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    The Broad Highway
    The Broad Highway
    The Broad Highway
    Audiobook9 hours

    The Broad Highway

    Written by John Jeffery Farnol

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    Our hero, Peter Vibart, an Oxford graduate with no means of support but for 10 guineas he has inherited, sets out on a walking tour of the Kent countryside. Along the way, he meets many quaint and adoring characters as well as a few ne’er-do-wells, meets with several disasters and triumphs, and eventually he meets "The Woman," who leads him to even more disasters and triumphs. (Introduction by John Lieder)

    Proof-listened by Dawn Larsen and BainbridgeCatherine.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014

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