I read this book in 1958 when I was 15 - still My favourite novel. This story is read very well by a man with a very pleasing en relaxing way inducing pleasurable concentration - Thank You
The Voice... The voice... The voice... Soothing, mesmerizing, clear beautiful. I have enjoyed the book the most this time and I have read it twice before. Never has the character of Henshard been so alive and virtually breathing next to you. loved your voice. thank you for uploading.
This is a great novel. I love Thomas Hardy's novels. They bring the days before Industrialization alive! And I love the symbolism! Really makes you think of the deeper meaning!
Thank you so much for this reading. I loved the portrayal on Masterpiece Theater with Ciaran Hinds and it needs the right voice to bring it to life. Wonderful. I love the patience of your cadence.
This was the first novel of my life that i read , and still it is my favourite 😊😍 also I like this audio book , specially the voice of this audio book is very lovely and interesting 😊😊
6 a.m.; finally finished listening, fell asleep a few times, but then I read the novel before, and watched Clairin Hinds play Michael in the two part movie, also available if you search for it.
The accent is a lot closer to how a west country accent would have sounded in Hardy's day than anything that might come out of the Royal Shakespeare Company today. The American accent largely grew from the old west country accent of old England. Nice to listen to.
@@spanbeam populations weren’t as mobile then as they are now, nor were thre any telephones or radios, let alone television, so the accent had probably changed very little over two or three centuries.
i have a final exam on this novel. i am forcing myself to listen . under different circumstances i would have enjoyed it more. it's quit good. i feel like i am living in that Victorian age and I even find myself using some of their old words !
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I read this book in 1958 when I was 15 - still My favourite novel. This story is read very well by a man with a very pleasing en relaxing way inducing pleasurable concentration - Thank You
The Voice... The voice... The voice... Soothing, mesmerizing, clear beautiful. I have enjoyed the book the most this time and I have read it twice before. Never has the character of Henshard been so alive and virtually breathing next to you. loved your voice. thank you for uploading.
I could listen to this forever. A true storyteller’s voice
It is not human. Machine reading voice. I have got the software. I am going to work on it.
@@shiva.chennai ok good job bro
Chapter 1 00:01
Chapter 2 30:26
Chapter 3. 40:50
Chapter 4 52:01
Chapter 5 1:09:12
Chapter 6 1:23:14
Chapter 7 1:33:36
Chapter 8 1:49:58
Chapter 9 2:06:00
Chapter 10 2:24:43
Chapter 11 2:34:04
Chapter 12 2:46:39
Chapter 13 2:59:15
Chapter 14 3:10:36
Chapter 15 3:32:07
Chapter 16 3:47:36
Chapter 17 4:02:47
Chapter 18 4:19:29
Chapter 19 4:30:48
Chapter 20 4:49:56
Chapter 21 5:12:54
Chapter 22 5:29:50
Chapter 23 5:54:10
Chapter 24 6:12:37
Chapter 25 6:32:35
Chapter 26 6:44:42
Chapter 27 7:09:20
Chapter 28 7:29:20
Chapter 29 7:39:35
Chapter 30 7:59:10
Chapter 31 8:10:57
Chapter 32 8:21:48 The two bridges
Chapter 33 8:40:33 The end of the oath
Chapter 34 8:58:47 A new Mayor
Chapter 35 9:17:48 Lucetta's letters
Chapter 36 9:28:50 Mixen Lane
Chapter 37 9:50:40 A Royal Visit
Chapter 38 10:06:36 Fight
Chapter 39 10:22:57 A Skimmington
Chapter 40 10:39:23 A Doctor Attends
Chapter 41 10:53:33 A Visitor
Chapter 42 11:17:19 Elizabeth Jane's Walks
Chapter 43 11:35:32 An arrival and departure
Chapter 44 11:58:13 News Of A Wedding
Chapter 45 12:23:59 Accessing this timecode needs to be done manually for some reason
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This is a great novel. I love Thomas Hardy's novels. They bring the days before Industrialization alive! And I love the symbolism! Really makes you think of the deeper meaning!
the narrator could weave a picture with his words and thanks a ton .
