Length6h 42m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "Fractiousness was the keynote of the mental atmosphere in a certain substantial-looking South Kensington house on a certain Monday morning. Not that this bad-tempered atmosphere was peculiar to this one particular Monday by no means. As a rule, every living thing in the house, from the master down to the blind and asthmatic pug that lived under the kitchen table, started the working week in a mood that was detestable in an individual as well as collective sense. And perhaps the worst offender of the lot was Mrs. Pennington. Her hatred of Mondays had become traditional. Seated at her well-worn writing table, surrounded by tradesmen's books of every size, color and description, she was simply unapproachable. On ordinary occasions gentle-voiced and sympathetic, the advent of Monday saw her transformed into a flushed, querulous, pugilistic person, whose whole attitude denoted war and hatred toward every washerwoman, every butcher, baker or greengrocer that ever had existed or ever would exist. Life in the Kensington household for at least three hours of the average Monday might be likened to the sensation of a train that had suddenly left the rails and was bumping along with a series[Pg 6] of shocks, till either the steam was turned off in time or a catastrophe occurred. That a catastrophe never had occurred is one of those everyday marvels with which we are hemmed about. Why, for instance, "cook"—a generic term which covered a multitude of persons—had never turned on her mistress and thrashed out the end of the "suet question" with fists instead of angry impertinence, was one of those problems which Polly, at least, had never been able to solve."
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller, General Fiction
Length6 hrs 42 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 3, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I. “’TWAS ON A MONDAY MORNING.”
2CHAPTER II. THE FIRST MEETING.
3CHAPTER III. BACK IN FAMILIAR HAUNTS.
4CHAPTER IV. A BITTER EXPERIENCE.
5CHAPTER V. POLLY’S CULINARY DIFFICULTIES.
Show all chaptersShow less
6CHAPTER VI. THE YOUNG LADY WENTWORTH.
7CHAPTER VII. A MILD REQUEST.
8CHAPTER VIII. WINNING A HUSBAND.
9CHAPTER IX. BEYOND RECONCILIATION.
10CHAPTER X. A WILFUL WOMAN.
11CHAPTER XI. THE BOY’S RETURN.
12CHAPTER XII. A TERRIBLE DESTINY.
13CHAPTER XIII. HOPING AGAINST HOPE.
14CHAPTER XIV. THE PORTRAIT PAINTER.
15CHAPTER XV. A REBUFF.
16CHAPTER XVI. A CHANGED HOUSE.
17CHAPTER XVII. DRAWING TOGETHER.
18CHAPTER XVIII. THE CAUSE OF STRIFE.
19CHAPTER XIX. THE TRAGEDY ON THE POLO GROUNDS.
20CHAPTER XX. CHRISTINA’S TRICKS.
21CHAPTER XXI. HER SISTER’S SECRET.
22CHAPTER XXII. A DEFINITION OF A WIFE.
23CHAPTER XXIII. THE SYMPATHY OF THE WAVES.
24CHAPTER XXIV. AT THE MOMENT OF VICTORY.
Series
The Rose CodeKate Quinn16h 2m4.4 (493.7K)$33 · $0.00
Deadly Badlands PursuitSharee Stover5h 53m4.6 (361)$12 · $0.00
Crime and Punishment (The Unabridged Garnett Translation) (Annotated)Fyodor Dostoevsky24h 25m4.5 (15.4K)$1.99 · $0.00
Three ComradesErich Maria Remarque15h 50m4.5 (47.3K)$2 · $0.00
AngelAnita Waller10h 30m4.6 (672)$30 · $0.00
The BorderDon Winslow29h 8m4.5 (35.7K)$53 · $0.00
FlashpointCatherine Coulter11h 38m4.5 (11.6K)$29 · $0.00
The Man in the Brown Suit & They Came to BaghdadAgatha Christie15h 43m4.6 (495)$33 · $0.00
Fang Si-Chi's First Love ParadiseYi-Han Lin8h 25m4.5 (4K)$26 · $0.00
