
In a Quiet Village
Heart Warming Stories for Christmas TimeBy Sabine Baring-GouldLength7h 6m
About this audiobook
In a Quiet Village is a short story collection by Sabine Baring-Gould. Baring-Gould was an Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, folk song collector and eclectic scholar. His bibliography consists of more than 1,240 publications, though this list continues to grow. His family home, the manor house of Lew Trenchard, near Okehampton, Devon, has been preserved as he had it rebuilt and is now a hotel. He is remembered particularly as a writer of hymns, the best-known being "Onward, Christian Soldiers", "Sing Lullaby", and "Now the Day Is Over". He also translated the carol "Gabriel's Message" from the Basque language to English. Contents:
Dan'l Coombe
Timothy Slouch
DobleDrewe
Mary Trembath
The Old Post-boy
Auntie
Brother Augustine
Haroun the Carpenter
Shone Evans
Henry Frost
Milk-maids
The Bride's Well
Jack Hannaford
From Death to Life
Cicely Crowe
The Weathercock
A Plum-Pudding
A Christmas Tree
Folk-prayers
Crazy Jane
Audiobook details
GenreSpirituality and Religion
Length7 hrs 6 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 25, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1DAN’L COOMBE
11MILK-MAIDS
2TIMOTHY SLOUCH
12THE BRIDE’S WELL
3DOBLE DREWE
13JACK HANNAFORD
4MARY TREMBATH
14FROM DEATH TO LIFE
5THE OLD POST-BOY
15CICELY CROWE
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6AUNTIE
16THE WEATHERCOCK
7BROTHER AUGUSTINE
17A PLUM-PUDDING
8HAROUN THE CARPENTER
18A CHRISTMAS TREE
9SHONE EVANS
19FOLK-PRAYERS
10HENRY FROST
20CRAZY JANE