects his socialism; the figure of the Dusky Men (unable to breed with the Germanic tribes and slaughtered without compassion) reflects the racial politics of his times. Long neglected, Morris’s two Germanic novels were rediscovered when they were published as the sixteenth and nineteenth volumes in the celebrated Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library. - Summary by Phil Benson
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Roots of the Mountains
- Author credits: William Morris
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 59
- Listed recording duration: 15:05:50
Catalogue topics
- fantasy
Opening tracks: first 24 of 59
- 01 - Chapter I — 26:52
- 02 - Chapter II — 14:05
- 03 - Chapter III — 15:38
- 04 - Chapter IV — 21:24
- 05 - Chapter V — 10:07
- 06 - Chapter VI — 19:36
- 07 - Chapter VII — 15:53
- 08 - Chapter VIII — 5:08
- 09 - Chapter IX — 7:05
- 10 - Chapter X — 12:16
- 11 - Chapter XI — 11:22
- 12 - Chapter XII — 8:56
- 13 - Chapter XIII — 8:49
- 14 - Chapter XIV — 11:38
- 15 - Chapter XV — 11:22
- 16 - Chapter XVI — 9:06
- 17 - Chapter XVII — 17:51
- 18 - Chapter XVIII — 10:20
- 19 - Chapter XIX — 31:27
- 20 - Chapter XX — 34:58
- 21 - Chapter XXI — 23:03
- 22 - Chapter XXII — 22:18
- 23 - Chapter XXIII — 7:04
- 24 - Chapter XXIV — 12:01
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