Simon Evers

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Published 1900 onward

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Arnold Bennett - Pretty Lady

‘The Pretty Lady’ is considered to be one of Bennett's most revealing and under-rated works. It is the story of a French prostitute, Christine, who has escaped from wartime Ostend, and set herself up in business in...

Simon Evers 8 hours 9 minutes

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Children's Fiction

562

John Meade Falkner - Moonfleet

The novel is set in a fishing village in Dorset during the mid 18th century. The story concerns a 15 year old orphan boy, John Trenchard, who becomes friends with an older man who turns out to be the leader of a gang...

Graham Redman and 7 more 7 hours 58 minutes

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Historical Fiction

445

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

511

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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Crime & Mystery Fiction

488

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

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

453

Short Mystery Story Collection 005

LibriVox’s Short Mystery Story Collection 005: a collection of 10 short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

SaPaSing and 6 more 7 hours 46 minutes Short Mystery Collections

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Action & Adventure Fiction

492

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

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Published 1800 -1900

546

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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Historical Fiction

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Anthony Trollope - Linda Tressel

Linda Tressel lives a lonely life with her domineering aunt, Madame Staubach, in a large house in Nuremberg. Madame Staubach takes in the odious and much older Peter Steinmarc as a lodger and plans that Linda should...

Simon Evers 6 hours 40 minutes

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General Fiction

456

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

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Historical Fiction

465

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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Crime & Mystery Fiction

480

Short Mystery Story Collection 006

Librivox’s Short Mystery Story Collection 006: a collection of 10 short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Simon Evers and 4 more 6 hours 19 minutes Short Mystery Collections

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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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