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Sylvia's Lovers

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(4,464 Sterne; 70 Bewertungen)

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 has to leave without a word... (Summary from Wikipedia) (17 hr 18 min)

Chapters

01 - Monkshaven

22:15

Read by Sonja

02 - Home From Greenland

22:27

Read by Angel5

03 - Buying a New Cloak

23:16

Read by Angel5

04 - Philip Hepburn

21:32

Read by Cate Mackenzie

05 - Story of The Press-Gang

24:51

Read by Angel5

06 - The Sailor's Funeral

30:15

Read by Angel5

07 - Tête-à-tête - The Will

25:31

Read by Cate Mackenzie

08 - Attraction and Repulsion

22:07

Read by Amanda Martin Sandino

09 - The Specksioneer

20:18

Read by Amanda Martin Sandino

10 - The Refractory Pupil

20:15

Read by Cate Mackenzie

11 - Visions of The Future

31:06

Read by Cath Garde

12 - New Year's Fete; Part 1

23:16

Read by Amanda Martin Sandino

13 - New Year's Fete; Part 2

24:37

Read by Linda Velwest

14 - Perplexities

21:11

Read by Angel5

15 - Partnership

22:01

Read by Cate Mackenzie

16 - A Difficult Question

30:43

Read by Cath Garde

17 - The Engagement

21:46

Read by Lauren McCullough

18 - Rejected Warnings

27:24

Read by Lauren McCullough

19 - Eddy In Love's Current

23:00

Read by Cate Mackenzie

20 - An Important Mission

13:28

Read by Elizabeth Klett

21 - Loved and Lost

16:58

Read by Elizabeth Klett

22 - The Rejected Suitor

13:06

Read by Elizabeth Klett

23 - Deepening Shadows

17:13

Read by Cate Mackenzie

24 - Retaliation

22:00

Read by Angel5

25 - Brief Rejoicing

25:18

Read by Zarnaz

26 - Coming Troubles

30:17

Read by Angel5

27 - A Dreary Vigil

23:01

Read by Angel5

28 - Gloomy Days

24:20

Read by Cate Mackenzie

29 - The Ordeal

23:22

Read by Angel5

30 - Wedding Raiment

32:28

Read by LilyAnne

31 - Happy Days

24:37

Read by Angel5

32 - Evil Omens

18:46

Read by Cate Mackenzie

33 - Rescued From The Waves

22:16

Read by Angel5

34 - An Apparition

20:00

Read by Angel5

35 - A Reckless Recruit

19:03

Read by Cate Mackenzie

36 - Things Unutterable

19:03

Read by Diana Majlinger

37 - Mysterious Tidings

27:28

Read by Angel5

38 - Bereavement

20:56

Read by Cate Mackenzie

39 - The Recognition

24:20

Read by LilyAnne

40 - Confidences

23:19

Read by LilyAnne

41 - An Unexpected Messenger

15:13

Read by Diana Majlinger

42 - The Bedesman of St. Sepulchre

21:28

Read by Angel5

43 - A Fable At Fault

15:50

Read by Cate Mackenzie

44 - The Unknown

19:33

Read by Angel5

45 - First Words

17:16

Read by Cate Mackenzie

46 - Saved and Lost

30:16

Read by Linda Velwest

Bewertungen

(5 Sterne)

Elizabeth Gaskell is so talented at creating complicated characters who you both love and hate. Her stories have the way of appealing to such common experiences as loss and confusion and relationships of families, including the way that the feelings inthese things change with passing time. Sylvia’s Lovers is a sad story in the opinions of modern readers but when compared to her peers like Dickens, are perfectly normal in their events. Having just read her other books, this is far more heart wrenching but just as splendidly written.

Unrequited Love

(5 Sterne)

Sylvia's Lovers is an excellent story and the narrators do it justice. As another reviewer stated I too do not like narration by different readers in the same book but it was very well done here. Highly enjoyable and the story, which lagged at first, became so very engaging! Lost a few nights of sleep because I could not stop listening and wanted to know what happened next. Thank you LibriVox and especially the narrators.

wonderful twisted tale of love

(5 Sterne)

first let me praise the readers. i often avoid books on librivox when each chapter is read by a different person. but many of the readers for this book did a fine job! only a few chapters had readers that only did a so-so job, sadly the last chapter was one of those readers and if kind of lost all the emotion because the character voices she used were awkward. but overall good audio and recommended! the story follows a girls in her early teens through her early twenties. her love of a sailor, and her cousins love for her, the twists and turns that leave so many unhappy in/out of love. the story is not overly sappy, so i think many men will enjoy it just as much as women. but the down side was that sin and justice were misused to explain the ending. i find some faults with the way the author twisted the bible, but in all the the characters followed the bibles course for what happens when serious problems arise in marriage - but events of life are not punishments by god. romans6:23 death itself is punishment

Wish I was a member of a book club to have people to discuss it

(5 Sterne)

Wonderful novel but what does this author have against happy endings? There were just so many opportunities for Sylvia to reform her selfish ways but of of course that did not occur. Sad because I think most women yearn for a husband like Philip. This story reminds me of the metaphor 'don't cast pearls before swines', Poor Hester! Poor Philip!

Fine story, good enough recording

(4 Sterne)

It was a bit distracting to have changing narrators, but as it is a free copy I don't feel it is really my place to complain and I followed along just fine. As for the story, not my favorite, but it's the kind of story I suspect could grow on me over time and I did enjoy it more than I thought I was going to at first.

A mixed pleasure

(3 Sterne)

i am so grateful to the volunteers who read for us....thank you all. this story, very much of a bygone era, would have benefited from having a single reader and my sympathies go to those trying an accent which I would never have been able to attain. so a mixed experience but one which pays off if one sticks with it.

Long but lovely

(4 Sterne)

A very descriptive novel with a lot of personal growth and character development. An abrupt ending without a great deal of closure was such a shame to such a drawn out novel but I really enjoyed listening to this book ❤️

Quite a story - Talented author

(5 Sterne)

Interesting, seems true to life but sad story. Readers thank you for reading with clarity and accents that bring the story alive.