The Wooden Horse
Walpole’s first novel (1909), The Wooden Horse is the story of the Trojans, a family which accepted tranquilly the belief that they were the people for whom the world was created. But when Harry Trojan came home after twenty years in New Zealand, with the democracy learned by working his hands, he was the "wooden horse" who boldly carried into the Trojan walls a whole army of alien ideals, which made of that egotistic family a group of human beings content to be human. Interesting are his struggles against stubborn prejudice; dreamlike the pictures of the old Trojan house, rising from the edge of the gray Cornish cliff like an older cliff, yet surrounded by fragrant rose gardens; but what most distinguishes The Wooden Horse is its passionate adoration of the sea, the cliffs, the weather-worn old Cornish houses, where bearded men tell of haunted moors and the winds of the deep. - Summary by David Wales
Genre(s): Literary Fiction, Published 1900 onward
Language: English
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Play 01 | Chapter 1 | David Wales |
00:30:57 |
Play 02 | Chapter 2 | David Wales |
00:47:17 |
Play 03 | Chapter 3 | David Wales |
00:37:24 |
Play 04 | Chapter 4 | David Wales |
00:45:15 |
Play 05 | Chapter 5 | David Wales |
00:46:55 |
Play 06 | Chapter 6 | David Wales |
00:24:50 |
Play 07 | Chapter 7 | David Wales |
00:40:15 |
Play 08 | Chapter 8 | David Wales |
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Play 09 | Chapter 9 | David Wales |
00:30:34 |
Play 10 | Chapter 10 | David Wales |
00:25:00 |
Play 11 | Chapter 11 | David Wales |
00:34:25 |
Play 12 | Chapter 12 | David Wales |
00:36:04 |
Play 13 | Chapter 13 | David Wales |
00:40:21 |
Play 14 | Chapter 14 | David Wales |
00:34:02 |
Play 15 | Chapters 15 and 16 | David Wales |
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