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Sylvia's Lovers

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  1. Monkshaven

    26:13

  2. Home from Greenland

    28:46

  3. Buying a New Cloak

    29:48

  4. Philip Hepburn

    27:56

  5. Story of the Press-Gang

    29:06

  6. The Sailor's Funeral

    39:09

  7. Tete-a-Tete - The Will

    30:16

  8. Attraction and Repulsion

    28:13

  9. The Specksioneer

    26:14

  10. A Refractory Pupil

    24:49

  11. Visions of the Future

    33:19

  12. New Year's Fete

    61:13

  13. Perplexities

    27:21

  14. Partnership

    25:51

  15. A Difficult Question

    30:55

  16. The Engagement

    26:32

  17. Rejected Warnings

    34:17

  18. Eddy in Love's Current

    26:35

  19. An Important Mission

    18:03

  20. Loved and Lost

    21:11

  21. A Rejected Suitor

    16:11

  22. Deepening Shadows

    21:45

  23. Retaliation

    27:22

  24. Brief Rejoicing

    27:37

  25. Coming Troubles

    38:04

  26. A Dreary Vigil

    28:12

  27. Gloomy Days

    27:30

  28. The Ordeal

    29:24

  29. Wedding Raiment

    34:43

  30. Happy Days

    30:06

  31. Evil Omens

    22:48

  32. Rescued from the Waves

    28:39

  33. An Apparition

    24:39

  34. A Reckless Recruit

    22:17

  35. Things Unutterable

    19:44

  36. Mysterious Tidings

    32:43

  37. Bereavement

    23:38

  38. The Recognition

    24:29

  39. Confidences

    27:54

  40. An Unexpected Messenger

    16:44

  41. The Bedesman of St. Sepulchre

    26:29

  42. A Fable at Fault

    20:17

  43. The Unknown

    23:35

  44. First Words

    20:08

  45. Saved and Lost

    34:30

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Elizabeth Gaskell called this the saddest story she ever wrote, and it earns the title. On the windswept Yorkshire coast in the 1790s, with press-gangs seizing men for the Napoleonic wars, headstrong Sylvia Robson loves the bold harpooner Charley Kinraid. Her steady cousin Philip Hepburn loves her in turn, and when he watches Kinraid dragged off by the navy, he keeps silent and lets Sylvia grieve a man she believes drowned. Out of that one withheld truth grows a marriage built on deception and a reckoning no one escapes. Gaskell grounds the heartbreak in real history and the daily texture of a whaling town, giving the tragedy a weight few of her novels reach. Free to download as a PDF or EPUB.

About the author

Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) was an English novelist whose work ranged from the industrial social novel to tender provincial comedy. Admired by Dickens, she wrote Cranford, North and South, and the first major biography of Charlotte Brontë.

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Reading time
About 14 hours
Pages
496
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Terrance Callan