The Golden Arrow


Read by Anne Erickson

(4 stars; 4 reviews)

Deborah, a young girl from a Shropshire farm family, falls so deeply in love with the new preacher that she agrees to live with him as man and wife without marriage. She instinctively understands that finding love is like finding the mystical golden arrow--a lesson that Stephen has yet to learn. Their relationship, combining the most pragmatic aspects of rural life with a sublime vision of the natural world, is paralleled by that of her brother Joe and his bride Lily, a restless girl who sees her marriage only as an escape from her domineering father. - Summary by Anne Erickson (8 hr 46 min)

Chapters

Chapter 1 19:31 Read by Anne Erickson
Chapter 2 6:34 Read by Anne Erickson
Chapter 3 9:43 Read by Anne Erickson
Chapter 4 14:02 Read by Anne Erickson
Chapter 5 9:32 Read by Anne Erickson
Chapter 6 11:40 Read by Anne Erickson
Chapter 7 11:31 Read by Anne Erickson
Chapter 8 13:53 Read by Anne Erickson
Chapter 9 7:12 Read by Anne Erickson
Chapter 10 7:06 Read by Anne Erickson
Chapter 11 5:49 Read by Anne Erickson
Chapter 12 12:36 Read by Anne Erickson
Chapters 13 and 14 17:06 Read by Anne Erickson
Chapters 15 and 16 10:30 Read by Anne Erickson
Chapters 17 and 18 21:14 Read by Anne Erickson
Chapters 19 and 20 20:28 Read by Anne Erickson
Chapters 21 to 23 17:09 Read by Anne Erickson
Chapters 24 and 25 19:54 Read by Anne Erickson
Chapters 26 to 28 25:23 Read by Anne Erickson
Chapters 29 to 31 24:06 Read by Anne Erickson
Chapters 32 to 34 27:41 Read by Anne Erickson
Chapters 35 to 37 30:54 Read by Anne Erickson
Chapters 38 to 40 32:13 Read by Anne Erickson
Chapter 41 30:59 Read by Anne Erickson
Chapters 42 to 44 21:25 Read by Anne Erickson
Chapters 45 and 46 28:26 Read by Anne Erickson
Chapters 47 and 48 23:49 Read by Anne Erickson
Chapters 49 and 50 23:36 Read by Anne Erickson
Chapters 51 to 53 22:05 Read by Anne Erickson

Reviews


(4.5 stars)

I'm glad I read somewhere that Cold Comfort Farm is a parody inspired by The Golden Arrow, or novels like it, as knowing this I was able to see the connections and smile as Mary Webb played upon her readers' emotions in this roller coaster of a novel with its cast of memorable characters. The reader did a good job with the West Country tongue - I won't say accent as she kept her own - and the descriptions of the Shropshire countryside and farm creatures and wildlife were beautiful.