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The Forest Lovers

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My story will take you into times and spaces alike rude and uncivil. Blood will be spilt, virgins suffer distresses; the horn will sound through woodland glades; dogs, wolves, deer, and men, Beauty and the Beasts, will tumble each other, seeking life or death with their proper tools. There should be mad work, not devoid of entertainment. When you read the word Explicit, if you have laboured so far, you will know something of Morgraunt Forest and the Countess Isabel; the Abbot of Holy Thorn will have postured and schemed (with you behind the arras); you will have wandered with Isoult and will know why she was called La Desirous, with Prosper le Gai, and will understand how a man may fall in love with his own wife. Finally, of Galors and his affairs, of the great difference there may be between a Christian and the brutes, of love and hate, grudging and open humour, faith and works, cloisters and thoughts uncloistered—all in the green wood—you will know as much as I do if you have cared to follow the argument. - Summary by Maurice Hewlett (11 hr 1 min)

Chapters

I. PROSPER LE GAI RIDES OUT

21:48

Read by Grace Buchanan

II. MORGRAUNT, AND A DEAD KNIGHT

22:19

Read by Grace Buchanan

III. HOLY THORN AND HOLY CHURCH

12:06

Read by Derek Trial

IV. DOM GALORS

9:37

Read by Nicola Lake

V. LA DESIROUS

23:01

Read by Marie Christian

VI. THE VIRGIN MARRIAGE

23:35

Read by Nicola Lake

VII. GALORS ABJURES

10:41

Read by ToddHW

VIII. THE SALLY AT DAWN

32:39

Read by Derek Trial

IX. THE BLOOD-CHASE AND THE LOVE CHASE

15:48

Read by Lan Kao

X. FOREST ALMS

15:48

Read by Kathleen Moore

XI. SANCTUARY

14:21

Read by Kathleen Moore

XII. BROKEN SANCTUARY

18:51

Read by Cindy Gorman

XIII. HIGH MARCH, AND A GREAT LADY

13:39

Read by Michele Eaton

XIV. A RECORDER

31:27

Read by Alysson Light

XV. THREE AT TORTSENTIER

39:32

Read by Alysson Light

XVI. BOY AND GIRL

22:37

Read by Alysson Light

XVII. ROY

28:51

Read by Alysson Light

XVIII. BOY'S LOVE

11:49

Read by Joe Selah

XIX. LADY'S LOVE

24:28

Read by Alysson Light

XX. HOW PROSPER HELD A REVIEW

26:31

Read by Alysson Light

XXI. HOW THE NARRATIVE SMACKS AGAIN OF THE SOIL

11:27

Read by Joe Selah

XXII GALORS CONQUAESTOR

20:05

Read by Marie Christian

XXIII. FALVE THE CHARCOAL-BURNER

12:04

Read by Joe Selah

XXIV. SECRET THINGS AT HAUTERIVE

15:24

Read by czandra

XXV. THE ROAD TO GOLTRES

9:55

Read by Scott McKinley

XXVI. GUESS-WORK AT GOLTRES

25:32

Read by Scott McKinley

XXVII. GALORS RIDES HUNTING

8:39

Read by MoonLylith

XXVIII. MERCY WITH THE BEASTS.

15:29

Read by Marie Christian

XXIX. WANMEETING CRIES, 'HA! SAINT JAMES!'

21:16

Read by Marie Christian

XXX. THE CHAINED VIRGIN OF SAINT THORN

16:09

Read by Marie Christian

XXXI. 'ENTRA PER ME'

13:09

Read by RyanS

XXXII 'BIDE THE TIME'

16:57

Read by ToddHW

XXXIII. SALOMON IS DRIVEN HOME

16:21

Read by ToddHW

XXXIV. LA DESIRÉE

8:19

Read by Jack Kali

XXXV. FOREST LOVE

11:17

Read by Jack Kali

XXXVI. THE LADY PIETOSA DE BRÉAUTÉ

20:24

Read by czandra