Jeremy At Crale; His Friends, His Ambitions And His One Great Enemy
Hugh Walpole
Read by David Wales
This 1927 work is the third and final in Walpole’s Jeremy series. (The others are Jeremy and Jeremy And Hamlet.) Jeremy’s home is in Polchester, a fictional English cathedral town in Walpole’s imagination. In this book Jeremy goes to boarding school.
“Jeremy at Crale [1927] has been my single attempt at a school-story. The genre is not an easy one for the very simple reason that a school-story can be only truly written by a boy who is still at school. It is all very well for us to say that we remember, but the things that we recall are for all of us the same things. There is the further difficulty that the sentiment of a boy's life is compounded of elements very dangerous and difficult for analysis…. The fact is that boys are both little beasts and little heroes, that the age of puberty is the terror of parents and headmasters, and that no one dares to speak frankly, even in these frank days, of what everyone knows to be true. However, these are dangerous matters….” (Walpole) - Summary by Hugh Walpole and david wales (8 hr 30 min)
Chapters
The Fortress | 29:35 | Read by David Wales |
House | 27:12 | Read by David Wales |
The War Of The Sheep And The Goats (I) The Picture | 32:21 | Read by David Wales |
Ridley | 30:50 | Read by David Wales |
The Dormouse | 31:39 | Read by David Wales |
The Game Against Raddan | 30:56 | Read by David Wales |
The War Of The Sheep And The Goats (II) The Feast | 31:18 | Read by David Wales |
Interlude: In Parlow's Rooms | 27:46 | Read by David Wales |
Flight Of The Dormouse | 29:05 | Read by David Wales |
Return Of The Dormouse | 30:48 | Read by David Wales |
Dark Days | 31:36 | Read by David Wales |
Visit Of Uncle Samuel | 27:45 | Read by David Wales |
The Upper Ten - And The Lower Five | 28:50 | Read by David Wales |
The War Of The Sheep And The Goats (III) The Fight | 32:01 | Read by David Wales |
Life Begins To-Morrow? | 29:57 | Read by David Wales |
The Match Against Callendar | 32:09 | Read by David Wales |
Night-Piece: House-Supper | 26:53 | Read by David Wales |