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GASKELL, E.: North and South (Abridged)


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Category: Classic Fiction
Reader(s):
Wille, Clare
Catalogue No.: NA634912
ISBN No.: 9789626343494
Total Playing Time: 07:18:12

Track Details

Disc 1
Gaskell, Elizabeth - author(s)
North and South (Abridged) 07:18:12
1 'Edith!' said Margaret gently… 00:05:46
2 Just then the door opened, and Mr. Henry Lennox… 00:07:00
3 Margaret was once more in her morning dress… 00:06:35
4 Margaret had been thinking of him… 00:06:41
5 The conversation at dinner flowed on quietly… 00:07:49
6 He was gone. 00:07:32
7 'Where are we to go to?' said she at last… 00:06:55
8 Margaret went upstairs. 00:05:41
9 Margaret was inexpressibly relieved… 00:04:59
10 The next afternoon, about twenty miles… 00:05:17
11 Margaret could not help her looks… 00:04:19
12 It needed the pretty, light papering of the rooms… 00:07:29

Disc 2
Gaskell, Elizabeth - author(s)
North and South (Abridged) 07:18:12
1 The day after this meeting with Higgins… 00:04:26
2 He was rather late, and walked rapidly… 00:05:14
3 Margaret's lip curled… 00:04:03
4 'Margaret!' said Mr. Hale, as he returned… 00:04:17
5 One afternoon she met Bessie Higgins in the street… 00:05:03
6 Mr. Thornton had had some difficulty… 00:06:54
7 Margaret flew upstairs… 00:03:36
8 It was a comfort to Margaret about this time… 00:08:17
9 'Margaret,' said her father, the next day… 00:04:21
10 Both Mr. Hale and Margaret… 00:05:01
11 Mr. Thornton came that evening to Mr. Hale's. 00:07:15
12 The next afternoon, Dr. Donaldson came… 00:04:16
13 Meanwhile Margaret had returned… 00:05:24
14 Margaret went out heavily and unwillingly enough… 00:04:16
15 'Yo're just a foreigner, and nothing more,' said he… 00:04:41

Disc 3
Gaskell, Elizabeth - author(s)
North and South (Abridged) 07:18:12
1 On Margaret's return home she found two letters… 00:07:09
2 Mr. Hale had his own acquaintances… 00:04:25
3 Margaret went home so painfully occupied… 00:04:02
4 Margaret and her father were the first to arrive. 00:04:58
5 Margaret and her father walked home. 00:06:52
6 Margaret was shown into the drawing room. 00:06:35
7 'Mr. Thornton,' said Margaret, shaking all over… 00:05:50
8 But the retrograde movement towards the gate… 00:04:18
9 Mrs. Thornton went first to the room… 00:05:17
10 Margaret had not been gone five minutes… 00:04:53
11 'Mother! You know what I have got to say…' 00:05:20
12 The next morning Margaret dragged herself up… 00:04:17
13 'Your way of speaking shocks me… 00:04:50
14 Margaret began to wonder whether all offers… 00:04:01
15 Mrs. Hale was in the drawing-room… 00:04:57

Disc 4
Gaskell, Elizabeth - author(s)
North and South (Abridged) 07:18:12
1 When Mr. Thornton had left the house that morning… 00:04:12
2 Mr. Thornton went straight and clear… 00:07:28
3 That afternoon she walked swiftly… 00:04:32
4 While he followed the house-servant along the passage… 00:07:15
5 The next morning brought Margaret a letter from Edith… 00:02:24
6 Mrs. Thornton came to see Mrs. Hale the next morning… 00:03:40
7 During the time that Mrs. Thornton… 00:06:54
8 Before the morning came all was over. 00:04:46
9 It was evident that Frederick must go… 00:06:31
10 All the next day they sat together, they three. 00:07:03
11 Margaret had resolved not to mention… 00:04:25
12 The 'bearing up better than likely' was a terrible strain… 00:07:41
13 Mr. Thornton sat on and on… 00:05:48
14 He accordingly presented himself again… 00:05:47

Disc 5
Gaskell, Elizabeth - author(s)
North and South (Abridged) 07:18:12
1 At the time arranged the previous day… 00:06:35
2 The next day Higgins came to see Mr. Hale and Margaret. 00:04:16
3 It was not merely that Margaret was known… 00:03:54
4 'I don't see what we have to do with that.' 00:04:12
5 The more Mrs. Thornton thought over… 00:05:22
6 Mr. Thornton was not spending the morning… 00:06:00
7 Margaret shut herself up in her own room… 00:05:07
8 Higgins did not turn round… 00:05:36
9 Margaret had not expected much pleasure to herself… 00:06:10
10 So they fell back into the monotony of the quiet life… 00:03:13
11 So the winter was getting on… 00:04:19
12 That night Mr. Hale laid his head down… 00:04:37
13 Margaret fell into a state of prostration… 00:07:59

Disc 6
Gaskell, Elizabeth - author(s)
North and South (Abridged) 07:18:12
1 Mrs. Shaw took as vehement a dislike… 00:07:49
2 It was very well for Margaret… 00:07:25
3 When he was gone, Margaret was silent for some time. 00:06:49
4 About this time Dixon returned from Milton… 00:04:33
5 'Is not Margaret the heiress?' 00:03:10
6 Meanwhile at Milton the chimneys smoked… 00:06:34
7 It was a little golden thread… 00:07:05
8 It was a hot summer's evening. 00:04:59
9 There were only two ladies… 00:04:10
10 Edith went about on tiptoe… 00:04:27
11 Her voice had cleared itself and become more steady… 00:04:34