Toying with the distinctions between reader and narrator, author and character, imagination and perception, Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole's The Golden Scarecrow, in nine chapters, presents nine stories of nine children, united by location, more or less. A tenth story of a tenth life, divided into Prologue and Epilogue, provides a different sort of unity. These gentle and horrible tales of the weird may seem suitable for young readers, then again, they may not. (Summary by Cynthia Moyer)
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
01 - Prologue--Hugh Seymour
52:22 - Chapter 2
02 - I. Henry Fitzgeorge Strether
36:04 - Chapter 3
03 - II. Ernest Henry
48:59 - Chapter 4
04 - III. Angelina
44:49 - Chapter 5
05 - IV. Bim Rochester
40:57 - Chapter 6
06 - V. Nancy Ross
43:12 - Chapter 7
07 - VI. 'Enery
44:32 - Chapter 8
08 - VII. Barbara Flint
48:56 - Chapter 9
09 - VIII. Sarah Trefusis
50:14 - Chapter 10
10 - IX. Young John Scarlet
30:49 - Chapter 11
11 - Epilogue
40:58