The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine
By William Carleton
Length15h 20m
About this audiobook
The Black Prophet centres upon an unsolved murder and the love affair between the niece of the victim and the son of his supposed killer, and the plot unfolds against the powerfully rendered background of the famine and typhus epidemic of 1817, which Carleton had witnessed at first hand. Yeats praised the novel's 'sombre and passionate dialogue', and said that 'all nature, and not merely man's nature, seems to pour out for me its inbred fatalism.' (Goodreads)
Audiobook details
Rating★★★ 3.3 (110)
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Fairy Tales and Folklore
Length15 hrs 20 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 15, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I. — Glendhu, or the Black Glen; Scene of Domestic Affection.
2CHAPTER II. — The Black Prophet Prophesies.
3CHAPTER III. — A Family on the Decline—Omens.
4CHAPTER IV. — A Dance, and Double Discovery.
5CHAPTER V. — The Black Prophet is Startled by a Black Prophecy.
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6CHAPTER VI. — A Rustic Miser and His Establishment
7CHAPTER VII. — A Panorama of Misery.
8CHAPTER VIII. — A Middle Man and Magistrate—Master and Man.
9CHAPTER IX. — Meeting of Strangers—Mysterious Dialogue.
10CHAPTER X. — The Black Prophet makes a Disclosure.
11CHAPTER XI. — Pity and Remorse.
12CHAPTER XII. — Famine, Death, and Sorrow.
13CHAPTER XIII. — Sarah's Defence of a Murderer.
14CHAPTEE XIV. — A Middleman Magistrate of the Old School, and his Clerk.
15CHAPTER XV. — A Plot and a Prophecy.
16CHAPTER XVI. — Mysterious Disappearance of the Tobacco-box.
17CHAPTER XVII. — National Calamity—Sarah in Love and Sorrow.
18CHAPTER XVIII. — Love Wins the Race from Profligacy.
19CHAPTER XIX. — Hanlon Secures the Tobacco-box.—Strange Scene at Midnight.
20CHAPTER XX. — Tumults—Confessions of Murder.
21CHAPTEE XXI. — Condy Datton goes to Prison.
22CHAPTER XXII. — Re-appearance of the Box—Friendly Dialogue Between Jimmy Branighan and the Pedlar
23CHAPTER XXIII. — Darby in Danger—Nature Triumphs.
24CHAPTER XXIV. — Rivalry.
25CHAPTEE XXV. — Sarah Without Hope.
26CHAPTER XXVI. — The Pedlar Runs a Close Risk of the Stocks.
27CHAPTER XXVII. — Sarah Ill—Mave Again, Heroic.
28CHAPTER XXVIII. — Double Treachery.
29CHAPTER XXIX. — A Picture of the Present—Sarah Breaks her Word.
30CHAPTER XXX. — Self-sacrifice—Villany
31CHAPTER XXXI. — A Double Trial—Retributive Justice.
32CHAPTER XXXII. — Conclusion.
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