The South Country

audiobook

The South Country

by Edward Thomas

EN·~7 hours·16 chapters

Chapters

16 total
1

THE HEART OF ENGLAND SERIES

2:08
2

CHAPTER I THE SOUTH COUNTRY

1:05:21
3

CHAPTER III SPRING—HAMPSHIRE—KENT—SURREY

35:18
4

CHAPTER IV AN ADVENTURER

10:55
5

CHAPTER V SUSSEX

7:59
6

CHAPTER VI A RETURN TO NATURE

37:14
7

CHAPTER VII A RAILWAY CARRIAGE—SURREY—SUSSEX

1:28:44
8

CHAPTER IX HISTORY AND THE PARISH—HAMPSHIRE—CORNWALL

58:34
9

CHAPTER X SUMMER—SUSSEX

9:58
10

CHAPTER XI HAMPSHIRE—AN UMBRELLA MAN

16:13

Description

A gentle, wandering voice guides listeners through a year of foot‑travel across Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, Wiltshire and Cornwall. The author moves from quiet hedgerows to bustling market towns, letting the changing seasons colour each scene. Along the way, familiar routes become meditations on the endlessness of roads, while the countryside itself is described in vivid, almost lyrical detail.

The prose reads like a poem, stitching together observations of weather, wildlife and the occasional canal or historic path. It captures the quiet rhythm of village life and the subtle histories that linger in stone walls and riverbanks. Listeners will feel the soft pull of the South Country’s rolling hills and hear the author’s reflective musings on the simple act of walking, making this a soothing yet richly textured portrait of England’s heartland.

Details

Language

en

Duration

~7 hours (450K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Henry Flower and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

2019-11-22

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Edward Thomas

Edward Thomas

1878–1917

Best known for poems that catch the English countryside in a clear, unsettled light, he came to verse late after building a career as a critic and prose writer. His friendship with Robert Frost helped spark the brief, remarkable burst of poetry that made his name, before his life was cut short in the First World War.

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