A Fair Mystery: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
A Fair Mystery by Charlotte M Brame: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 86 original MP3 tracks, 19:11:41 running time and a link to listen.
A Fair Mystery, credited to Charlotte M Brame, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of A Fair Mystery by Charlotte M Brame. Read in English by Arie; Elanor Sakamoto; Gabriela Cowan; Lynne Thompson; Marsha Payne; Mike Pelton; Petra; SamR; Sandra Estenson (Written by Charlotte M. Brame under the pen name Bertha M. Clay.) Honest Mark Brace is about to lose his farm, land of his ancestors, home to his wife, Patty, and small daughter, Mattie, when out of a dark and stormy night comes the answer to his prayers. A tiny babe, tender and fair, left on their doorstep with a note asking Mark and Patty to bring the child up as their own, to raise it to be good, like themselves, and to accept for their troubles a hundred pounds a year. The farm is saved, and all is peaceful for a while as the beautiful baby, Doris, grows into an even more beautiful child. But as she grows, so too grows her awareness of her own loveliness, of her difference from the humble farmers who raise her. Doris hungers for luxury, jewels and velvet, bright fetes and ardent admirers. Confident that her ethereal beauty and native wit will bring her everything she deserves, she focuses her energies on obtaining these things and sets in motion a chain of events that will break hearts, rip at the mystery surrounding her birth, and culminate in the greatest tragedy of them all. A story of love in many forms, A Fair Mystery is part romance, part tragedy, and part social commentary, one which asks us to pause a moment and reflect on what it is that is truly worth having in this life. (Summary by Elanor Sakamoto)
Recording facts
- Recording title: A Fair Mystery
- Author credits: Charlotte M Brame
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 86
- Listed recording duration: 19:11:41
Opening tracks: first 24 of 86
- 01 - A Voice and a Face in the Night. — 11:29
- 02 - A Fairy Changeling. — 11:30
- 03 - A Daughter of Patricians. — 10:43
- 04 - The Marble Psyche. — 7:22
- 05 - 'I want to be just like you.' — 7:55
- 06 - Faithless and Debonair. — 7:21
- 07 - All, All is Vanity. — 10:38
- 08 - The Young Coquette. — 14:00
- 09 - Poet and Gentleman. — 10:42
- 10 - A Wasted Warning. — 10:17
- 11 - The Foster-Sisters. — 9:35
- 12 - Beauty Becomes Immortal. — 12:31
- 13 - 'Faithless and debonair.' — 11:07
- 14 - 'I will be true--forever.' — 12:04
- 15 - A Betrothal Day. — 11:36
- 16 - A Shining Memory. — 11:15
- 17 - A Woman Averse to Marriage. — 14:39
- 18 - A Prospective Pleasure for Doris. — 14:20
- 19 - 'They tell me, child, that you are really promised in marriage.' — 16:19
- 20 - Her Eyes Invited Him. — 17:08
- 21 - 'I shall never be a model woman.' — 11:31
- 22 - The Coquette and the Man of the World. — 10:28
- 23 - An Impassioned Wooing. — 11:53
- 24 - The False Lips of Woman. — 11:08
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