Cranford: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Cranford, credited to Elizabeth Gaskell, 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 Cranford, by Elisabeth Gaskell. Read by Sibella Denton. 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... (Summary by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Cranford
• Author credits: Elizabeth Gaskell
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 6:06:40

Catalogue topics

• cranford
• gaskell

Track guide

1. 01 - Our Society — 21:52
2. 02 - The Captain — 29:29
3. 03 - A Love Affair of Long Ago — 17:47
4. 04 - A Visit to an Old Bachelor — 21:34
5. 05 - Old Letters — 22:12
6. 06 - Poor Peter — 23:43
7. 07 - Visiting — 20:44
8. 08 - — 25:35
9. 09 - Signor Brunoni — 19:31
10. 10 - The Panic — 27:37
11. 11 - Samuel Brown — 22:32
12. 12 - Engaged to be Married — 16:23
13. 13 - Stopped Payment — 22:03
14. 14 - Friends in Need — 35:06
15. 15 - A Happy Return — 25:05
16. 16 - Peace to Cranford — 15:36

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