Simon Evers

67 books

New Discussed TOP By time

Romance

1.2K

Anthony Trollope - Small House at Allington

Fifth novel in the Barsetshire series, The Small House at Allington is largely focused on the Small House's inhabitants, Mrs. Dale and her two marriageable daughters, Lily and Bell. The two girls, of course, have...

Nicholas Clifford and 13 more 25 hours 15 minutes Barsetshire Series by Anthony Trollope

No comments

Published 1800 -1900

931

Anthony Trollope - Three Clerks

The Three Clerks was Trollope’s sixth novel and was written mostly in railway carriages, since his work for the Post Office still entailed a good deal of travelling; to make life easier for himself, Trollope had...

alwpoe and 8 more 20 hours 45 minutes

No comments

General Fiction

928

Arnold Bennett - Hilda Lessways

This book is the second in Bennett’s four books about life in the Five Towns (the real life Potteries in Staffordshire). It tells the story of Hilda before her marriage to Edwin Clayhanger (from the first book)....

Simon Evers 11 hours 2 minutes The Clayhanger Family

No comments

General Fiction

833

Thomas Hardy - Hand of Ethelberta

Ethelberta was raised in humble circumstances but became a governess and consequently, at the age of 18, married well. However, her husband died two weeks after the wedding. Her father-in-law, Lord Petherwin, died...

Simon Evers 13 hours 46 minutes

No comments

Action & Adventure Fiction

876

John Buchan - Huntingtower

Dickson McCunn, a respectable, newly retired grocer, plans a walking holiday in the hills of south-west Scotland. He meets a young English poet and finds himself in the thick of a plot involving the kidnapping of a...

Simon Evers 7 hours 34 minutes

No comments

General Fiction

798

Thomas Hardy - Well-Beloved

'The Well-Beloved' tells the story of Jocelyn Pierston and his love for three generations of women — the grandmother, her daughter and grand-daughter over a period of forty years. Pierston is seeking for perfection in...

Simon Evers 6 hours 28 minutes

No comments

General Fiction

788

Anthony Trollope - John Caldigate

After a rather dissolute youth and having been disowned by his father, John Caldigate sets sail for Australia with his friend Dick Shand hoping to make his fortune in the goldfields in New South Wales. On the voyage,...

Simon Evers 19 hours 37 minutes

No comments

General Fiction

1K 1

Anthony Trollope - Lady Anna

When it appeared in 1874, Lady Anna met with little success, and positively outraged the conservative — `This is the sort of thing the reading public will never stand...a man must be embittered by some violent present...

Simon Evers 13 hours 8 minutes

No comments

General Fiction

833

Anthony Trollope - Claverings

«I consider the story as a whole to he good, though I am not aware that the public ever corroborated that verdict.» — the author The Claverings is the best wrought of the novels designed for The Cornhill, and as...

bobolink and 9 more 19 hours 56 minutes

No comments

General Fiction

910

Anthony Trollope - Rachel Ray

The love that develops between Luke Rowan and Rachel Ray is not universally welcomed. Mrs. Tappitt- a rich, influential, and bad woman — wishes him to marry one of her own daughters, while Rachel's mother and older...

bobolink and 6 more 13 hours 55 minutes

No comments

General Fiction

Anthony Trollope - Last Chronicle of Barset

Both Trollope and some of his later critics have considered The Last Chronicle to be his greatest novel. Many of its characters are familiar from the earlier Barsetshire novels, including the Rev. Josiah Crawley, the...

Nicholas Clifford and 10 more 35 hours 19 minutes Barsetshire Series by Anthony Trollope

No comments

Crime & Mystery Fiction

809

Short Mystery Story Collection 007

Librivox’s Short Mystery Story Collection 007: a collection of 16 short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox volunteers.

Simon Evers and 7 more 7 hours 47 minutes Short Mystery Collections

No comments

New

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

Show all