Length5h 1m
About this audiobook
Golden Walter leaves behind a life of betrayal to travel to a surreal land where the laws of reality are suspended. He encounters a dwarf, a maiden, and a sorceress in a wood that serves as a psychological landscape of desire and entrapment. The prose is deliberately archaic, creating a distance that enhances the dreamlike, almost hallucinogenic quality of the narrative. It is a pioneering work of supernatural fiction that dispenses with the modern world entirely to exist in a realm of pure imagination.
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Rating★★★★ 3.6 (3.8K)
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GenreFantasy, Literary Classics, General Fiction
Length5 hrs 1 min
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 24, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1: Of Golden Walter And His Father
2Chapter 2: Golden Walter Takes Ship To Sail The Seas
3Chapter 3: Walter Heareth Tidings Of The Death Of His Father
4Chapter 4: Storm Befalls The Bartholomew, And She Is Driven Off Her Course
5Chapter 5: Now They Come To A New Land
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6Chapter 6: The Old Man Tells Walter Of Himself. Walter Sees A Shard In The Cliff-Wall
7Chapter 7: Walter Comes To The Shard In The Rock-Wall
8Chapter 8: Walter Wends The Waste
9Chapter 9: Walter Happeneth On The First Of Those Three Creatures
10Chapter 10: Walter Happeneth On Another Creature In The Strange Land
11Chapter 11: Walter Happeneth On The Mistress
12Chapter 12: The Wearing Of Four Days In The Wood Beyond The World
13Chapter 13: Now Is The Hunt Up
14Chapter 14: The Hunting Of The Hart
15Chapter 15: The Slaying Of The Quarry
16Chapter 16: Of The King's Son And The Maid
17Chapter 17: Of The House And The Pleasance In The Wood
18Chapter 18: The Maid Gives Walter Tryst
19Chapter 19: Walter Goes To Fetch Home The Lion's Hide
20Chapter 20: Walter Is Bidden To Another Tryst
21Chapter 21: Walter And The Maid Flee From The Golden House
22Chapter 22: Of The Dwarf And The Pardon
23Chapter 23: Of The Peaceful Ending Of That Wild Day
24Chapter 24: The Maid Tells Of What Had Befallen Her
25Chapter 25: Of The Triumphant Summer Array Of The Maid
26Chapter 26: They Come To The Folk Of The Bears
27Chapter 27: Morning Amongst The Bears
28Chapter 28: Of The New God Of The Bears
29Chapter 29: Walter Strays In The Pass And Is Sundered From The Maid
30Chapter 30: Now They Meet Again
31Chapter 31: They Come Upon New Folk
32Chapter 32: Of The New King Of The City And Land Of Stark-Wall
33Chapter 33: Concerning The Fashion Of King-Making In Stark-Wall
34Chapter 34: Now Cometh The Maid To The King
35Chapter 35: Of The King Of Stark-Wall And His Queen
36Chapter 36: Of Walter And The Maid In The Days Of The Kingship
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