Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]

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

(03:50:04) Chapter 11

(04:12:36) Chapter 12

(04:28:58) Chapter 13

(04:51:01) Chapter 14

(05:26:06) Chapter 15

(05:51:11) Chapter 16

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