Phantom Fortune, A Novel: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Phantom Fortune, A Novel, 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 Phantom Fortune, A Novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Read in English by chocmuse; Jothi Tharavant; Lynne Thompson; Vipal Prem; Vanessa Garcia; Catharine Birdwell; Caroline Morales; Mary Herndon Bell; Atang. Lady Maulevrier was once a beautiful socialite, beloved and welcomed in London high society. But her life took a turn for the worse when her husband, whom she married only for his fortune, committed a terrible crime in India. Forty years later, she is taking care of her two granddaughters, Mary and Lesbia. She prefers Lesbia, because of her beauty. Therefore, the relationship between the sisters is tolerable at best. Mary marries the man of her dreams while Lesbia enters London society under the wing of her grandmother's faithful friend. Would she take all the advantages offered to her and find a match which would make her grandmother happy? Would Mary finally be happy? And what has Lord Maulevrier done in India which makes his wife continue to bury herself in shame? - Summary by Stav Nisser.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Phantom Fortune, A Novel
• Author credits: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 46
• Listed recording duration: 20:09:58

Catalogue topics

• love story

Opening tracks: first 24 of 46

1. 01 - Penelope — 18:38
2. 02 - Ulysses — 16:48
3. 03 - On the Wrong Road — 25:32
4. 04 - The Last Stage — 7:44
5. 05 - Forty Years After — 46:22
6. 06 - Maulevrier's Humble Friend — 16:46
7. 07 - In the Summer Morning — 14:25
8. 08 - There is Always a Skeleton — 22:18
9. 09 - A Cry in the Darkness — 27:56
10. 10 - 'O Bitterness of Things Too Sweet' — 33:03
11. 11 - 'If I Were to Do as Iseult Did' — 12:18
12. 12 - 'The Greater Cantle of the World is Lost' — 14:40
13. 13 - 'Since Painted or Not Painted All Things Shall Fade' — 36:13
14. 14 - 'Not Yet' — 19:19
15. 15 - 'Of All Men Else I Have Avoided Thee' — 19:25
16. 16 - 'Her Face Resigned to Bliss or Bale' — 15:26
17. 17 - 'And the Spring Comes Slowly Up this Way' — 28:34
18. 18 - 'And Come Agen, Be it Night or Day' — 30:55
19. 19 - The Old Man on the Fell — 16:40
20. 20 - Lady Maulevrier's Letter-Bag — 17:39
21. 21 - On the Dark Brow of Helvellyn — 33:26
22. 22 - Wiser than Lesbia — 31:57
23. 23 - 'A Young Lamb's Heart Among the Full-Grown Flocks' — 27:39
24. 24 - 'Now Nothing Left to Love or Hate' — 46:37

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