The Romance of a Shop
Amy Levy
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Praised by Oscar Wilde amongst other contemporaries, Amy Levy's first novel tells the story of the four Lorimer sisters, who decide to open their own photography business after the death of their father which has left them in poverty. The novel examines the opportunities and difficulties of urban life for the "New Woman" in the late nineteenth century. Not only was Levy unusual as a female novelist in this period, but she was also from an Anglo Jewish family. - Summary by Jane Gough (5 hr 29 min)
Chapters
Chapter 1, In the Beginning | 18:47 | Read by Splinter |
Chapter 2, Friends in Need | 22:36 | Read by Splinter |
Chapter 3, Ways and Means | 12:28 | Read by Splinter |
Chapter 4, Number Twenty B | 20:56 | Read by Splinter |
Chapter 5, This Working-Day World | 14:15 | Read by Splinter |
Chapter 6, To the Rescue | 18:22 | Read by Splinter |
Chapter 7, A New Customer | 18:01 | Read by Splinter |
Chapter 8, A Distinguished Person | 18:55 | Read by Splinter |
Chapter 9, Show Sunday | 16:01 | Read by Jim Locke |
Chapter 10, Summing Up | 16:03 | Read by Jim Locke |
Chapter 11, A Confidence | 12:05 | Read by Jim Locke |
Chapter 12, Gertrude Is Anxious | 11:33 | Read by Jim Locke |
Chapter 13, A Romance | 11:53 | Read by Jim Locke |
Chapter 14, Lucy | 15:09 | Read by Jim Locke |
Chapter 15, Cressida | 13:40 | Read by Jim Locke |
Chapter 16, A Wedding | 8:55 | Read by Jim Locke |
Chapter 17, A Special Edition | 10:47 | Read by Jim Locke |
Chapter 18, Phyllis | 9:31 | Read by Jim Locke |
Chapter 19, The Sycamores | 12:44 | Read by Jim Locke |
Chapter 20, In the Sick Room | 7:52 | Read by Jim Locke |
Chapter 21, The Last Act | 6:34 | Read by Jim Locke |
Chapter 22, Hope and a Friend | 9:34 | Read by Jim Locke |
Chapter 23, A Dismissal | 8:21 | Read by Jim Locke |
Chapter 24, At Last | 10:08 | Read by Jim Locke |
Epilogue | 4:07 | Read by Jim Locke |
Reviews
Cape Codder
The gentleman who reads everything from Chapter 9 on completely ruins this book; he is positively unbearable to listen to. I understand that everyone here is a volunteer, but he should consider a different hobby - perhaps gardening. Or stamp collecting. And LibriVox needs to put some type of compassionate vetting in place to prevent thoroughly unskilled and inappropriate readers from destroying their catalog. Recordings like this one are horrible!
Use playback speed
Esther Garcia
enjoyable story and readers if playback speed is corrected to a bit faster.