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Short Stories (All the Year Round, 1859-1863)

Gelesen von Phil Benson

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In 1859 Charles Dickens launched a new weekly journal, All the Year Round, to replace Household Words. Elizabeth Gaskell remained a prolific contributor until 1863. Her fictional contributions feature strong female characters and have a darker tone than her previous works, reflecting the fashion for Gothic fiction of the 1860s and her travels in Europe. They include two of her best known shorter works: Lois the Witch, a heartfelt story of a young English girl who becomes of a victim of the Salem witch trials, and The Grey Woman, a powerful tale of a deceived wife's flight from her husband, a nobleman who turns out to be a leader of the French 'chauffeurs'. Two of Gaskell's most complex family sagas were thinly disguised as Christmas Ghost stories: The Ghost in the Garden Room (later, The Crooked Branch) and How the First Floor Went to Crowley Castle. The Cage at Cranford is a short reprise of Gaskell's Cranford stories. Of the two documentary pieces, Select Committee on French Songs (attributed to Gaskell in 2015) appears here for the first time in a collection of Elizabeth Gaskell's work. (Phil Benson) (0 hr 28 min)

Chapters

Lois the Witch: Part the First

50:41

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Lois the Witch: Part the Second

1:11:51

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Lois the Witch: Part the Third 1

59:10

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Lois the Witch: Part the Third 2

54:28

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The Ghost in the Garden Room 1

1:04:53

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The Ghost in the Garden Room 2

54:15

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The Grey Woman: Portion the First

43:05

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The Grey Woman: Portion the Second

54:24

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The Grey Woman: Portion the Third

54:37

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Select Committee on French Songs: Sitting the First

42:04

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Select Committee on French Songs: Sitting the Second

44:48

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An Italian Institution

24:25

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The Cage at Cranford

29:37

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How the First Floor Went to Crowley Castle 1

56:04

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How the First Floor Went to Crowley Castle 2

44:16

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Bewertungen

some are boring

(3 Sterne)

Some of these stories are pretty good but a couple aren't stories and didn't hold my attention at all.

Different book however...Phil Benson is a superb reader.

(5 Sterne)

Interesting. well done to the reader

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