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North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ~ Full Audiobook [drama]
Classic Audiobook Collection
12/22/22
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North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook.
Genre: drama
Set in Victorian England, North and South is the story of Margaret Hale, a young woman whose life is turned upside down when her family relocates to northern England. As an outsider from the agricultural south, Margaret is initially shocked by the aggressive northerners of the dirty, smoky industrial town of Milton. But as she adapts to her new home, she defies social conventions with her ready sympathy and defense of the working poor. Her passionate advocacy leads her to repeatedly clash with charismatic mill owner John Thornton over his treatment of his workers. While Margaret denies her growing attraction to him, Thornton agonizes over his foolish passion for her, in spite of their heated disagreements. As tensions mount between them, a violent unionization strike explodes in Milton, leaving everyone to deal with the aftermath in the town and in their personal lives.
Elizabeth Gaskell serialized North and South between September 1854 and January 1855 in Charles Dickens’s magazine Household Words. Upon its publication, Gaskell established herself as a novelist capable of serious discourse on social responsibility and advocacy for change in defiance of established authority.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:25:19) Chapter 02
(00:44:09) Chapter 03
(01:06:59) Chapter 04
(01:33:01) Chapter 05
(02:02:25) Chapter 06
(02:17:21) Chapter 07
(02:36:06) Chapter 08
(02:59:07) Chapter 09
(03:08:58) Chapter 10
(03:29:29) Chapter 11
(03:47:35) Chapter 12
(04:01:13) Chapter 13
(04:17:29) Chapter 14
(04:31:13) Chapter 15
(05:09:16) Chapter 16
(05:29:20) Chapter 17
(05:49:54) Chapter 18
(06:10:34) Chapter 19
(06:39:34) Chapter 20
(07:03:01) Chapter 21
(07:23:16) Chapter 22
(07:57:52) Chapter 23
(08:15:47) Chapter 24
(08:30:55) Chapter 25
(08:58:14) Chapter 26
(09:11:48) Chapter 27
(09:27:10) Chapter 28
(10:10:45) Chapter 29
(10:25:34) Chapter 30
(10:56:38) Chapter 31
(11:21:23) Chapter 32
(11:33:00) Chapter 33
(11:45:58) Chapter 34
(11:58:14) Chapter 35
(12:34:34) Chapter 36
(13:01:12) Chapter 37
(13:25:29) Chapter 38
(13:57:45) Chapter 39
(14:20:42) Chapter 40
(14:53:15) Chapter 41
(15:22:52) Chapter 42
(15:49:49) Chapter 43
(16:11:30) Chapter 44
(16:35:50) Chapter 45
(16:43:03) Chapter 46
(17:29:33) Chapter 47
(17:42:24) Chapter 48
(17:57:22) Chapter 49
(18:12:15) Chapter 50
(18:37:11) Chapter 51
(18:53:20) Chapter 52
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Mr. Harrison’s Confessions by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]
December 22, 2022
•213m
Mr. Harrison’s Confessions by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook.
Genre: comedy
It is asserted that the inspiration for Elizabeth Gaskell's marvellous stories of Cranford was her childhood home of Knutsford, a small town in Cheshire and to where she returned for a while as a young woman. This assertion is born out by an essay she wrote in 1849 entitled The Last Generation in England, in which she writes about 'The town in which I once resided ...'. There can be little doubt when reading this that it provided her with the template for Cranford.
In 1851 the year she began to write Cranford, she also wrote a novella entitled Mr. Harrison's Confessions. It describes the life of a country doctor in a small provincial town. Mrs. Gaskell's model for this town could also only have been Knutsford which she knew and loved so well. The story revolves around the arrival in the town of a young doctor and the attempts of the ladies of the town to place his status within their society and of course to find him a suitable wife. It is often thought of as a prequel to Cranford
Both of these pieces together with the novels, My Lady Ludlow and Cranford were used by the BBC to create the Television series Cranford in 2007.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 1
(00:22:14) Chapter 2
(00:53:34) Chapter 3
(01:11:17) Chapter 4
(01:36:12) Chapter 5
(01:57:37) Chapter 6
(02:17:14) Chapter 7
(02:41:36) Chapter 8
(03:03:08) Chapter 9
(03:25:04) Chapter 10
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Round the Sofa by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ~ Full Audiobook [family]
December 23, 2022
•989m
Round the Sofa by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook.
Genre: family
Round the Sofa (1859), is a book of stories by the lady that Charles Dickens called his “dear Scheherazade” due to her skill as a story teller. That Lady was Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell (North and South, Wives and Daughters, Cranford etc.). Mrs. Gaskell begins with Round the Sofa, a short story which she uses as a device to stitch together six previously published stories into a single work. It introduces us to a set of characters who take turns to recount stories to one another during their weekly soirée. My Lady Ludlow tells the story of the widowed, aristocratic Lady Ludlow and her fierce resistance to change. It is told through the eyes of one of her young charges. Incidentally, it was one of the books used to create the TV series Cranford. An Accursed Race is actually an essay about a persecuted minority group, the Cagots in Western France. The Doom of the Griffiths. A Gothic short story about a cursed family and set in Wales. Half a Life-Time Ago. A novella set in the Wiltshire Dales. The Poor Clare. A Ghostly short story! The Half Brothers. A sad short story about brotherly love and a sheep-dog dog named Lassie!
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:17:53) Chapter 02
(00:57:45) Chapter 03
(01:33:11) Chapter 04
(02:04:01) Chapter 05
(02:34:50) Chapter 06
(03:07:26) Chapter 07
(03:41:27) Chapter 08
(04:15:29) Chapter 09
(04:53:08) Chapter 10
(05:27:49) Chapter 11
(05:59:36) Chapter 12
(06:34:26) Chapter 13
(07:18:43) Chapter 14
(07:55:55) Chapter 15
(08:36:36) Chapter 16
(09:25:36) Chapter 17
(10:18:31) Chapter 18
(11:07:45) Chapter 19
(11:47:06) Chapter 20
(12:00:15) Chapter 21
(12:30:35) Chapter 22
(12:44:39) Chapter 23
(13:11:03) Chapter 24
(13:44:40) Chapter 25
(14:26:17) Chapter 26
(15:05:11) Chapter 27
(15:43:42) Chapter 28
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