Length8h 25m
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Excerpt: "Half-way along the one straggling street of Savilestowe a narrow lane suddenly opened out between the cottages and turned abruptly towards the uplands which rose on the northern edge of the village. Its first course lay between high grey walls, overhung with ivy and snapdragon. When it emerged from their cool shadowings the church came in view on one hand and the school on the other, each set on its own green knoll and standing high above the meadows. Once past these it became narrower and more tortuous; the banks on either side rose steeply, and were crowned by ancient oaks and elms. In the proper season of the year these banks were thick with celandine and anemone, and the scent of hedge violets rose from the moss among the spreading roots of the trees. Here the ruts of the lane were deep, as if no man had any particular business to repair them. The lane was, in fact, a mere occupation road, and led to nothing but an out-of-the-way farmstead, which stood, isolated and forlorn, half a mile from the village. It bore a picturesque name—Applecroft—and an artist, straying by chance up the lane and coming suddenly upon it would have rejoiced in its queer gables, its twisted chimneys, in the beeches and chestnuts that towered above it, and in the old-world garden and orchard which flanked one side of its brick walls, mellowed by time to the colour of claret. But had such a pilgrim looked closer he would have seen that here were all the marks of ill-fortune and coming ruin—evident, at any rate, to practical eyes in the neglected gates and fences, in the empty fold, in the hingeless, tumble-down doors, in the lack of that stitch in time which by anticipation would have prevented nine more. He would have seen, in short, that this was one of those places, of which there are so many in rural England, whereat a feckless man, short of money, was vainly endeavouring to do what no man can do without brains and capital."
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length8 hrs 25 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 17, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
16Part the Second: FALL
2Part the First: RISE
17CHAPTER I
3CHAPTER I
18CHAPTER II
4CHAPTER II
19CHAPTER III
5CHAPTER III
20CHAPTER IV
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6CHAPTER IV
21CHAPTER V
7CHAPTER V
22CHAPTER VI
8CHAPTER VI
23CHAPTER VII
9CHAPTER VII
24CHAPTER VIII
10CHAPTER VIII
25CHAPTER IX
11CHAPTER IX
26CHAPTER X
12CHAPTER X
27CHAPTER XI
13CHAPTER XI
28CHAPTER XII
14CHAPTER XII
29CHAPTER XIII
15CHAPTER XIII
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