Simon Evers
The Money Moon (version 2)
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John Jeffery Farnol
George Bellew, an American millionaire is in London, where he is jilted by his ladylove. He sets off to travel on an aimless adventure throu…
Robert Elsmere
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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…
Lady Rose's Daughter (Version 2)
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Mary Augusta Ward
Julie le Breton is the illegitimate daughter of Lady Rose, who severed her relations with her aristocratic family when she had the baby and …
The Courtship of Susan Bell
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Anthony Trollope
Susan lives with her overbearing sister in a boarding house in Saratoga Springs run by their timid mother. A knock on the door brings an une…
Missing
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Mary Augusta Ward
It is 1915 and Nelly and Lieutenant George Sarratt have recently married. After a blissful but brief honeymoon in the Lake District, George …
Viviette
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William John Locke
Viviette is a headstrong young girl who is pursued by two brothers: Austin, a headstrong man of the world and a barrister in London, and Dic…
Stella Maris
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William John Locke
Stellamaris is a young paralysed girl who is confined to a bed in the Channel House overlooking the English Channel. She is cared for by her…
A Study in Shadows
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William John Locke
Among the mixture of people spending the summer in a pension (boarding house) in Geneva are Felicia, a 20-year-old, and Katherine (30) who b…
A Man from the North
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Arnold Bennett
Richard Larch, a young man from the north of England, arrives in London to seek his fortune. By day he works as a clerk in an office but has…
Idols
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William John Locke
The novel centres around four people: Gerard and Irene Merriam, their inseparable friend Hugh Colman who once saved Gerard’s life, and Minna…
The Island Pharisees
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John Galsworthy
Richard Shelton is wrestling with his conscience. As a member of the upper class at a time when the British Empire is at its height, he sees…
The Freelands
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John Galsworthy
The Freelands family is a mixture: Tod Freeland is an uncommunicative gentle giant, his wife Kirsteen passionate and free-spoken, Felix is a…
Saint's Progress
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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 Street Called Straight
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Basil King
Henry Guion, a rich and successful American businessman, faces complete ruin and jail as he has embezzled all his client’s money. He tells h…
At the Gate of Samaria
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William John Locke
The novel is set in the 1890’s. Clytie Davenant is a headstrong young woman who escapes from the stultifying country life of her family to m…
The Coryston Family
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Mary Augusta Ward
Lady Coryston has inherited her husband’s estate but surprisingly has not left it on her death to Coryston (known as Corry) her oldest son. …
The Danvers Jewels
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Mary Cholmondeley
Colonel Middleton is entrusted by his critically ill military superior, Sir John Danvers, with carrying some valuable family jewels from Ind…
Simon Called Peter
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Robert Keable
Peter, a conventional Anglican priest, becomes a padre in northern France during the First World War. He is posted to a hospital on the coas…
Sacred and Profane Love
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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 Broad Highway (Version 2)
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John Jeffery Farnol
Peter Vibart is expected to inherit the fortune and title of his uncle but will only inherit if he marries Lady Sophia, the toast of the tow…