Asphodel: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Asphodel, credited to Mary Elizabeth Braddon, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Asphodel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Read in English by Jim Locke; jenno; Rachel Lintern; Lynda Marie Neilson Like the Asphodel, a plant which grows far away from England, Daphne grows far away from home. In her first chance of freedom, at the age of almost 17, she finds an opportunity to forget for a while... Forget that her father, the renowned Sir Vernon Lawford, does not love her. To forget that, for some reason, nobody talks about her mother who traveled to the South of France and never returned. She can be a butcher's daughter from Oxford Street, she can control her friend's actions, she can fancy that she is in love with a man who does not even reveal his name. She returns home and faces the challenge of earning her father's love and carve a respectable place beside her beloved older half-sister. But what would she do when her past folly catch up with her? Would she find love and acceptance at last? - Summary by Stav Nisser.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Asphodel
• Author credits: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 34
• Listed recording duration: 19:50:57

Catalogue topics

• social novel

Opening tracks: first 24 of 34

1. 01 - I. ' And she was fair as is the rose in May ' — 28:37
2. 02 - II. ' And this was gladly in the Eventide ' — 26:12
3. 03 - III. ' And Volatile, as ay was his usage ' — 42:50
4. 04 - IV. ' CURTEIS she was, discrete, AND DEBONAIRE ' — 36:02
5. 05 - V. ' Thou lovest me, that wot I wel certain ' — 40:56
6. 06 - VI. ' Love maketh all to gone misway ' — 43:52
7. 07 - VII. ' His Herte bathed in a Bath of Blisse ' — 37:18
8. 08 - VIII. ' God wote that worldly Joy is sone ago ' — 35:31
9. 09 - IX. ' Of Colour pale and dead was she ' — 28:41
10. 10 - X. ' And spending Silver had he right ynow ' — 30:17
11. 11 - XI. ' Yeve me my Deth, or that I have a Shame ' — 34:22
12. 12 - XII. ' And to the Dinner faste they hem spedde ' — 36:20
13. 13 - XIII ' After my Might ful fayne wold I you plese ' — 33:24
14. 14 - XIV. ' Love is a Thing, as any Spirit, free ' — 34:21
15. 15 - XV. ' Not for your Linage, ne for your Richesse ' — 23:28
16. 16 - XVI. ' No Man may alway have Prosperitee ' — 32:34
17. 17 - XVII. ' And in my Herte wondren I began ' — 40:35
18. 18 - XVIII. ' Love wol not be constreined by Maistrie ' — 38:56
19. 19 - XIX. ' I DEME that hire HERTE WAS FUL OF Wo ' — 35:15
20. 20 - XX. ' Al sodenly she swapt adown to Ground ' — 32:37
21. 21 - XXI. ' For Wele or Wo, for Carole, or for Daunce ' — 36:33
22. 22 - XXII. ' For I WOL gladly yelden hire my Place ' — 29:17
23. 23 - XXIII. ' And COME agen, be it by Day or Night ' — 26:31
24. 24 - XXIV. ' Ay fleth the Time, it wol no Man abide ' — 33:17

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