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Cousin Phillis

By: Elizabeth Gaskell
Narrated by: Joe Marsh
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Cousin Phillis – a miniature masterpiece – is set in the 1840s, when the coming of the railway was changing the face of England, and quiet rural communities, coming into contact with the outside world, were changed forever. The story focuses on the effect these changes have on a naïve country girl, Phillis, as she encounters love, with all its pains and pleasures, for the first time.

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Narrator Joe Marsh finds the perfect voice for 17-year-old Paul Manning. By turns sensible and naive, straightforward and wistful, Paul moves to the countryside and befriends his beautiful, sheltered cousin Phillis. Both Paul and Phillis are witness to the changes wrought by the coming of the railway to 1840s rural England, with communities forever changed by their contact with the outside world. Marsh subtly evokes the story's delicate eroticism, and, like Paul, listeners will feel as allured by Phillis' chaste sensuality as she encounters love for the first time.

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Cousin Phillis

I love the buck and couldn’t wait to start listening. I can’t get through the very beginning though; Narration is so bad and the choice so poorly thought out and makes it impossible for me to listen through.

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Delicate Story

Elizabeth Gaskell, better known for her full-length novels, has written a lovely story of a country family told through the eyes of a cousin. Although the story does not contain the depth you would expect from a longer novel, her descriptions of the family, the farm, and the railway, which is being built and will forever change their lives, as well as the budding romance makes this read well worth it. I recommend this story.

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a jewel!

Wonderfully performed, a beautifully written story by Elizabeth Gaskell. We see the heroine through the eyes of her male cousin, an unusual narrative perspective.

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One of the worst readers I have ever heard

The reader was probably the worst I have ever heard. His voice wasn’t unpleasant, which I always check before getting a book, but he sounded as if he had never read the book before, had no idea when to emphasize, when to use a parenthetical voice, etc. It was like listening to a first year student with a posh accent thinking he could wing it.

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