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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…