![]() ![]() It has taken me nearly half a century to discover why classics are such great audio treats, not so different from the well written books of today, but missing the compulsory sex and vulgarities. It was a lovely voyage and that it ended just short of its destination did not make it much less enjoyable. We are given what we are told was the author's intent to have happy closure for the characters who most deserved it. The afterword addresses the lack of an ending. ![]() Don't be off put by the fact that the author, Elizabeth Gaskell, a contemporary of Austin and the Brontes, died just before finishing this classic. Gibson, the stepmother who is as close to innocuous evil as Ms Gaskell can bring herself, and various other characters of differing classes who live nearby and help make this book a 19th century soap opera. ![]() The story is of Molly Gibson, a nineteenth century middleclass teenager, an admirable if slightly insipid heroine, her wonderful father-a country doctor, her magnetic stepsister Cynthia and Mrs. This was long and lovely,-a British accent is crisp and clear Nadia May has that and more. ![]()
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