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Cranford

By: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Narrated by: Davina Porter
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This classic novel has been thrice adapted for the screen by the BBC. Mary Smith relates the story of her time with middle-aged spinster sisters Miss Matty and Miss Deborah. Witty, poignant, and often ironic, Cranford is the tale of what these two women will do to remain respectable, proper, and kind with only moderate means.©2008 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (P)2008 Recorded Books, LLC Classics Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-Ins Witty

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Award-winning voice actor Davina Porter delivers a refined performance of Cranford a novel by Victorian writer Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. Porter’s enunciation is impeccable, allowing the story to unfold in a cultivated manner suited to the prose and subject matter. In a small parish in Cheshire, England, Mary Smith, her friends Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, and other upper class members of society pass their days by calling on neighbors, engaging in polite conversation, practicing elegant economy, and avoiding vulgarities of any sort.

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"... an extremely clever piece of writing." ( Guardian (UK))
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