The Black Dwarf
Sir Walter Scott
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The Black Dwarf is the first of the “Tales of My Landlord” series, which also includes The Bride of Lammermoor and The Heart of Midlothian. The third preliminary chapter depicts two horsemen arriving at the Wallace Inn in Gandercleugh, where one of the horsemen relates the tale. The story proper is set on the Scottish borders during the reign of Queen Anne. The Jacobite movement is in its infancy, but the inhabitants of this part of the country have enough to quarrel about without politics inciting them to it. Several families of high and low birth bear no good intentions to each other, and a weird, brooding dwarf, who wishes ill on all of humanity, seems to direct and perpetuate the mayhem from his lonely cottage on Mucklestane Moor. (tbragg) (6 hr 15 min)
Chapters
Tales of My Landlord, Introduction | 14:43 | Read by tbragg |
Introduction to The Black Dwarf | 17:07 | Read by tbragg |
Chapter One | 14:04 | Read by tbragg |
Chapter Two | 16:32 | Read by tbragg |
Chapter Three | 22:42 | Read by tbragg |
Chapter Four | 26:49 | Read by tbragg |
Chapter Five | 19:16 | Read by Gillian Hendrie |
Chapter Six | 10:10 | Read by Gillian Hendrie |
Chapter Seven | 26:25 | Read by Gillian Hendrie |
Chapter Eight | 16:36 | Read by Gillian Hendrie |
Chapter Nine | 16:58 | Read by Gillian Hendrie |
Chapter Ten | 23:51 | Read by Gillian Hendrie |
Chapter Eleven | 17:24 | Read by ToddHW |
Chapter Twelve | 12:51 | Read by ToddHW |
Chapter Thirteen | 31:22 | Read by Neala |
Chapter Fourteen | 19:07 | Read by Deon Gines |
Chapter Fifteen | 22:49 | Read by Deon Gines |
Chapter Sixteen | 12:52 | Read by DrPGould |
Chapter Seventeen | 16:41 | Read by DrPGould |
Chapter Eighteen | 17:02 | Read by DrPGould |
Reviews
A welcome Scottish voice
Haggis Father
Quite a simple tale (at least by Scott's standards) but well told and well read. I admire the attempts of our American friends at the Scots' brogue but what a pleasure to have the most difficult parts read by a Scottish voice. It cut out all the translation duties.
so confused
glitteryjade
I have no clue what's going on and I'm at chapter 4... maybe I'm ignorant. I know nothing at this point... the voices sound great though
good! a bit slow, though.
A LibriVox Listener
Good reading. Scottish is a little hard to understand however.