A Fair Mystery

About this film

LibriVox recording of A Fair Mystery by Charlotte M Brame. Read in English by Arie; Elanor Sakamoto; Gabriela Cowan; Lynne Thompson; Marsha Payne; Mike Pelton; Petra; SamR; Sandra Estenson (Written by Charlotte M. Brame under the pen name Bertha M. Clay.) Honest Mark Brace is about to lose his farm, land of his ancestors, home to his wife, Patty, and small daughter, Mattie, when out of a dark and stormy night comes the answer to his prayers. A tiny babe, tender and fair, left on their doorstep with a note asking Mark and Patty to bring the child up as their own, to raise it to be good, like themselves, and to accept for their troubles a hundred pounds a year. The farm is saved, and all is peaceful for a while as the beautiful baby, Doris, grows into an even more beautiful child. But as she grows, so too grows her awareness of her own loveliness, of her difference from the humble farmers who raise her. Doris hungers for luxury, jewels and velvet, bright fetes and ardent admirers. Confident that her ethereal beauty and native wit will bring her everything she deserves, she focuses her energies on obtaining these things and sets in motion a chain of events that will break hearts, rip…

Directors & creators

Charlotte M Brame

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;

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