When the World Shook

H. Rider Haggard (1856 - 1925)

A fictional memoir of Humphrey Arbuthnot of Devonshire, we are taken on a voyage to the island of Orofena, in the South Seas, together with Bickley, the servant Bastin and the spaniel Tommy. It is a land of adventure and danger, the result of which eventually leads to the author's death. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Arbuthnot Describes Himself ToddHW
00:28:25
Play 02 Bastin and Bickley Jarrod Wetzel-Brown
00:21:28
Play 03 Natalie Jarrod Wetzel-Brown
00:20:19
Play 04 Death and Departure Jarrod Wetzel-Brown
00:22:01
Play 05 The Cyclone Tim Quinn
00:28:36
Play 06 Land mythdom
00:23:11
Play 07 The Orofenans Daniel Holbrow
00:26:40
Play 08 Bastin Attempts the Martyr’s Crown Alan Lord
00:30:45
Play 09 The Island in the Lake Oneofone56
00:28:44
Play 10 The Dwellers in the Tomb Adam Thompson
00:26:20
Play 11 Resurrection Adam Thompson
00:28:52
Play 12 Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Years! Adam Thompson
00:31:00
Play 13 Oro Speaks and Bastin Argues Adam Thompson
00:25:30
Play 14 The Under-world sophiatbow
00:26:51
Play 15 Oro in His House czandra
00:19:40
Play 16 Visions of the Past Darrell Nobles
00:30:38
Play 17 Yva Explains TheIntern356
00:35:21
Play 18 The Accident Francesco F
00:38:02
Play 19 The Proposals of Bastin and Bickley czandra
00:26:06
Play 20 Oro and Arbuthnot Travel by Night TR Love
00:37:50
Play 21 Love’s Eternal Altar TR Love
00:25:49
Play 22 The Command Elroi
00:27:53
Play 23 In the Temple of Fate Elroi
00:37:57
Play 24 The Chariot of the Pit fshort
00:37:07
Play 25 Sacrifice Howard Skyman
00:27:25
Play 26 Tommy TR Love
00:27:43
Play 27 Bastin Discovers a Resemblance Howard Skyman
00:13:49
Play 28 NOTE By J. R. Bickley, M.R.C.S. Jade Leah Pilling
00:03:38