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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Cousin Phillis Author: Elizabeth Gaskell Narrator: Peter Joyce Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins Language: English Release date: 10-26-10 Publisher: Assembled Stories Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 14 votes Genres: Classics, British Literature Publisher's Summary: The tale of a rural habitation in the late 19th century and the effect of industrialisation on the local community. Seventeen-year-old Phillis lives on Hope Farm with her parents Minister Ebenezer Holman and his simple wife. Her second cousin Paul Manning, at first reluctantly, comes to visit. He is the son of a rising inventor from Birmingham and is employed as a clerk to Edward Holdsworth, the managing engineer of a railway company laying a line close to the farm. When Paul introduces his new employer and friend to Phillis he little realises the traumatic effect this will have on the young girl. Elizabeth Gaskell is never judgemental and sketches