Chasing the Bard
Philippa Ballantine
Sive, ancient goddess of the Fey is busy watching her world die. Darkness creeps over the Fey world, and its once immortal people and creatures are fading away. As much as she despises humans, Sive knows across the Veil that separates the worlds power can be found.
So enlisting the help of her trickster cousin, Puck, she tracks down a mortal bard who may just offer hope. As they watch the child become a man, the brutal and destructive power grows stronger in Sive’s realm, threatening to spread across to the Veil between words. Yet as the young bard finds his own strength, he wrestles with his desires for Sive while struggling against her manipulations and her plans for him.
The power of words and magic is at his command, but can Sive find a way master her own nature and persuade William Shakespeare to risk his life to save her world?
The author of The Books of the Order, and the co-author of The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences weaves a tale threaded with magic, love and the power of creation.
Duration - 11h 22m.
Author - Philippa Ballantine.
Narrator - Philippa Ballantine.
Published Date - Wednesday, 24 January 2024.
Copyright - © 2009 Philippa Ballantine ©.
Location:
United States
Networks:
Philippa Ballantine
The Chronicles of Art
Imagine That! Studios
English Audiobooks
Findaway Audiobooks
Description:
Sive, ancient goddess of the Fey is busy watching her world die. Darkness creeps over the Fey world, and its once immortal people and creatures are fading away. As much as she despises humans, Sive knows across the Veil that separates the worlds power can be found. So enlisting the help of her trickster cousin, Puck, she tracks down a mortal bard who may just offer hope. As they watch the child become a man, the brutal and destructive power grows stronger in Sive’s realm, threatening to spread across to the Veil between words. Yet as the young bard finds his own strength, he wrestles with his desires for Sive while struggling against her manipulations and her plans for him. The power of words and magic is at his command, but can Sive find a way master her own nature and persuade William Shakespeare to risk his life to save her world? The author of The Books of the Order, and the co-author of The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences weaves a tale threaded with magic, love and the power of creation. Duration - 11h 22m. Author - Philippa Ballantine. Narrator - Philippa Ballantine. Published Date - Wednesday, 24 January 2024. Copyright - © 2009 Philippa Ballantine ©.
Language:
English
Introduction
Duration:00:00:11
Chapter 1: Lord, what fools these mortals be!
Duration:00:31:12
Chapter 2: When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools
Duration:00:24:31
Chapter 3: the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge
Duration:00:34:13
Chapter 4: If one should be a prey, how much the better To fall before the lion than the wolf!
Duration:00:32:40
Chapter 5: Who will not change a raven for a dove?
Duration:00:29:16
Chapter 6: Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth’s a stuff will not endure.
Duration:00:28:40
Chapter 7: Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear.
Duration:00:24:34
Chapter 8: Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends
Duration:00:22:41
Chapter 9: When the hurly-burlys done, When the Battle is lost and won
Duration:00:34:34
Chapter 10: All this the world well knows; yet none knows well To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.
Duration:00:20:54
Chapter 11: but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.
Duration:00:20:39
Chapter 12: The hind that would be mated by the lion Must die for love.
Duration:00:37:00
Chapter 13: when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.
Duration:00:23:27
Chapter 14: Sound trumpets! Let our Bloody Colours Wave
Duration:00:16:44
Chapter 15: He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse’s health, a boy’s love, or a whore’s oath.
Duration:00:32:04
Chapter 16: Love by another’s Eyes
Duration:00:27:31
Chapter 17: Love is a spirit all compact of fire, Not gross to sink, but light, and will aspire.
Duration:00:15:40
Chapter 18: The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time
Duration:00:41:45
Chapter 19: Thou dost love her, because thou knowst I love her
Duration:00:20:36
Chapter 20: The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger
Duration:00:14:27
Chapter 21: Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which with pain purchased doth inherit pain
Duration:00:28:48
Chapter 22: How now, my flesh, my child! What, makest thou me a dullard in this act?
Duration:00:14:48
Chapter 23: Let the white death sit on thy cheek for ever; We’ll ne’er come there again.
Duration:00:38:57
Chapter 24: The Fire-eyed Maid of smoky war, all hot and bleeding will we offer them
Duration:00:16:11
Chapter 25: My fate cries out, And makes each petty artery in this body As hardy as the Nemean lion’s nerve.
Duration:00:40:47
Chapter 26: As you from crimes would pardon’d be, Let your indulgence set me free.
Duration:00:09:15
Ending Credits
Duration:00:00:13