Sylvia's Lovers: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Sylvia's Lovers, 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 Sylvia's Lovers, by Elizabeth Gaskell. The novel begins in the 1790s in the coastal town of Monkshaven. Sylvia Robson lives with her parents on a farm, and is loved by her rather dull Quaker cousin Philip. She, however, meets and falls in love with Charlie Kinraid, a sailor on a whaling vessel, and they become engaged, although few people know of the engagement. But Charlie gets press-ganged and have to leave without a word... (Summary from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Sylvia's Lovers
• Author credits: Elizabeth Gaskell
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 46
• Listed recording duration: 17:18:46

Catalogue topics

• romance
• fiction
• gaskell

Opening tracks: first 24 of 46

1. 01 - Monkshaven — 22:15
2. 02 - Home From Greenland — 22:28
3. 03 - Buying A New Cloak — 23:16
4. 04 - Philip Hepburn — 21:33
5. 05 - Story of the Press Gang — 24:52
6. 06 - The Sailor's Funeral — 30:15
7. 07 - Tête-à-tête - The Will — 25:32
8. 08 - Attraction and Repulsion — 22:07
9. 09 - The Specksioneer — 20:18
10. 10 - The Refractory Pupil — 20:16
11. 11 - Visions of the Future — 31:06
12. 12 - New Year's Fete; Part 1 — 23:16
13. 13 - New Year's Fete: Part 2 — 24:37
14. 14 - Perplexities — 21:11
15. 15 - Partnership — 22:02
16. 16 - A Difficult Question — 30:43
17. 17 - The Engagement — 21:47
18. 18 - Rejected Warnings — 27:25
19. 19 - Eddy In Love's Current — 23:00
20. 20 - An Important Mission — 13:28
21. 21 - Loved and Lost — 16:58
22. 22 - A Rejected Suitor — 13:06
23. 23 - Deepening Shadows — 17:13
24. 24 - Retaliation — 22:00

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