The Untilled Field: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Untilled Field, credited to George Moore, 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 Untilled Field by George Moore. Read in English by NoelBadrian. George Moore, an Irish writer involved with the Celtic Revival was influenced by the French Realists and particularly by the work of Émile Zola. Often considered as the first modern Irish novelist he became involved with Lady Gregory and William Butler Yeats in the establishment of the Irish Literary Theatre. As part of his involvement with the Literary Revival, he wrote a set of short stories set in Ireland, drawn from his experiences growing up on his family’s estates in Co. Mayo. The stories were intended to be translated into Irish as a part of a new tradition of Gaelic Literature. The stories were later published in English as The Untilled Field, in 1903. Moore was initially influenced by Ivan Turgenyev’s collection of short stories, Tales of a Sportsman and in turn they are thought to have been an influence on James Joyce’s Dubliners collection. Moore’s stories look at Irish rural life at the end of the 19th Century and examines the role that the clergy played in the lives of those who remained after mass emigration denuded the Irish countryside. (Summary by Noel Badrian)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Untilled Field
• Author credits: George Moore
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 10:40:01

Catalogue topics

• Ireland
• rural life
• catholic clergy

Track guide

1. 01 - In the Clay — 42:40
2. 02 - Some Parishioners - Part 1 — 30:42
3. 03 - Some Parishioners - Part 2 — 30:31
4. 04 - Some Parishioners - Part 3 — 41:56
5. 05 - Some Parishioners - Part 4 — 40:15
6. 06 - The Exile - Part 1 — 30:22
7. 07 - The Exile - Part 2 — 22:43
8. 08 - Home Sickness — 31:19
9. 09 - A Letter to Rome — 32:44
10. 10 - Julia Cahill's Curse — 32:49
11. 11 - A Play-house in the Waste — 27:17
12. 12 - The Wedding Gown — 24:17
13. 13 - The Clerk's Quest — 12:59
14. 14 - Alms-Giving — 11:40
15. 15 - So On He Fares — 28:07
16. 16 - The Wild Goose - Part 1 — 37:32
17. 17 - The Wild Goose - Part 2 — 40:06
18. 18 - The Wild Goose - Part 3 — 39:04
19. 19 - The Wild Goose - Part 4 — 44:14
20. 20 - The Way Back — 38:44

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