Deerbrook
Harriet Martineau
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A three volume novel, Deerbrook (1839) is a story of middle class country life with a surgeon hero.
Like the later and more famous novel Middlemarch, Deerbrook describes the life of country people in a fictional English town. The Grey family live in one of the loveliest houses in Deerbrook, but a change in their lives is going to take place... The Ibbotson sisters, Hester and Margaret, orphaned distant cousins of Mr. Grey. Like in Jane Austen's novels, we see how the sisters are trying to advance themselves. In Victorian England, the chief way for women to "advance themselves" is to marry well. But will they succeed? And if they succeed, will they be happy?(Summary by Stav Nisser and Wikipedia) (22 hr 7 min)
Chapitres
01 - An Event. | 24:35 | Lu par Arielle Lipshaw |
02 - Moonlight of Townsfolk. | 8:41 | Lu par Elli |
03 - Making Acquaintance. | 15:32 | Lu par Elli |
04 - Morning Calls. | 16:11 | Lu par Elli |
05 - The Meadows. (Part 1) | 27:48 | Lu par Chris Caron |
06 - The Meadows. (Part 2) | 22:49 | Lu par Christine Blachford |
07 - The School-Room. | 36:35 | Lu par garyday |
08 - Family Confidence. | 15:21 | Lu par garyday |
09 - Family Correspondence | 34:29 | Lu par Linda Andrus |
10 - Child’s Play. | 20:09 | Lu par Linda Andrus |
11 - A Party of Pleasure. (Part 1) | 20:56 | Lu par Rosie |
12 - A Party of Pleasure. (Part 2) | 19:59 | Lu par Rosie |
13 - Mediation. | 27:34 | Lu par Chris Caron |
14 - A Turn in the Shrubbery. | 28:37 | Lu par Linda Andrus |
15 - Sophia in the Village. | 19:02 | Lu par Linda Andrus |
16 - Preparing for Home. | 37:59 | Lu par Linda Andrus |
17 - Maria and Margaret. (Part 1) | 24:21 | Lu par Chris Caron |
18 - Maria and Margaret. (Part 2) | 20:07 | Lu par Chris Caron |
19 - Home. | 24:22 | Lu par garyday |
20 - First Hospitality. | 25:33 | Lu par Chris Caron |
21 - Grandmamma in Retreat. | 21:10 | Lu par Chris Caron |
22 - Home at "The Hopes'." | 42:55 | Lu par Chris Caron |
23 - Enderby News. | 19:33 | Lu par Chris Caron |
24 - Consciousness to the Unconscious. | 27:55 | Lu par Chris Caron |
25 - The Meadows in Winter. | 22:39 | Lu par Chris Caron |
26 - Moods of the Mind. | 19:26 | Lu par Linda Andrus |
27 - Warnings. | 32:56 | Lu par Linda Andrus |
28 - Long Walks. | 16:36 | Lu par Chris Caron |
29 - Disclosures. | 38:04 | Lu par Chris Caron |
30 - A Morning in March. | 30:34 | Lu par Chris Caron |
31 - Deerbrook Commotions. (Part 1) | 25:38 | Lu par Linda Andrus |
32 - Deerbrook Commotions. (Part 2) | 21:40 | Lu par Linda Andrus |
33 - Deerbrook Commotions. (Part 3) | 25:55 | Lu par Linda Andrus |
34 - Coming to an Understanding. | 12:01 | Lu par Chris Caron |
35 - Condolence. | 30:36 | Lu par Chris Caron |
36 - Keeping Sunday. | 23:11 | Lu par Chris Caron |
37 - Going to Rest. | 15:53 | Lu par Chris Caron |
38 - Moving Onward. | 26:41 | Lu par Chris Caron |
39 - Old and Young. | 26:33 | Lu par Chris Caron |
40 - Boating. (Part 1) | 31:02 | Lu par garyday |
41 - Boating. (Part 2) | 33:03 | Lu par garyday |
42 - The Next Day. (Part 1) | 24:48 | Lu par garyday |
43 - The Next Day. (Part 2) | 23:16 | Lu par garyday |
44 - The Conqueror. | 12:31 | Lu par Chris Caron |
45 - The Victims. | 36:43 | Lu par Chris Caron |
46 - The Long Nights. (Part 1) | 19:20 | Lu par Chris Caron |
47 - The Long Nights. (Part 2) | 20:55 | Lu par Chris Caron |
48 - Lightsome Days. (Part 1) | 23:46 | Lu par garyday |
49 - Lightsome Days. (Part 2) | 20:08 | Lu par garyday |
50 - Deerbrook in Shadow. | 35:47 | Lu par Chris Caron |
51 - Church-Going. | 15:46 | Lu par garyday |
52 - Working Round. | 26:17 | Lu par Chris Caron |
53 - Late Religion. | 15:52 | Lu par garyday |
54 - Rest of the Placable. | 15:39 | Lu par garyday |
55 - Deerbrook in Sunshine. | 22:00 | Lu par garyday |
Critiques
can not understand reader





jaded_grl
chapter one was very good. but i could not understand much of what the reader said in chapter two because of her very strong accent. and when i realized she read more chapters i had to give up. i miss so much information from her accent that i would be lost trying to follow the story.





Kim B
The story is really good but the main reader’s mispronouncing common words every other sentence is really grating. If he’d have pulled out a dictionary he’d have been fine.





A LibriVox Listener
Readers throughout the entire novel make this classic inaccessible. So disappointing.





josamtess
Could not understand readers were they speaking English?