Shirley (version 2)
Charlotte Brontë
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This work, Charlotte Bronte's second, is set in the England of the early 1800's, which was beset with political and social changes, represented by the Industrial Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. And there is much to do with those changes in values from those of the past. But at its core, this novel is about romance. And the plot primarily follows the struggles and triumphs of two couples, the two brothers Moore, Louis and Robert, and Caroline Helstone and Shirley Keeldar. The final scenes capture the essence of the change in this world, and one hopes for the more philanthropic and egalitarian world pictured there, but at the same time one laments the loss of a world of magic and of a respect for natural beauty. - Summary by Jim Locke (22 hr 49 min)
Chapitres
| Levitical | 34:02 | Lu par Vijeta Sharma |
| The wagons | 39:11 | Lu par Vijeta Sharma |
| Mr. York | 22:05 | Lu par Vijeta Sharma |
| Mr. York (continued) | 29:33 | Lu par Vijeta Sharma |
| Hollow's cottage | 39:16 | Lu par Vijeta Sharma |
| Coriolanus | 48:51 | Lu par Jim Locke |
| The Curates at Tea | 58:11 | Lu par Jim Locke |
| Noah and Moses | 39:23 | Lu par Jim Locke |
| Briarmains | 53:06 | Lu par Jim Locke |
| Old maids | 42:33 | Lu par Jim Locke |
| Fieldhead | 43:22 | Lu par Jim Locke |
| Shirley and Caroline | 48:16 | Lu par Jim Locke |
| Further communications on business | 59:25 | Lu par Jim Locke |
| Shirley seeks to be saved by works | 35:38 | Lu par Jim Locke |
| Mr. Donne's exodus | 31:40 | Lu par Jim Locke |
| Whitsuntide | 27:45 | Lu par Jim Locke |
| The school feast | 36:15 | Lu par Jim Locke |
| Which the genteel reader is recommended to skip, low persons being here introdu… | 27:55 | Lu par Jim Locke |
| A summer night | 36:52 | Lu par Jim Locke |
| To-morrow | 30:58 | Lu par Jim Locke |
| Mrs. Pryor | 43:13 | Lu par Jim Locke |
| Two lives | 25:21 | Lu par Jim Locke |
| An evening out | 47:11 | Lu par Jim Locke |
| The valley of the shadow of death | 41:19 | Lu par Jim Locke |
| The west wind blows | 18:57 | Lu par Jim Locke |
| Old copy-books | 43:14 | Lu par Jim Locke |
| The first bluestocking | 50:18 | Lu par Jim Locke |
| Phoebe | 45:03 | Lu par Jim Locke |
| Louis Moore | 20:41 | Lu par Jim Locke |
| Rushedge - a confessional | 36:07 | Lu par Jim Locke |
| Uncle and niece | 35:46 | Lu par Jim Locke |
| The schoolboy and the wood-nymph | 27:15 | Lu par Jim Locke |
| Martin's tactics | 21:59 | Lu par Jim Locke |
| Case of domestic persecution - remarkable instance of pious perseverance in the… | 16:46 | Lu par Jim Locke |
| Wherein matters make some progress, but not much | 25:32 | Lu par Jim Locke |
| Written in the schoolroom | 52:43 | Lu par Jim Locke |
| The winding-up | 33:41 | Lu par Jim Locke |