Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

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12/22/22

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233m

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Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook.

Genre: drama

In a quiet corner of rural England, young Paul Manning begins his first job on a new railway line, commuting between the noise of industry and the calm of his relatives' farm. There he meets Cousin Phillis Holman, a gifted, well-read minister's daughter whose life is shaped by hard work, faith, and the close-knit rhythms of family. Phillis is intelligent and passionate, yet sheltered, and Paul quickly finds himself drawn into the warmth of the Holman household and the subtle tensions that come with a changing world. When an older engineer arrives, bringing wider experience and an easy charm, Paul becomes an uneasy witness to shifting affections and unspoken hopes. As the railway pushes forward, so do questions about duty, love, and the cost of awakening to feelings that cannot be neatly managed. Elizabeth Gaskell paints a tender, realistic portrait of first love, friendship, and moral responsibility, set against the contrast between pastoral tradition and modern progress, where small choices carry lasting emotional weight.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:24:38) Chapter 2

(00:54:05) Chapter 3

(01:25:47) Chapter 4

(01:51:28) Chapter 5

(02:15:40) Chapter 6

(02:35:20) Chapter 7

(03:08:15) Chapter 8

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Peace on Earth, Good Will to Dogs by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott ~ Full Audiobook [romance]

December 22, 2022

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Peace on Earth, Good Will to Dogs by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott audiobook.

Genre: romance

If you don't like Christmas stories, don't read this one!

And if you don't like dogs, I don't know just what to advise you to do!

For I warn you perfectly frankly that I am distinctly pro-dog and distinctly pro-Christmas, and would like to bring to this little story whatever whiff of fir-balsam I can cajole from the make-believe forest in my typewriter, and every glitter of tinsel, smudge of toy candle, crackle of wrapping paper, that my particular brand of brain and ink can conjure up on a single keyboard! And very large-sized dogs shall romp through every page! And the mercury shiver perpetually in the vicinity of zero! And every foot of earth be crusty-brown and bare with no white snow at all till the very last moment when you'd just about given up hope! And all the heart of the story is very,—oh very young!

For purposes of propriety and general historical authenticity there are of course parents in the story. And one or two other oldish persons. But they all go away just as early in the narrative as I can manage it.—Are obliged to go away!

Yet lest you find in this general combination of circumstances some sinister threat of audacity, let me conventionalize the story at once by opening it at that most conventional of all conventional Christmas-story hours,—the Twilight of Christmas Eve.'

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:47:45) Chapter 02

(01:24:48) Chapter 03

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Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]

December 22, 2022

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376m

Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook.

Genre: comedy

Cranford is the best-known novel of the 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published in 1851 as a serial in the magazine Household Words, which was edited by Charles Dickens.

The fictional town of Cranford is closely modelled on Knutsford in Cheshire, which Mrs Gaskell knew well. The book has little in the way of plot and is more a series of episodes in the lives of Mary Smith and her friends, Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two spinster sisters. The 'major' event in the story is the return to Cranford of their long-lost brother, Peter, which in itself is only a minor portion of the work...

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:21:52) Chapter 02

(00:51:21) Chapter 03

(01:09:08) Chapter 04

(01:30:42) Chapter 05

(01:52:54) Chapter 06

(02:16:37) Chapter 07

(02:37:21) Chapter 08

(03:02:56) Chapter 09

(03:22:27) Chapter 10