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Elizabeth Gaskell: Cranford (unabridged)

Read by Clare Wille

The BBC 1 costume-drama version shouldn’t put Wille’s telling of the original in the shade. — Sunday Times More…
  • Release Date: 29th Oct 2007
  • Catalogue No: NA685012
  • Label: Naxos AudioBooks
  • Series: Classic Fiction, Complete Classics
  • Length: 7 hours 1 minute

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Contents

Elizabeth Gaskell: Cranford

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Chapter 1: Our Society

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There were one or two consequences arising...

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Captain Brown had taken a small house...

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When the trays reappeared with biscuits and wine...

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Chapter 2: The Captain

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Such was the state of things when I left Cranford...

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My next visit to Cranford was in the summer.

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That afternoon we perceived little groups in the street...

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Miss Pole, Miss Matty, and I, meanwhile...

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We were both startled when Miss Jenkyns reappeared...

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Chapter 3: A Love Affair of Long Ago

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However, it so fell out that Fanny had to leave...

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And now I come to the love affair.

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Chapter 4: A Visit to an Old Bachelor

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We had pudding before meat...

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When we came back, nothing would serve him...

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Soon after this I took my leave...

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The next day Miss Pole brought us word that Mr. Holbrook...

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Chapter 5: Old Letters

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Miss Matty undid the packet with a sigh...

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There was a great gap before any of the rector’s letters...

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I can’t quite remember the date...

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Chapter 6: Poor Peter

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Miss Matty drew herself up, and as soon as we were alone...

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Presently my mother went to my father.

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‘The next day Deborah was at home before I was myself again.’

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‘Well, my dear, it’s very foolish of me...’

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Chapter 7: Visiting

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My prophetic soul foretold a visit that afternoon...

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The spring evenings were getting bright and long...

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Presently the door was thrown wide open...

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Chapter 8: Your Ladyship

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In coming out of church, the first Sunday...

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The expenditure on dress in Cranford..

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We were all very silent at first.

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As a proof of how thoroughly we had forgotten…

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Chapter 9: Signor Brunoni

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Miss Pole was always the person...

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The next evening we were all in a gentle flutter...

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But we had not time for more conversation...

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Chapter 10: The Panic

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One afternoon, about five o’clock, we were startled...

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When Lady Glenmire came, we almost felt jealous of her.

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Miss Pole was very much inclined to install herself...

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But when the evening came...

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Still this was no confession...

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Chapter 11: Samuel Brown

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Before Miss Pole left us, Miss Matty and I...

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We were all of us far too full of the signor’s precarious state.

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‘My father once made us,’ she began...

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‘Have you been in India?’ said I, rather astonished.

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Chapter 12: Engaged to be Married

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We were sitting – Miss Matty and I – much as usual...

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Mrs Forrester surprised us in our darned caps...

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Chapter 13: Stopped Payment

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It was a very uncomfortable subject to me...

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I never saw a man’s countenance fall so suddenly...

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We inspected the fashions...

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We had neither of us much appetite for dinner...

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Chapter 14: Friends in Need

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I found Miss Matty very quiet, and not a little sad...

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Miss Matty had a few little peculiarities...

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‘Please ma’am,’ said Martha...

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The next morning, very early, I received a note from Miss Pole…

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When the ceremony had been gone through…

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I am not going to weary you with the details...

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Chapter 15: A Happy Return

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But to return to Miss Matty.

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About a year after Miss Matty set up shop...

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Martha was beginning to go about again..

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Long, long into the night far, far into the morning...

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Chapter 16: Peace to Cranford

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There had been some talk of establishing Martha and Jem...

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When I got back to Miss Matty’s...

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