The Wooden Horse


Read by David Wales

(4.6 stars; 8 reviews)

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
(9 hr 3 min)

Chapters

Chapter 1 30:57 Read by David Wales
Chapter 2 47:17 Read by David Wales
Chapter 3 37:24 Read by David Wales
Chapter 4 45:15 Read by David Wales
Chapter 5 46:55 Read by David Wales
Chapter 6 24:50 Read by David Wales
Chapter 7 40:15 Read by David Wales
Chapter 8 29:04 Read by David Wales
Chapter 9 30:34 Read by David Wales
Chapter 10 25:00 Read by David Wales
Chapter 11 34:25 Read by David Wales
Chapter 12 36:04 Read by David Wales
Chapter 13 40:21 Read by David Wales
Chapter 14 34:02 Read by David Wales
Chapters 15 and 16 40:39 Read by David Wales