Abandoned
Author(s): William Clark Russell
Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction, Nautical & Marine Fiction, Romance
Narrators: Patti Cunningham, TriciaG, Anna Starzyk, Terence Taylor, Barbara Derksen, Gary Olman, Jacquerie, Thelma Meyer, Joshua, Ruth Golding
Number of Chapters: 16
Length: 9 hours and 31 minutes
Language: English
We meet Miss Lucretia Lane as she is dressing for her marriage to Captain Francis Reynolds of the British Merchant Service. Though he loves her truly, she has severe misgivings. She goes through with the wedding in spite of this, but refuses to live with her new husband, and cannot be enticed or cajoled to do so. Then on the day the Captain is scheduled to ship out, she receives word that he has been gravely injured and his dying request is to see his wife. She flies to his side... and thus begins an adventure spanning eight years - love, loathing, shipwreck, love lost, and redemption. (Summary by P. Cunningham and Nadine Eckert-Boulet)