Ellen Duncan; And The Proctor's Daughter
By William Carleton
Length1h 7m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "There are some griefs so deep and overwhelming, that even the best exertions of friendship and sympathy are unequal to the task of soothing or dispelling them. Such was the grief of Ellen Duncan, who was silently weeping in her lone cottage on the borders of Clare—a county at that time in a frightful state of anarchy and confusion. Owen Duncan, her husband, at the period about which our tale commences, resided in the cabin where he was born and reared, and to which, as well as a few acres of land adjoining, he had succeeded on the death of his father. They had not been long married, and never were husband and wife more attached. About this time outrages began to be perpetrated; and soon increased fearfully in number. Still Owen and Ellen lived happily, and without fear, as they were too poor for the marauders to dream of getting much booty by robbing; and their religion being known to be "the ould religion ov all ov all," in a warfare that was exclusively one of party, they were more protected than otherwise. Owen never was particularly thrifty; and as his means were small, was generally embarrassed, or rather somewhat pinched in circumstances. Notwithstanding this, however, he was as happy as a king; and according to his unlettered neighbors' artless praise, "there wasn't a readier hand, nor an opener heart in the wide world—that's iv he had id—but he hadn't an' more was the pity." His entire possessions consisted of the ground we have mentioned, most part of which was so rocky as to be entirely useless—a cow, a couple of pigs, and the "the uld cabin," which consisted of four mud walls, covered with thatch, in which was an opening, "to let in the day-light, an' to let out the smoke..."
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Fairy Tales and Folklore
Length1 hr 7 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 15, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1ELLEN DUNCAN
2THE PROCTOR'S DAUGHTER
Series
More from William Carleton
The Poor ScholarWilliam Carleton5h 36m$2.30
The Hedge SchoolWilliam Carleton8h 22m$2.30
Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish AgentWilliam Carleton22h 27m$2.30
Going to MaynoothWilliam Carleton5h 31m$2.30
The Ned M'Keown StoriesWilliam Carleton9h 46m$2.30
One Way Out: A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to AmericaWilliam Carleton6h 21m$2.30
Lha Dhu; Or, The Dark DayWilliam Carleton1h 18m$2.30
The StationWilliam Carleton7h 37m$2.30
Jane SinclairWilliam Carleton6h 18m$2.30
Phil PurcelWilliam Carleton7h 2m$2.30
Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other StoriesWilliam Carleton14h 37m$2.30
Body Refinement in a Beast Tamer’s World, Book 1Seth Ring14h 7m$27
Hell Divers XII: HeroesNicholas Sansbury Smith13h 18m$27
EmberJeffrey Wilson, Brian Andrews13h 58m$23
The Complete Works of Jane Austen (Unabridged)Jane Austen88h 8m$1 · $0.00
Beyond Temptation & Risky PleasuresBrenda Jackson10h 53m$24 · $0.00
Shōgun, Part TwoJames Clavell29h 16m$40
Showdown in the Big EasyCharles Tillman, Michael Anderle, Martha Carr7h 37m$23
Searching For ThanksgivingS.E. Smith4h 24m$20
Naughty 4Brenda Hampton7h 30m$17
The Dance with Me TrilogyShelley Shepard Gray21h 44m$35
The DopemanJaQuavis Coleman5h 25m$20
Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate CollectionArthur Conan Doyle59h 49m$5 · $0.00
My Favorite Husband, Vol. 1Hollywood 360, CBS Radio5h 40m$14
WhistlerAnn Patchett10h 45m$29 · $0.00
Grand Opening 2Carl Weber9h 16m$20
Sons of Valor II: Violence of ActionBrian Andrews, Jeffrey Wilson12h 34m$23
Malevolent MagicMildred Abbott7h 13m$17
Look TwiceEva Hudson9h 48m$20
The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud MontgomeryLucy Maud Montgomery203h 59m$1 · $0.00
The Complete Books of F. Scott Fitzgerald (all his 5 novels + all 4 short story collections published during his lifetime)F. Scott Fitzgerald87h 53m$2 · $0.00
Joy in the MorningP. G. Wodehouse6h 57m$17
THE CAMELOT TRILOGYHoward Pyle38h 19m$2 · $0.00
Grimm's Fairy TalesThe Brothers Grimm28h 44m$30
Solomon vs. LordPaul Levine12h 3m$23
Further Tales of the CityArmistead Maupin8h 10m$26 · $0.00
The Lost PrinceFrancis Hodgson Burnett10h 37m$2 · $0.00
The Goose GirlShannon Hale10h 11m$30
Norse MythologyNeil Gaiman6h 30m$24 · $0.00
The Silver Moon of SummerLeila Howland6h 39m$21 · $0.00
Bambi: A Life In The WoodsFelix Salten4h 43m$2.30
The Wonder ClockHoward Pyle, Katharine Pyle8h 16m$1 · $0.00
Household Tales by Brothers GrimmJacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm29h 29m$1 · $0.00
The Palace of IllusionsChitra Banerjee Divakaruni12h 21m$23
The Family InheritanceTricia Stringer12h 14m$29 · $0.00
The Good Wife of BathKaren Brooks19h 48m$40 · $0.00
Mary JaneJessica Anya Blau9h 45m$29 · $0.00
The Funny Thing About Norman ForemanJulietta Henderson9h 11m$29 · $0.00
The Arabian Nights EntertainmentsAnonymous8h 41m$2 · $0.00
The Child ThiefBrom19h 37m$40 · $0.00
Orange FairytalesAndrew Lang10h 59m$1 · $0.00
You may also like
The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoyevsky37h 19m$80 · $0.00
In Greene PasturesKendra Norman-Bellamy10h 21m$20
Mark Hurdlestone; Or, The Two BrothersSusanna Moodie9h 37m$2 · $0.00
Poetical WorksJames Parkerson30m$2 · $0.00
Bessie CostrellHumphry Mrs. Ward2h 34m$1 · $0.00
His Bloody ProjectBurnet, Graeme M10h 18mFree
Son of BillabongMary Grant Bruce8h 26m$2 · $0.00
Day of VengeanceJeanne M. Dams9h 21m$20
'way Down In Lonesome CoveMary Noailles Murfree1h 27m$1 · $0.00
The Book of ForgivingDesmond Tutu, Mpho Tutu6h 38m$24 · $0.00
The Root of All EvilJ. S. Fletcher9h 11m$1 · $0.00
A Woman's BurdenFergus Hume10h 30m$25
The Lane That Had No Turning, CompleteGilbert Parker8h 37m$2 · $0.00
A Dark Night's WorkElizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell7h 44m$2 · $0.00
Seth's Brother's Wife: A Study of Life in the Greater New YorkHarold Frederic10h 43m$2 · $0.00
Dark HollowAnna Katharine Green10h 18m$20
Keep You SafeMelissa Hill11h 26m$29 · $0.00
The Lying GameMaxine Barry6h 10m$17
The Finer GrainHenry James5h 47m$2.30
Memory of MurderDebra Webb5h 55m$12 · $0.00