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Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (Version 2)

Read by Tony Foster

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

"Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life" was Mrs Gaskell's first full-length novel. It was published anonymously in that tumultuou…

The Rainbow (Version 2)

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D. H. Lawrence

Briefly appearing in 1915, then banned and taken out of circulation for its adult treatment of sexuality, Lawrence's visionary novel The Rai…

Sons and Lovers (Version 2)

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D. H. Lawrence

Lawrence summarised the plot of Sons and Lovers in a letter to Edward Garnett in 1912:“It follows this idea: a woman of character and refine…

The Lost Girl

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D. H. Lawrence

"There is no mistake about it, Alvina was a lost girl. She was cut off from everything she belonged to."In this most under-valued …

Havelok the Dane: A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln

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Charles Watts Whistler

Troy, Athens, Rome... each has its founding legend. So too does the Lincolnshire town of Grimsby, once the largest fishing port in the world…

The Absence and Return of Mr. Harry Chatteris

In The Sea Lady

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H. G. Wells

The Sea Lady is a novel written by H. G. Wells. It was serialized from July to December 1901 in Pearson's Magazine before being published by…

His Other Self

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 025

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W. W. Jacobs

A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

The Man Martians Made

In Short Science Fiction Collection 051

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Frank Belknap Long

Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…