The Soul of London


Read by Cori Samuel

(4.5 stars; 5 reviews)

'Most of us love places very much as we may love what, for us, are the distinguished men of our social lives. [...] We are, all of us who are Londoners, paying visits of greater or less duration to a Personality that, whether we love it or very cordially hate it, fascinates us all. And, paying my visit, I have desired to give some such record.

I have tried to make it anything rather than encyclopaedic, topographical, or archaeological. To use a phrase of literary slang I have tried to "get the atmosphere" of modern London -- of the town in which I have passed so many days; of the immense place that has been the background for so many momentous happenings to so many of my fellows.' - Summary by Ford Madox Ford, from the Introductory; 1905. (4 hr 56 min)

Chapters

Chapter I. From A Distance, pt.1 32:03 Read by Cori Samuel
Chapter I. From A Distance, pt.2 23:30 Read by Cori Samuel
Chapter II. Roads Into London, pt.1 17:08 Read by Cori Samuel
Chapter II. Roads Into London, pt.2 18:58 Read by Cori Samuel
Chapter II. Roads Into London, pt.3 16:06 Read by Cori Samuel
Chapter III. Work In London, pt.1 31:46 Read by Cori Samuel
Chapter III. Work In London, pt.2 26:58 Read by Cori Samuel
Chapter III. Work In London, pt.3 11:13 Read by Cori Samuel
Chapter IV. London At Leisure, pt.1 22:35 Read by Cori Samuel
Chapter IV. London At Leisure, pt.2 23:54 Read by Cori Samuel
Chapter IV. London At Leisure, pt.3 14:31 Read by Cori Samuel
Chapter V. Rest In London, pt.1 22:41 Read by Cori Samuel
Chapter V. Rest In London, pt.2 17:08 Read by Cori Samuel
Chapter V. Rest In London, pt.3 17:38 Read by Cori Samuel

Reviews

Atmospheric


(5 stars)

Ford Madox Ford's book on London of 1906 is just as atmospheric as one of his great novels. Terrific reading by Cori Samuels.