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Deerbrook

Harriet Martineau,

Valerie Sanders (Annotations)

Start date: July 1, 2023

Finish date: September 30, 2023

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Sep 02, 2023 Chrissie rated it it was ok

Shelves: long, kids, love, relationships, victorian, hf, classics, 2023-read, england, philo-psychol

Available free at Librivox. Unfortunately, it has multiple narrators. One must persevere; other listeners have said the narration of the first chapters are bad.

YEAH, THIS IS PK, IF YOU LIKE LONG VICTORIAN STORIES. I FIND ITS MORAL AND RELIGIOUS CONTENT TOO PREACHY. THEIR IS A LOVE TRIANGLE WE OBSERVE FROM SEVERAL POINTS OF VIEW--THERE IS QUITE A BIT OF DEPTH HERE.

THE LIBRIVPX NARRATORS VARY WIDELY. THE BEGINNING READER IS THE WORST. DOT GIVE UP1ONE OR TWO ARE VERY GOOD BUT THE OTHERS ARE EXTREME ...more

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