Deerbrook: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Deerbrook, credited to Harriet Martineau, 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 DEERBROOK, by HARRIET MARTINEAU. Like the later and more famous novel Middlemarch, Deerbrook describes the life of country people in a fictional English town. The Grey family live in one of the loveliest houses in Deerbrook, but a change in their lives is going to take place... The Ibbotson sisters, Hester and Margaret, orphaned distant cousins of Mr. Grey. Like in Jane Austen's novels, we see how the sisters are trying to advance themselves. In Victorian England, the chief way for women to "advance themselves" is to marry well. But will they succeed? And if they succeed, will they be happy?(Summary by Stav Nisser and Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Deerbrook
• Author credits: Harriet Martineau
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 55
• Listed recording duration: 22:07:29

Catalogue topics

• fiction

Opening tracks: first 24 of 55

1. 01 - An Event. — 24:36
2. 02 - Moonlight of Townsfolk. — 8:42
3. 03 - Making Acquaintance. — 15:32
4. 04 - Morning Calls. — 16:12
5. 05 - The Meadows. (Part 1) — 27:48
6. 06 - The Meadows. (Part 2) — 22:50
7. 07 - The School-Room. — 36:35
8. 08 - Family Confidence. — 15:22
9. 09 - Family Correspondence — 34:29
10. 10 - Child's Play. — 20:09
11. 11 - A Party of Pleasure. (Part 1) — 20:56
12. 12 - A Party of Pleasure. (Part 2) — 19:59
13. 13 - Mediation. — 27:34
14. 14 - A Turn in the Shrubbery. — 28:38
15. 15 - Sophia in the Village. — 19:03
16. 16 - Preparing for Home. — 37:59
17. 17 - Maria and Margaret. (Part 1) — 24:22
18. 18 - Maria and Margaret. (Part 2) — 20:08
19. 19 - Home. — 24:22
20. 20 - First Hospitality. — 25:33
21. 21 - Grandmamma in Retreat. — 21:10
22. 22 - Home at — 42:56
23. 23 - Enderby News. — 19:34
24. 24 - Consciousness to the Unconscious. — 27:55

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