No Woman Left BehindJulie Moffett8h 49m4.5 (3K)$25 · $0.00
CovertJanie Crouch6h 15m4.5 (2K)$12 · $0.00
Cold Case InvestigationNicole Helm5h 30m4.6 (321)$5 · $0.00
The ReunionJana DeLeon6h 31m4.5 (1.6K)$12 · $0.00
Courage Under FireSharon Dunn5h 50m4.5 (730)$24 · $0.00
Decoding the TruthJulie Miller7h 31m4.6 (350)$12 · $0.00
Murder Gone ColdB.J. Daniels5h 50m4.5 (562)$12 · $0.00
Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoyevsky23h 14m4.4 (1.3M)$1 · $0.00
Exit FeeBrad Taylor3h 16m4.5 (1.9K)$18 · $0.00
Sworn to ProtectShirlee McCoy5h 7m4.5 (1K)$12 · $0.00
The Alice NetworkKate Quinn15h 7m4.4 (887.1K)$33 · $0.00
WhistlerAnn Patchett10h 45m4.6 (4.6K)$29 · $0.00
Demon CopperheadBarbara Kingsolver21h 3m4.5 (949.4K)$46 · $0.00
To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee12h 18m4.5 (7.4M)$29 · $0.00
Remarkably Bright CreaturesShelby Van Pelt11h 17m4.4 (1.7M)$29 · $0.00
The Ghost by the Billabong (The Matilda Saga, #5)Jackie French14h 58m4.6 (773)$33 · $0.00
Cast in BloodMichelle Sagara16h 35m4.6 (607)$33 · $0.00
The Captain Blood Trilogy (Annotated)Rafael Sabatini29h 20m4.6 (1K)$3 · $0.00
Ship of the Line (Annotated)Cecil Louis Troughton Smith11h 13m4.6 (1K)$2 · $0.00
The George Orwell CollectionGeorge Orwell24h 46m4.5 (14.4K)$12 · $0.00
Time RegainedMarcel Proust15h 38m4.5 (9.2K)$2 · $0.00
Driving ForceElle James4h 58m4.6 (407)$20 · $0.00
When God Calls the HeartBrian Bird, Michelle Cox3h 24m4.6 (439)$10 · $0.00
Five Little IndiansMichelle Good10h 34m4.5 (64.5K)$29 · $0.00
Lolth's WarriorR. A. Salvatore13h 20m4.6 (2.4K)$33 · $0.00
The Things We Cannot SayKelly Rimmer13h 48m4.5 (359.1K)$33 · $0.00
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du BoisHonoree Fanonne Jeffers29h 49m4.5 (58K)$8 · $0.00
Going PostalTerry Pratchett11h 23m4.5 (189.9K)$29 · $0.00
Glen AffricKarine Giebel22h 51m4.5 (3.2K)$46 · $0.00
The Book Of NegroesLawrence Hill15h 45m4.5 (107.3K)$33 · $0.00
Lieutenant Hornblower (Annotated)C. S. Forester11h 41m4.5 (2.9K)$2 · $0.00
You may also like
Man and WifeWilkie Collins25h 44m4.0 (2.2K)$2.30
Desperate RemediesThomas Hardy16h 32m4.0 (4.6K)$3.50 · $0.00
The Complete Novels CollectionJane Austen69h 25m4.6 (48.3K)$12 · $0.00
The Dead SecretWilkie Collins15h 30m3.8 (3.7K)$1.20 · $0.00
Good CompanyCynthia D'Aprix Sweeney8h 59m3.5 (65.5K)$29 · $0.00
The HeiressLynsay Sands9h 19m3.9 (5.2K)$29 · $0.00
The Lost Summers of NewportBeatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, Karen White13h 8m3.9 (31.6K)$33 · $0.00
Modeste MignonHonoré de Balzac11h 45m3.8 (1.4K)$2 · $0.00
Bright Arrows (Musaicum Romance Classics)Grace Livingston Hill9h 2m4.3 (624)$1 · $0.00
The Fifth LetterNicola Moriarty8h 24m3.6 (13.6K)$26 · $0.00
The FianceeKate White9h 45m3.6 (9.4K)$29 · $0.00
Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Successful MarriagesHenry James, Thomas Hardy, George Moore, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Walter Besant3h 29m3.5 (98)$1 · $0.00
Dr. Paull's Theory, A RomanceAlice M. Diehl8h 18m$2.30
Wives and Widows; or, The Broken LifeAnn S. Stephens14h 17m$2 · $0.00
The Two MarysMrs Oliphant8h 41m$2.30
The Story of a GovernessMrs. Oliphant15h 40m4.0 (11)$1.99 · $0.00
Helen of Troy; and RosePhyllis Bottome5h 2m$1 · $0.00
April HopesWilliam Dean Howells12h 50m3.4 (14)$1 · $0.00
Phantom Fortune, a NovelM. E. Braddon17h 30m4.0 (77)$2 · $0.00
Isabel Clarendon (Historical Novel)George Gissing14h 3m3.6 (47)$2 · $0.00