# House of Baltazar

An audiobook by William John Locke, read by LibriVox volunteers (10 h 40 min, English).

Twenty years ago, John Balthazar, a notable and brilliant Cambridge mathematician, left England abruptly as he found himself falling in love with a woman who was not his wife. No one hears from him for 20 years and it's assumed he's dead. He travels to China where he steeps himself in the culture and returns incognito 20 years later with his Chinese pupil, Quong Ho. They live in a remote farmhouse where he stays in blissful ignorance of the events of the First World War until a German zeppelin crashes nearby and blows up his house. Abruptly brought back to the reality of life in 1916, Baltazar finds that his wife has long since died but has left a son (a soldier) he did not know existed, who has coincidentally met his former love in a nursing home. The second half of the book picks up the story from there. (Summary by Simon Evers)

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## Chapters

1. Chapter 1 (31:59): https://archive.org/download/house_of_baltazar_2208_librivox/houseofbaltazar_01_locke_64kb.mp3
2. Chapter 2 (22:38): https://archive.org/download/house_of_baltazar_2208_librivox/houseofbaltazar_02_locke_64kb.mp3
3. Chapter 3 (24:59): https://archive.org/download/house_of_baltazar_2208_librivox/houseofbaltazar_03_locke_64kb.mp3
4. Chapter 4 (26:17): https://archive.org/download/house_of_baltazar_2208_librivox/houseofbaltazar_04_locke_64kb.mp3
5. Chapter 5 (22:01): https://archive.org/download/house_of_baltazar_2208_librivox/houseofbaltazar_05_locke_64kb.mp3
6. Chapter 6 (28:09): https://archive.org/download/house_of_baltazar_2208_librivox/houseofbaltazar_06_locke_64kb.mp3
7. Chapter 7 (25:19): https://archive.org/download/house_of_baltazar_2208_librivox/houseofbaltazar_07_locke_64kb.mp3
8. Chapter 8 (30:18): https://archive.org/download/house_of_baltazar_2208_librivox/houseofbaltazar_08_locke_64kb.mp3
9. Chapter 9 (23:51): https://archive.org/download/house_of_baltazar_2208_librivox/houseofbaltazar_09_locke_64kb.mp3
10. Chapter 10 (28:50): https://archive.org/download/house_of_baltazar_2208_librivox/houseofbaltazar_10_locke_64kb.mp3
11. Chapter 11 (24:23): https://archive.org/download/house_of_baltazar_2208_librivox/houseofbaltazar_11_locke_64kb.mp3
12. Chapter 12 (23:36): https://archive.org/download/house_of_baltazar_2208_librivox/houseofbaltazar_12_locke_64kb.mp3
13. Chapter 13 (17:31): https://archive.org/download/house_of_baltazar_2208_librivox/houseofbaltazar_13_locke_64kb.mp3
14. Chaprer 14 (28:17): https://archive.org/download/house_of_baltazar_2208_librivox/houseofbaltazar_14_locke_64kb.mp3
15. Chapter 15 (28:37): https://archive.org/download/house_of_baltazar_2208_librivox/houseofbaltazar_15_locke_64kb.mp3
16. Chapter 16 (19:09): https://archive.org/download/house_of_baltazar_2208_librivox/houseofbaltazar_16_locke_64kb.mp3
17. Chapter 17 (32:55): https://archive.org/download/house_of_baltazar_2208_librivox/houseofbaltazar_17_locke_64kb.mp3
18. Chapter 18 (36:08): https://archive.org/download/house_of_baltazar_2208_librivox/houseofbaltazar_18_locke_64kb.mp3
19. Chapter 19 (21:20): https://archive.org/download/house_of_baltazar_2208_librivox/houseofbaltazar_19_locke_64kb.mp3
20. Chapter 20 (23:15): https://archive.org/download/house_of_baltazar_2208_librivox/houseofbaltazar_20_locke_64kb.mp3
21. Chapter 21 (27:43): https://archive.org/download/house_of_baltazar_2208_librivox/houseofbaltazar_21_locke_64kb.mp3
22. Chapter 22 (23:43): https://archive.org/download/house_of_baltazar_2208_librivox/houseofbaltazar_22_locke_64kb.mp3
23. Chapter 23 (31:35): https://archive.org/download/house_of_baltazar_2208_librivox/houseofbaltazar_23_locke_64kb.mp3
24. Chapter 24 (16:47): https://archive.org/download/house_of_baltazar_2208_librivox/houseofbaltazar_24_locke_64kb.mp3
25. Chapter 25 (20:52): https://archive.org/download/house_of_baltazar_2208_librivox/houseofbaltazar_25_locke_64kb.mp3