Cranford (version 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Cranford (version 2), 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 (version 2) by Elizabeth Gaskell. Read by NoelBadrian Cranford is set in a small market town populated largely by a number of respectable ladies. It tells of their secrets and foibles, their gossip and their romances as they face the challenges of dealing with new inhabitants to their society and innovations to their settled existence. It was first published between 1851 and 1853 as episodes in Charles Dickens’ Journal Household Words. Appended to this recording is a short sequel, The Cage at Cranford, written ten years later and published in the journal All the Year Round. In a letter to Mrs. Gaskell, Charlotte Bronte wrote: “Thank you for your letter, it was as pleasant as a quiet chat, as welcome as spring showers, as reviving as a friend’s visit; in short, it was very like a page of Cranford.”... Cranford is a genteel and humorous look at Victorian society by Elizabeth Gaskell, and is quite a change from her more gritty novels like Mary Barton or North and South. (Summary by Noel Badrian)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Cranford (version 2)
• Author credits: Elizabeth Gaskell
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 8:54:56

Catalogue topics

• fiction

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 36:25
2. 01 - Chapter 1 - Our Society — 26:08
3. 02 - Chapter 2 - The Captain — 36:11
4. 03 - Chapter 3 - A Love Affair of Long Ago — 22:30
5. 04 - Chapter 4 - Visit to an Old Bachelor — 27:22
6. 05 - Chapter 5 - Old Letters — 27:45
7. 06 - Chapter 6 - Poor Peter — 29:44
8. 07 - Chapter 7 - Visiting — 25:15
9. 08 - Chapter 8 - Your Ladyship — 32:37
10. 09 - Chapter 9 - Signor Brunoni — 24:56
11. 10 - Chapter 10 - The Panic — 35:10
12. 11 - Chapter 11 - Samuel Brown — 28:43
13. 12 - Chapter 12 - Engaged to Be Married — 21:06
14. 13 - Chapter 13 - Stopped Payment — 30:21
15. 14 - Chapter 14 - Friends in Need — 45:51
16. 15 - Chapter 15 - A Happy Return — 34:02
17. 16 - Chapter 16 - Peace to Cranford — 20:37
18. 17 - The Cage at Cranford — 30:13

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