The Happiness of Hazelbrook (Dramatic Reading): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Happiness of Hazelbrook (Dramatic Reading), credited to Charlotte Grace O'Brien, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Happiness of Hazelbrook (Dramatic Reading) by Charlotte Grace O'Brien. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. About two miles from the village of Hazelbrook by the road, but a much shorter distance across the fields, stood a fine old mansion, surrounded by an extensive park. Hazelbrook Hollow, as it was called, was a very ancient place. And report said that the old hall, and part of one wing of the building, dated so far back as the time of William the Conqueror. Sir Herbert Tracy, the owner of Hazelbrook Hollow, was still in the prime of life. He had lived a great deal abroad on account of his wife's delicate health, which obliged her to winter in a warm climate. But of late, she had become so much stronger that she had already passed one winter at Hazelbrook, and had felt no ill effects from it. Sir Herbert and Lady Tracy had had several children, but they all died in their infancy, with the exception of a son and daughter. Young Herbert Tracy was in his eighteenth year, and was finishing his studies at Cambridge. His sister Mabel was younger. It was a source of great happiness to Sir Herbert and his wife to feel that they might be able to live at Hazelbrook. They were most anxious that both Herbert and Mabel should early learn to care for their poorer neighbours. Herbert Tracy was a son of whom any parent might feel proud, and little fairy-like, gentle Mabel was, as old Granny Hale called her, "the happiness of Hazelbrook." Not a cottage for miles round but was gladdened by a visit from Mabel, especially when the shadow of sickness or sorrow had fallen. - Summary Extracted from Chapter Two

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Happiness of Hazelbrook (Dramatic Reading)
• Author credits: Charlotte Grace O'Brien
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 7
• Listed recording duration: 1:58:08

Catalogue topics

• religious fiction
• dramatic reading
• christian life -- juvenile fiction
• conduct of life -- juvenile fiction
• england -- juvenile fiction

Track guide

1. 01 - Duty and Pleasure — 20:55
2. 02 - The Happiness of Hazelbrook — 11:33
3. 03 - Going to the Fair — 21:56
4. 04 - The Shadow of Death — 19:34
5. 05 - The Happy Island — 13:07
6. 06 - The Return of the Prodigal — 21:33
7. 07 - Safe at Home — 9:30

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