Simon Evers

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Family Life

656

Anthony Trollope - Harry Heathcote of Gangoil

Harry Heathcote is an English ‘squatter’ who runs a huge sheep station at Gangoil in Queensland, Australia. His wife Mary and her older sister Kate live with him. Giles Medlicott owns a sugar plantation and mill...

Simon Evers 3 hours 46 minutes

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Historical Fiction

588

Basil King - Side of the Angels

The book is set in New England in the early 20th century in an old established community where times are rapidly changing but nonetheless the rules of a hierarchical society still hold good. Thor, a rich doctor from...

Simon Evers 12 hours 7 minutes

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Historical Fiction

446

Mary Cholmondeley - Notwithstanding

The book starts with Annette Georges choosing between two fates: suicide and running away with a disreputable stranger. She is rescued by a kind woman who looks after her until she can go to live with her maiden aunts...

Simon Evers 8 hours 39 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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Historical Fiction

461

Basil King - Dust Flower

Rashleigh Allerton, a wealthy New Yorker, quarrels with his well-to-do fiancée Barbara and impetuously says that he will marry instead the first person he meets. The book follows the result of this absurd promise,...

Simon Evers 8 hours 58 minutes

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Historical Fiction

461

Basil King - Thread of Flame

Edward wakes up on board a ship crossing the Atlantic, on his return from the Great War – however, he finds that his memory of who he is and where he comes from is only fragmentary. The book follows his fascinating...

Simon Evers 8 hours 10 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

477

Arnold Bennett - Clayhanger (Version 2)

A coming-of-age story about Edwin Clayhanger, who leaves school, has his ambition to become an architect thwarted by his tyrannical father, Darius, and so works in the family printing business. Edwin eventually takes...

Simon Evers 19 hours 22 minutes

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Historical Fiction

495

Basil King - Empty Sack

The book follows the fortunes of Jennie Follett, a New York artist’s model, and Teddy, her brother. After their father’s dismissal from his lowly position in the bank and his subsequent death, the family struggles...

Simon Evers 10 hours 25 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

469

Arnold Bennett - Lilian

Lilian works in a typewriting office owned by Felix Grig, a middle-aged man of means. The office is run by his spinster sister, Miss Grig, who suspects that Felix is more interested in Lilian than perhaps he should be...

Simon Evers 4 hours 54 minutes

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Historical Fiction

483

Katherine Cecil Thurston - Max

On a trans-continental train journey into Paris, Max, a young adventurer determined to make his way as an artist, meets Blake, a well-to-do Irishman. Blake helps Max set up a studio in Montmartre and they enjoy the...

Simon Evers 8 hours 49 minutes

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Historical Fiction

492

William John Locke - Septimus

The book concerns the tangled lives of four people: Zora, a young widow who seeks some purpose in her life; Septimus Dix, an other-wordly but kind-hearted inventor of hopeless things; Clem Sypher, a larger than life...

Simon Evers 8 hours 46 minutes

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Historical Fiction

476

Arnold Bennett - Mr. Prohack

Mr Prohack, an ordinary official in the Treasury and leading a hum-drum life, suddenly and unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money which, with a lucky investment, he turns into a fortune. This humorous book follows...

Simon Evers 12 hours 11 minutes

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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

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