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Ruth by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ~ Full Audiobook [drama]
Classic Audiobook Collection
12/23/22
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Ruth by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook.
Genre: drama
The book is a social novel, dealing with Victorian views about sin and illegitimacy. It is a surprisingly compassionate portrayal of a 'fallen woman', a type of person normally outcast from respectable society. The title of the novel refers to the main character Ruth Hilton, an orphaned young seamstress who is seduced and then abandoned by gentleman Henry Bellingham. Ruth, pregnant and alone, is taken in by a minister and his sister. They conceal her single status under the pretense of widowhood in order to protect her child from the social stigma of illegitimacy. Ruth goes on to gain a respectable position in society as a governess, which is threatened by the return of Bellingham and the revelation of her secret.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:27:39) Chapter 02
(01:13:49) Chapter 03
(01:47:58) Chapter 04
(02:29:35) Chapter 05
(02:50:08) Chapter 06
(03:11:15) Chapter 07
(03:31:27) Chapter 08
(03:59:24) Chapter 09
(04:08:51) Chapter 10
(04:22:20) Chapter 11
(04:56:32) Chapter 12
(05:23:12) Chapter 13
(05:53:23) Chapter 14
(06:15:54) Chapter 15
(06:38:11) Chapter 16
(07:12:06) Chapter 17
(07:43:35) Chapter 18
(08:09:33) Chapter 19
(08:44:27) Chapter 20
(09:36:18) Chapter 21
(10:12:42) Chapter 22
(10:49:18) Chapter 23
(11:48:18) Chapter 24
(12:31:47) Chapter 25
(13:24:32) Chapter 26
(13:59:35) Chapter 27
(14:52:30) Chapter 28
(15:26:05) Chapter 29
(15:58:48) Chapter 30
(16:37:08) Chapter 31
(17:00:00) Chapter 32
(17:17:48) Chapter 33
(17:38:06) Chapter 34
(18:07:48) Chapter 35
(18:20:27) Chapter 36
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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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Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ~ Full Audiobook [family]
December 23, 2022
•1531m
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook.
Genre: family
If you like Jane Austen, you will probably like this book!
Mrs. Gaskell, as she was often referred to, is considered one of the greatest British novelists of the Victorian era. She was one of the earliest novelists ever to use dialect in her works, finding often that no word but the vernacular would suffice to convey the meaning she wanted to achieve. She was the author of The Life of Charlotte Brontë, a much-acclaimed and sometimes-reviled biography of her friend and peer.
Wives and Daughters revolves around Molly Gibson, only daughter of a widowed doctor living in a provincial English town in the 1830s. The novel was first published in the Cornhill Magazine as a serial from August 1864 to January 1866. When Mrs Gaskell died suddenly in 1865, it was not quite complete, and the last section was written by Frederick Greenwood.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:21:02) Chapter 02
(00:57:50) Chapter 03
(01:14:57) Chapter 04
(01:44:20) Chapter 05
(02:13:26) Chapter 06
(02:46:11) Chapter 07
(03:03:09) Chapter 08
(03:34:24) Chapter 09
(03:54:54) Chapter 10
(04:37:53) Chapter 11
(05:15:03) Chapter 12
(05:34:31) Chapter 13
(05:59:29) Chapter 14
(06:30:17) Chapter 15
(06:49:00) Chapter 16
(07:10:49) Chapter 17
(07:36:34) Chapter 18
(08:06:48) Chapter 19
(08:33:11) Chapter 20
(08:53:34) Chapter 21
(09:25:22) Chapter 22
(09:50:23) Chapter 23
(10:10:21) Chapter 24
(10:25:01) Chapter 25
(10:44:23) Chapter 26
(11:25:09) Chapter 27
(11:42:27) Chapter 28
(12:10:56) Chapter 29
(12:42:59) Chapter 30
(13:02:38) Chapter 31
(13:23:37) Chapter 32
(13:54:59) Chapter 33
(14:11:21) Chapter 34
(14:31:39) Chapter 35
(15:04:23) Chapter 36
(15:18:11) Chapter 37
(15:49:52) Chapter 38
(16:14:09) Chapter 39
(16:42:19) Chapter 40
(17:01:52) Chapter 41
(17:29:56) Chapter 42
(17:51:10) Chapter 43
(18:14:42) Chapter 44
(18:38:09) Chapter 45
(18:59:39) Chapter 46
(19:20:27) Chapter 47
(19:47:43) Chapter 48
(20:10:21) Chapter 49
(20:31:48) Chapter 50
(21:01:12) Chapter 51
(21:22:21) Chapter 52
(21:52:42) Chapter 53
(22:18:54) Chapter 54
(22:45:48) Chapter 55
(23:08:01) Chapter 56
(23:27:32) Chapter 57
(23:50:39) Chapter 58
(24:13:54) Chapter 59
(24:36:15) Chapter 60
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