Sylvia's Lovers
Tale of Love and Betrayal in the Napoleonic Wars (With Author's Biography)By Elizabeth Gaskell
Length22h 1m
About this audiobook
Sylvia's Lovers is a Victorian romance novel described by the author as "the saddest story I ever wrote". The story begins in the 1790s in the fictional coastal town of Monkshaven against the background of the practice of impressments during the early phases of the Napoleonic Wars. Sylvia Robson lives happily with her parents on a farm, and is passionately loved by her rather dull Quaker cousin Philip. She, however, meets and falls in love with Charlie Kinraid, a dashing sailor on a whaling vessel, and they become secretly engaged. When Kinraid goes back to his ship, he is forcibly enlisted in the Royal Navy by a press gang, a scene witnessed by Philip. Philip does not tell Sylvia of the incident nor relay to her Charlie's parting message and, believing her lover is dead, Sylvia eventually marries her cousin and they get a daughter. Inevitably, Kinraid returns to claim Sylvia and she discovers that Philip knew all the time that he was still alive.
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) was an English novelist and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Some of Gaskell's best known novels are Cranford, North and South, and Wives and Daughters.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, History
Length22 hrs 1 min
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 9, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1I. Monkshaven
30XXX. Happy Days
2II. Home from Greenland
31XXXI. Evil Omens
3III. Buying a New Cloak
32XXXII. Rescued from the Waves
4IV. Philip Hepburn
33XXXIII. An Apparition
5V. Story of the Press-Gang
34XXXIV. A Reckless Recruit
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6VI. The Sailor’s Funeral
35XXXV. Things Unutterable
7VII. Tete-a-tete. — The Will
36XXXVI. Mysterious Tidings
8VIII. Attraction and Repulsion
37XXXVII. Bereavement
9IX. The Specksioneer
38XXXVIII. The Recognition
10X. A Refractory Pupil
39XXXIX. Confidences
11XI. Visions of the Future
40XL. An Unexpected Messenger
12XII. New Year’s Fete
41XLI. The Bedesman of St Sepulchre
13XIII. Perplexities
42XLII. A Fable at Fault
14XIV. Partnership
43XLIII. The Unknown
15XV. A Difficult Question
44XLIV. First Words
16XVI. The Engagement
45XLV. Saved and Lost
17XVII. Rejected Warnings
46Preface
18XVIII. Eddy in Love’s Current
47Preface to Second Edition
19XIX. An Important Mission
48Introduction
20XX. Loved and Lost
49Chapter I: Knutsford
21XXI. A Rejected Suitor
50Knutsford
22XXII. Deepening Shadows
51Changes in Knutsford
23XXIII. Retaliation
52The Bellman
24XXIV. Brief Rejoicing
53The Rhymster
25XXV. Coming Troubles
54Is Knutsford the Original of "Cranford"?
26XXVI. A Dreary Vigil
55Cranford Notes
27XXVII. Gloomy Days
56Brook Street Chapel
28XXVIII. The Ordeal
57Chapter III: The Rev. William Gaskell. M. A.: The Rev. William Gaskell, M.A.
29XXIX. Wedding Raiment
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