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The Mountebank
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
Andrew Lackaday, an English orphan, was born and brought up in a French circus. He becomes a highly skilled mimic and juggler. He plies his …
Huntingtower
Read by Simon Evers
John Buchan
Dickson McCunn, a respectable, newly retired grocer, plans a walking holiday in the hills of south-west Scotland. He meets a young English p…
The History of David Grieve
Read by Simon Evers
Mary Augusta Ward
The book follows the life and times of David Grieve, from his childhood on a remote farm in the Peak District to Manchester, Paris and back …
The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
Marcus Ordeyne is a middle aged bachelor schoolmaster who has inherited both money and a title and thus is able to lead a life of leisure. O…
Helen with the High Hand
Read by Simon Evers
Arnold Bennett
James Ollerenshaw is a middle-aged, wealthy bachelor who lives in Bursley, one of the Five Towns. A chance encounter with Helen, his great s…
Andrew the Glad (Dramatic Reading)
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Maria Thompson Daviess
"There are some women who will brew mystery from the decoction of even a very simple life. Matilda is one of them, remarked the major t…
The Gambler (version 2)
Read by Simon Evers
Katherine Cecil Thurston
The book follows the life of Clodagh Asshlin, an Irish girl brought up with her younger sister by her spendthrift father in the wilds of the…
Sacred and Profane Love
Read by Simon Evers
Arnold Bennett
Carlotta Peel is an unusual young woman – clever, self-opinionated, a brilliant author and yearning to love and be loved but also to serve h…
The Saint 51 01 14 Simon Takes A Curtain Call
An actor friend of Simon's has come to believe someone's life may be in danger and seeks Simon's help.
Saint's Progress
Read by Simon Evers
John Galsworthy
Edward Pierson is the widowed vicar of a London church. He has two daughters, Eve and Noel, who is 17. In essence, the novel follows the bat…
The Masquerader (Version 2)
Read by Simon Evers
Katherine Cecil Thurston
In the London fog, two men bump into each other one night. They are immediately unnerved by their exact resemblance to each other. Jack Chil…
Buried Alive
Read by Simon Evers
Arnold Bennett
The hero is Mr Priam Farll, a painter of considerable ability. He is, however, extremely shy – so shy that when his valet, Henry Leek, dies …
Robert Elsmere
Read by Simon Evers
Mary Augusta Ward
Essentially the book covers the life of Robert Elsmere, a boyishly intellectual clergyman. The first part covers his meeting with and eventu…
The Tale of Triona
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
Olivia is a newly orphaned young woman looking for adventure and excitement. She rents out her house to Blaise Olifant whose friend Alexis T…
Leonora
Read by Simon Evers
Arnold Bennett
Leonora Stanway is 40 and lives a comfortable middle-class life with her unsympathetic and dull husband, John. Her three daughters are rapid…
The Wonderful Year
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
Martin Overshaw and Corinna Hastings are leading dull and unproductive lives in Paris, having fled humdrum England. They fall in with Fortin…
One-Act Play Collection 009
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
Ninth volume of one-act plays in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members. A Dramatic Evening Narrator: April6090 Mr Thaddeu…
The Ghost: A Modern Fantasy
Read by Simon Evers
Arnold Bennett
The novel opens with Carl Foster, a recently qualified doctor, coming to London to try and make his fortune. He meets a famous tenor, Signor…
Clayhanger (Version 2)
Read by Simon Evers
Arnold Bennett
A coming-of-age story about Edwin Clayhanger, who leaves school, has his ambition to become an architect thwarted by his tyrannical father, …