North and South2: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

North and South2, credited to Elizabeth Cleghorn 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 North and South, by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. The book is a social novel that tries to show the industrial North and its conflicts in the mid-19th century as seen by an outsider, a socially sensitive lady from the South. The story: the heroine, Margaret Hale, is the daughter of a Nonconformist minister who moves to the fictional industrial town of Milton after leaving the Church of England. The town is modeled after Manchester, where Gaskell lived as the wife of a Unitarian minister. The change of lifestyle shocks Margaret, who sympathizes deeply with the poverty of the workers and comes into conflict with John Thornton, the owner of a local mill, also a friend of her father. After an encounter with a group of strikers, in which Margaret attempts to protect Thornton from the violence, he proposes to her, telling her that he is in love with her; she rejects his proposal of marriage, mainly because she sees it as if it were out of obligation for what she had done. Later, he sees her with her fugitive brother, whom he mistakes for another suitor, and this creates further unresolved conflict. Margaret, once she believes she has lost his affection, begins to see him in another light, and eventually they are reunited. Wikipedia.

Recording facts

• Recording title: North and South2
• Author credits: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 52
• Listed recording duration: 18:31:36

Catalogue topics

• north
• south
• gaskell
• fiction

Opening tracks: first 24 of 52

1. 01 - Haste to the Wedding — 27:29
2. 02 - Roses and Thorns — 17:28
3. 03 - The More Haste The Worst Speed — 29:18
4. 04 - Doubts And Difficulties — 31:11
5. 05 - Desicion — 26:29
6. 06 - Farewell — 13:56
7. 07 - New Scenes and Faces — 17:22
8. 08 - Home Sickness — 26:11
9. 09 - Dressing for Tea — 10:44
10. 10 - Wrought Iron and Gold — 22:32
11. 11 - First Impressions — 17:25
12. 12 - Morning Calls — 12:23
13. 13 - A Soft Breeze in a Sultry Place — 15:03
14. 14 - The Mutiny — 13:05
15. 15 - Masters and Men — 32:36
16. 16 - The Shadow of Death — 22:40
17. 17 - What Is A Strike? — 22:46
18. 18 - Likes and Dislikes — 17:43
19. 19 - Angel Visits — 27:22
20. 20 - Men and Gentlemen — 20:36
21. 21 - The Dark Night — 18:38
22. 22 - A Blow and Its Consequences — 33:31
23. 23 - Mistakes — 17:45
24. 24 - Mistakes Cleared Up — 14:33

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