The Moorland Cottage


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(4.3 estrellas; 233 reseñas)

"Maggie Brown is torn between her mother who constantly tells her to live for her selfish brother (to whom she gives all her love) to her wish to marry Frank and live for herself. Maggie's plight for independence shows the change in women's role, which started to take place during that time. But it also keeps to the tradition of an almost Cinderella story: the pure woman does the best for everyone but herself and is rewarded for that. In addition, this is a very interesting story, written in Gaskell's remarkable style. When you read it, you are transported to another time, and place". (Summary by Stav Nisser.) (4 hr 30 min)

Capítulos

Chapter I 26:56 Leído por Lynne T
Chapter II 21:42 Leído por Lynne T
Chapter III 24:38 Leído por Edmund Lilley
Chapter IV 20:48 Leído por Gina Belmonde
Chapter V 32:17 Leído por Gina Belmonde
Chapter VI 24:01 Leído por mlaura
Chapter VII 19:08 Leído por Claudia Salto
Chapter VIII 26:43 Leído por Gina Belmonde
Chapter IX 28:17 Leído por Jesse Bordwin
Chapter X 17:20 Leído por Tara Dow
Chapter XI 28:45 Leído por mlaura

Reseñas


(5 estrellas)

This is a beautiful, sad story about love, duty and sacrifice. I really enjoyed the conversations between Maggie and Frank; the characters and the relationships between them were very interesting. Their various views and ambitions reflect the changing world at the time this was written, so it's interesting from a historical standpoint too. The story could be a little too pious or sentimental for some, although it didn't bother me. I highly recommend it, especially to Gaskell fans. A couple of the recordings aren't the best quality, but most of them are clear and they're all well read. Thank you to the readers. :)

a sweet love story


(4 estrellas)

i dont usually listen to books read by multiple volunteers. but i tried this one and the readers did good for the most part. a few short chapters by a poor reader, but that reader found her rhythm in the end. a sweet love story and some moral lessons. you kind of know how it will end, but the writer throws in a real surprise towards the end - so it ends up being a more interesting conclusion.


(4 estrellas)

Very “Wives and daughters”-esque. Too good for her own good under appreciated heroine, a parent that dies before the start of the story, kind rich family with takes her as their own, but don’t want her near their heir son. Even though there were multiple readers it wasn’t unbearable. Some I liked more than others, but they all read clearly at a steady pace.

good story, mixed readings


(3.5 estrellas)

The Moorland Cottage is a bittersweet story. The people who read the various chapters were more or less up to the task. Some were excellent, others were okay, and some mispronounced words as if they didn't know what they were reading. However, if there is not another recording of this book available, I would listen again.

Maggie Brown's misfortuned life


(5 estrellas)

Would you like to learn about an obedient and overly submissive girl that changes her life in a single opportunity? This is it, Maggie Brown was a girl badly used by her own mother and brother all her life but she overcame all her fears and challenged everyone for her own happiness at last.


(3 estrellas)

More sentimental, pious, and melodramatic than other novels by the author that I have read. It is saved by a few illuminating character studies. Most of the narrators (male and female) sounded amateurish (at best), and one in particular mispronounced words.

Pleasant book of varied types of love.


(4 estrellas)

Prefer single reader through, but despite very few mispronounced words by one reader, all were very good. All are much appreciated.


(3.5 estrellas)

Oh man some of the readers are terrible, I had to skip those chapters and read them instead!! The 6th chapter was unbearable