When the World Shook
H. Rider Haggard
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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 (12 hr 37 min)
Chapters
| Arbuthnot Describes Himself | 28:25 | Read by ToddHW |
| Bastin and Bickley | 21:28 | Read by JWowsers |
| Natalie | 20:19 | Read by JWowsers |
| Death and Departure | 22:01 | Read by JWowsers |
| The Cyclone | 28:36 | Read by Tim Quinn |
| Land | 23:11 | Read by mythdom |
| The Orofenans | 26:40 | Read by Daniel Holbrow |
| Bastin Attempts the Martyr’s Crown | 30:45 | Read by Alan Lord |
| The Island in the Lake | 28:44 | Read by Oneofone56 |
| The Dwellers in the Tomb | 26:20 | Read by Adam Thompson |
| Resurrection | 28:52 | Read by Adam Thompson |
| Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Years! | 31:00 | Read by Adam Thompson |
| Oro Speaks and Bastin Argues | 25:30 | Read by Adam Thompson |
| The Under-world | 26:51 | Read by sophiatbow |
| Oro in His House | 19:40 | Read by czandra |
| Visions of the Past | 30:38 | Read by Darrell Nobles |
| Yva Explains | 35:21 | Read by TheIntern356 |
| The Accident | 38:02 | Read by Francesco F |
| The Proposals of Bastin and Bickley | 26:06 | Read by czandra |
| Oro and Arbuthnot Travel by Night | 37:50 | Read by TR Love |
| Love’s Eternal Altar | 25:49 | Read by TR Love |
| The Command | 27:53 | Read by Elroi |
| In the Temple of Fate | 37:57 | Read by Elroi |
| The Chariot of the Pit | 37:07 | Read by fshort |
| Sacrifice | 27:25 | Read by Howard Skyman |
| Tommy | 27:43 | Read by TR Love |
| Bastin Discovers a Resemblance | 13:49 | Read by Howard Skyman |
| NOTE By J. R. Bickley, M.R.C.S. | 3:38 | Read by Jade Leah Pilling |
Reviews
S.O.Y.
The storyline is classic H. R. Haggard, however without some of the usual typecasting of dueling female characters who simultaneously vie for the affections of the leading masculine character. As in other of Haggard’s works, an allusion to an afterlife that promises fulfillment of unrequited and sacrificial love interests in eternal bliss, affords a happy ending to the most difficult final circumstances and separations- :)
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