Andy Minter (1934-2017)
59 books
Historical Fiction
1000
William Harrison Ainsworth - Lancashire Witches
The Lancashire Witches is a highly fictionalised account of the activities of the notorious witches Demdike, Chattox and Alice Nutter who, together with others terrorised the district of Lancashire around Pendle...
25 hours 14 minutes
Published 1800 -1900
1.2K
Anthony Trollope - Barchester Towers
This is the second in Trollope’s ‘Barsetshire’ series of novels. The later novels in the series move away from Barchester itself but 'Barchester Towers' is very much a sequel to the first book ‘The Warden’, which is...
22 hours 25 minutes
Anthologies
1.3K
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 4
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern , is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering «American households a mass of good reading», the editors drew from...
21 hours 59 minutes
General Fiction
1.2K
Charles Dickens - Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People
Sketches by Boz is a collection of short pieces published by Charles Dickens in 1836 accompanied by illustrations by George Cruikshank. It consists of 56 passages divided into four sections: «Our Parish», «Scenes»,...
21 hours 57 minutes
Historical Fiction
1.3K
William Makepeace Thackeray - History of Henry Esmond, Esq., A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne
A classic Victorian novel and a historical novel rolled into one! Read about court and army life during the reign of Queen Anne — a story of Catholic — Protestant intrigue, and the party which aspired to the...
19 hours 21 minutes
General Fiction
1.1K
John Galsworthy - In Chancery (Forsyte Saga Vol. 2)
'The Forsyte Saga' is the story of a wealthy London family stretching from the eighteen-eighties until the nineteen-twenties. In Chancery is the second book in the saga. Five years have passed since Irene left...
13 hours 34 minutes
