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    Cousin Phillis
    Cousin Phillis
    Cousin Phillis
    Audiobook3 hours

    Cousin Phillis

    Written by Elizabeth Gaskell

    Narrated by Joe Marsh

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Cousin Phillis – a miniature masterpiece – is set in the 1840s, when the coming of the railway was changing the face of England, and quiet rural communities, coming into contact with the outside world, were changed for ever. The story focuses on the effect these changes have on a naïve country girl, Phillis, as she encounters love, with all its pains and pleasures, for the first time.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNaxos Audiobooks
    Release dateMay 1, 2010
    ISBN9789629549619
    Author

    Elizabeth Gaskell

    Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) was a British novelist and short-story writer. Her works were Victorian social histories across many strata of society. Her most famous works include Mary Barton, Cranford, North and South, and Wives and Daughters.

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    • 1/5

      Sep 8, 2024

      Not a review of the book, which is great—but the recording ends too soon. It cuts off abruptly.
    • 2/5

      Mar 19, 2024

      An older man recounts an instance in his youth when he became fast friends with a local pious family. But in introducing them to his charming boss, he inadvertently causes teenaged Phillis romantic agony. Like Gaskell's other work, this is a slow-paced tale focused on the minutia of a small community's daily lives and feelings. Unlike the other work I've read by her, this has a section in which a woman swoons after hearing her crush has gotten married, and then nearly dies of brain fever (whatever that might be) and stays near death for months. It was so melodramatic and inexplicable to me that it tainted my enjoyment of the earlier section of the novel.
    • 2/5

      Mar 19, 2024

      I've never read a book that ended so suddenly....seems weird and unfinished.
    • 4/5

      Mar 19, 2024

      It took me a little while to get in-sync with the language of this book, never having read anything by Elizabeth Gaskell before and it originally being published in 1864. But once I discovered the secret, that is, to slow down my reading speed and let the words, and the vocabulary start to work their magic, I was able to sit back and thoroughly enjoy this lovely book. Back in the day, of no technology as we now know it, words were the way of things. People spoke slower, used many more words and seemed to think more carefully about how they said things…... and it's fantastic once you lose yourself to it!
    • 4/5

      Mar 19, 2024

      Elizabeth Klett gives another wonderful narration in this free Librivox recording. The story itself I found a bit dated: brain fever? I wonder what illness this actually was! I liked Phillis (this is the spelling used in my Project Gutenberg Kindle edition) and her father.
    • 4/5

      Mar 19, 2024

      The recording finishes one chapter short of the end. I hope they fix it