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Round the Sofa by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook. Genre: family Round the Sofa (1859), is a book of stories by the lady that Charles Dickens called his “dear Scheherazade” due to her skill as a story teller. That Lady was Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell (North and South, Wives and Daughters, Cranford etc.). Mrs. Gaskell begins with Round the Sofa, a short story which she uses as a device to stitch together six previously published stories into a single work. It introduces us to a set of characters who take turns to recount stories to one another during their weekly soirée. My Lady Ludlow tells the story of the widowed, aristocratic Lady Ludlow and her fierce resistance to change. It is told through the eyes of one of her young charges. Incidentally, it was one of the books used to create the TV series Cranford. An Accursed Race is actually an essay about a persecuted minority group, the Cagots in Western France. The Doom of the Griffiths. A Gothic short story about a cursed family and set in Wales. Half a Life-Time Ago. A novella set in the Wiltshire Dales. The Poor Clare. A Ghostly short story! The Half Brothers. A sad short story about brotherly love and a sheep-dog dog named Lassie! For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:17:53) Chapter 02 (00:57:45) Chapter 03 (01:33:11) Chapter 04 (02:04:01) Chapter 05 (02:34:50) Chapter 06 (03:07:26) Chapter 07 (03:41:27) Chapter 08 (04:15:29) Chapter 09 (04:53:08) Chapter 10 (05:27:49) Chapter 11 (05:59:36) Chapter 12 (06:34:26) Chapter 13 (07:18:43) Chapter 14 (07:55:55) Chapter 15 (08:36:36) Chapter 16 (09:25:36) Chapter 17 (10:18:31) Chapter 18 (11:07:45) Chapter 19 (11:47:06) Chapter 20 (12:00:15) Chapter 21 (12:30:35) Chapter 22 (12:44:39) Chapter 23 (13:11:03) Chapter 24 (13:44:40) Chapter 25 (14:26:17) Chapter 26 (15:05:11) Chapter 27 (15:43:42) Chapter 28 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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