Two Sides To Every Question: From A South Australian Standpoint: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Two Sides To Every Question: From A South Australian Standpoint, credited to Maud Jean Franc, 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 Two Sides To Every Question: From A South Australian Standpoint, by Maud Jean Franc. Read by kirstyl. 'Two Sides to Every Question’: From a South Australian Standpoint is a meditation on poverty, wealth, and social aspiration set in the free settlement of Adelaide in pre-Federation Australia. The novel follows the lives of a cast of characters from different social classes as they negotiate the twists and turns in their respective fortunes. The newly-bereaved Alton family—an invalid widow and her two grown children, Tom and Nettie—sell their rural property and move to the slovenly back streets of the inner-city; they are determined to hold onto their dignity and values as they turn to earning a living for the first time. The wealthy Clinton family runs the stock supply business where Tom finds employment as a clerk. Tom’s boss, Robert Clinton, supplements his business income through trading mining shares. His financial success ensures his wife and daughters, Elsie and Lily, have access to the higher echelons of colonial society. Meanwhile, the Clintons' cousin, Arthur Delta, arrives from England to take a position in his uncle’s business. Arthur's mother has called on her brother's charity to help her family in their time of need. When Arthur and Elsie fall in love, the scene is set as he attempts to build his fortune to secure her father’s favour and, so, her hand in marriage. (Summary by kirstyl)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Two Sides To Every Question: From A South Australian Standpoint
• Author credits: Maud Jean Franc
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 4:50:19

Catalogue topics

• women
• marriage
• Australia
• poverty
• clothing and textile workers.

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter I - The Little House in the Back Street — 15:34
2. 02 - Chapter II - The Home of Wealth — 17:17
3. 03 - Chapter III - Castles in the Air — 17:53
4. 04 - Chapter IV - Boarding-House Experiences — 15:38
5. 05 - Chapter V - Elsie's Influence — 16:47
6. 06 - Chapter VI - Arthur Delta's Side of the Question — 12:34
7. 07 - Chapter VII - Flitting — 16:01
8. 08 - Chapter VIII - A Prize In The Lottery — 14:24
9. 09 - Chapter IX - Wealth Versus Poverty — 12:22
10. 10 - Chapter X - Temptation — 13:47
11. 11 - Chapter XI - Uncertainty's Cares — 15:29
12. 12 - Chapter XII - Nettie's Neighbours — 14:02
13. 13 - Chapter XIII - A Dark Side Of The Question — 13:20
14. 14 - Chapter XIV - Tom's Advice — 13:15
15. 15 - Chapter XV - The Delanys' Side Of The Question — 13:28
16. 16 - Chapter XVI - Farewell To Clement House — 11:24
17. 17 - Chapter XVII - Bitter Disappointment — 16:47
18. 18 - Chapter XVIII - A Moment's Delerium — 11:27
19. 19 - Chapter XIX - The Marriage At Clinton Park — 13:19
20. 20 - Chapter XX - Saved As By Fire — 15:37

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