He could indeed, and he did, especially when he actually sang "The lark shall sing me hame to my ain countree!" Oh that got me teared properly.
I cannot stop crying. I've just reached the end and am sobbing. This will leave my heart mellow for days.
Did anyone else cry at the end ? Hardy said it was the only one of his books he cried while writing.
I am reading or listening this novel in may 2024 from my library ❤
A very good pace, making it easy for the listener to enjoy the story.
Very well read. Thank you.
Thank you so much for this reading. I loved the portrayal on Masterpiece Theater with Ciaran Hinds and it needs the right voice to bring it to life. Wonderful. I love the patience of your cadence.
00:00-30:25 = Chapter 1 30:26-40:50 = Chapter 2
1:33:40-Chapter 7
1:49:55-Chapter 8
2:05:56-Chapter 9
2:24:42-Chapter 10
2:34:02-Chapter 11
Love the narrator, i enjoyed listening to this and will listen again just because i enjoyed it so much.
This was the first novel of my life that i read , and still it is my favourite 😊😍 also I like this audio book , specially the voice of this audio book is very lovely and interesting 😊😊
Thanks for your recommendation, I really enjoyed this tragic novel, so many life lessons, and the reader was awesome!!
@@lelbub8088 😊
I enjoyed it as one of my set-books in 1988- Literature in English. In some remote rural school, in the second stream.
This is a soap opera. The more I listen to it the harder it gets to keep track of who knows what about whom.
Great Story
Beautiful narration 💓
6 a.m.; finally finished listening, fell asleep a few times, but then I read the novel before, and watched Clairin Hinds play Michael in the two part movie, also available if you search for it.
Fantastic story teller
This is great thanks!
Thnks 😊. , Love from india
The accent is a lot closer to how a west country accent would have sounded in Hardy's day than anything that might come out of the Royal Shakespeare Company today. The American accent largely grew from the old west country accent of old England. Nice to listen to.
Hardys day wasn't that long ago! American and british accents split way before that.
Wessex. Many immigrants to the colonies from this region.
@@spanbeam populations weren’t as mobile then as they are now, nor were thre any telephones or radios, let alone television, so the accent had probably changed very little over two or three centuries.
I’m doing this in AS English lit listening to this whilst reading it will help me sm thank you
12:40. I love to hear how our forbears cursed. From Chaucer’s sweke to this modern biddy.
Thanks a lot for this book
It helped me🌻💐🙌👍🙏
i have a final exam on this novel. i am forcing myself to listen . under different circumstances i would have enjoyed it more. it's quit good. i feel like i am living in that Victorian age and I even find myself using some of their old words !
finally i finished it ! i don't sympathize with Henchard at all. the only one i felt sorry for was Elizabeth jane.
great..the novel I read 2004 till now
Not an English Accent but still a good speaker. Touch of Canadian there I think.
Definitely Canadian! I'm not Canadian but the narrator is! He did a great job!
We have heard of Dickens reading to American audience, are we reliving that through audio books.
We need to return to these days of the charivari.
Does anybody know if this reader has recorded any other books?
POV: you're here for A-level...
So far it's an awesome story..and we'll read ( hope it ends well )
Plz send skimmity ride in mayor of casterbridge
Spoiler alert EJ becomes all Zen at the end. Who knew Tom was a Buddhist???
Any g helpian?????
Isn't it LuCHetta and not Lucetta - ce in Italian is CH not S.
But surely she is half french
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Chapter 41
Chapter 20
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Sorry, can't do the lissssp.
Then you’d better avoid classic Spanish.
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Did you sob uncontrollably Aditi? I haven't cried, sobbed, this way after reading any novel, and I've read many.
The reader has a strong lisp, not something I can tolerate.
Grow up
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