The Lady's Mile
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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If you drive through the Lady's Mile, the most fashionable district in London, you will see people whose most distinguished ambition was to be known in that circle. A novelist, a painter, and some aristocrats, willing to prove themselves to the world. But what happens behind closed doors? Is the Lady's Mile as respectable as it seems? - Summary by Stav Nisser. (16 hr 54 min)
Chapters
He is but a landscape-painter | 34:51 | Read by Elsie Selwyn |
Lord Aspendell's daughter | 32:24 | Read by Elsie Selwyn |
Hector | 41:02 | Read by Elsie Selwyn |
Love and duty | 16:24 | Read by Riley McGuire |
At the fountains | 44:06 | Read by Jim Locke |
Wedding cards | 11:11 | Read by Jim Locke |
The great O'Boyneville | 41:33 | Read by Jim Locke |
The dowager's little dinner | 29:03 | Read by Jim Locke |
Laurence O'Boyneville's first hearing | 26:52 | Read by Jim Locke |
The rich Mr. Lobyer | 37:00 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
At Nasedale | 33:12 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
Mr. O'Boyneville's motion for a new trial | 33:34 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
Cecil's honeymoon | 38:47 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
Mr. Lobyer's wooing | 42:14 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
Delilah | 29:21 | Read by Jim Locke |
At home in Bloomsbury | 27:13 | Read by Jim Locke |
Poor Philip | 31:44 | Read by Jim Locke |
Too late for repentance | 27:23 | Read by Jim Locke |
Tidings from India | 34:34 | Read by Jim Locke |
At Pevenshall Place | 17:02 | Read by Jim Locke |
Sir Nugent Evershed | 30:55 | Read by Jim Locke |
Mrs. Lobyer's skeleton | 46:40 | Read by Jim Locke |
How should I greet thee? | 36:23 | Read by Jim Locke |
Between Carthage and Kensington | 31:41 | Read by Jim Locke |
The easy descent | 38:38 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
A modern love-chase | 17:07 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
He comes too near, who comes to be denied | 29:21 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
Were all thy letters suns, I could not see | 15:08 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
A timely warning | 17:48 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
He's sweetest friend, or hardest foe | 12:53 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
On the brink | 35:14 | Read by Jim Locke |
By the sea | 23:30 | Read by Jim Locke |
A commercial earthquake | 38:47 | Read by Jim Locke |
The epilogue | 10:51 | Read by Jim Locke |
Reviews
Technically, it's a happy ending...
Phxjennifer
...but somehow everyone just seems pretty depressed by the time this book grinds, sloooowly , to a finish. Part of the effect is due to the narration. Both main narrators tend toward the mechanical and monotone, and both of them have issues with incorrect pronunciation in English. ( I don't speak French, so I can't judge that.) I imagine the extra effort the listener needs to put in to figure out what's being said can make the book seem much longer.
Joyful
Thank you for reading this book. Cecil should have organized a Ladies Afternoon Book Club or even had a couple of children. That would have helped her find fulfillment in her life so she didn’t have to consider being unfaithful to her husband. He did love her in his own way, and she did take an oath before God, to love him and be faithful to him. joyfuljoyful@hotmail.com
good story but reader Locke difficult to listen to
A LibriVox Listener
To Locke, I can tell this is an important volunteer activity. please consider taking a class on good story reading techniques