Simon Evers

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Historical Fiction

466

Mary Cholmondeley - Diana Tempest

Colonel Tempest, his wastrel son Archie and beautiful daughter Diana (Di) are dismayed when they are cut out of the will of old Mr Tempest, Colonel Tempest’s brother. All of the Tempest fortune and estates at...

Simon Evers 12 hours 12 minutes

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Historical Fiction

505

Arnold Bennett - Leonora

Leonora Stanway is 40 and lives a comfortable middle-class life with her unsympathetic and dull husband, John. Her three daughters are rapidly growing up and away and she regrets that her life has become dull,...

Simon Evers 7 hours 47 minutes

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Historical Fiction

433

Basil King - Inner Shrine

At the opening of this story Diane Eveleth returns from a party in Paris to her mother-in-law, who tells her that her husband George Eveleth has been killed in a duel, fought with the Marquis de Bienville. Diane...

Simon Evers 7 hours 53 minutes

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Historical Fiction

408

Mary Augusta Ward - Marriage of William Ashe

William Ashe, an up and coming politician, impulsively marries Kitty, a young, flighty and strange girl who, far from supporting her husband in his career, instead does exactly as she pleases. The book follows the...

Simon Evers 15 hours 7 minutes

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Historical Fiction

438

Mary Cholmondeley - Red Pottage

The book follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with the weak-willed Hugh Scarlett after he has broken off an affair with Lady...

Simon Evers 12 hours 11 minutes

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Historical Fiction

436

John Galsworthy - Fraternity

A satire of middle-class complacency and artistic aspiration. It is the story of a strange bohemian upper-class love triangle, and of a mystic tract. (Summary by Simon Evers)

Simon Evers 10 hours 13 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

470

William John Locke - Simon the Jester

Simon de Gex, a wealthy and successful MP, is diagnosed with a terminal illness and decides to use his last few months using his wealth and influence to do good. In particular, he determines to guide his protégé and...

Simon Evers 10 hours 4 minutes

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Historical Fiction

451

Arnold Bennett - Great Man: a Frolic

Subtitled 'A Frolic', this light-hearted book follows the fortunes of Henry Shakespeare Knight who, rather to his own surprise, writes a best-selling novel. (Summary by Simon Evers)

Simon Evers 6 hours 21 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

533

Anthony Trollope - Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite

Sir Harry Hotspur’s only son and heir dies young which means that the title goes to a cousin, George Hotspur. Sir Harry wants the ancestral property to go to his daughter, Emily, and hopes that a future husband will...

Simon Evers 6 hours 54 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

443

John Galsworthy - Patrician

The book revolves around the story of two love affairs. Miltoun (an aspiring politician) proposes to Mrs Audrey Noel, only to find that she is not a widow as everyone supposes, but that her husband is still alive and...

Simon Evers 9 hours 49 minutes

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Historical Fiction

496

John Galsworthy - Beyond

Gyp, the daughter of ex-Major Charles Claire Winton, at the age of 23 marries Fiorsen, a Swedish violin virtuoso. Her mother, the wife of another man, has been Winton's mistress; she had died when Gyp was born. A...

Simon Evers 12 hours 20 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

428

Thomas Hardy - Laodicean

The Laodicean (someone whose religious beliefs are “lukewarm”) of the title is Paula Power who bought the ancient castle De Stancy which she is determined to restore. Being of a modern frame of mind, she has the...

Simon Evers 14 hours 19 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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