![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Bleak House - Charles Dickens
Librivox recording of the Bleak House by Charles Dickens. Read by Cynthia Lyons. Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly parts between March 1852 and September 1853. It is widely held to be one of Dickens’ finest and most complete novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. Dickens tells all of these both through the narrative of the novel’s heroine, Esther Summerson, and as an ...
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Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; Bleak House; Charles Dickens; Esther Summerson; Tulkinghorn; John Jarndyce; Harold Skimpole
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| Queen Lucia - Edward Frederic Benson
Librivox recording of Queen Lucia by E.F. Benson. Read by Martin Clifton. E. F. Benson (1867-1940) was born at Wellington College in Berkshire, where his father, who later went on to become the Archbishop of Canterbury, was the first Headmaster. He wrote 105 books in all. Queen Lucia (first published in 1920) was the first of Benson’s ‘Mapp and Lucia’ novels of which there were six. This first book is a comedy of manners based in the provincial village of Riseholme, where Emmeline Lucas (t...
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Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; E.F. Benson; Emmeline Lucas; Riseholme
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