Simon Evers
8 libri letti per LibriVox
- Harry Heathcote of Gangoil EnglishYou get a compact, quietly tense Trollope about Harry Heathcote trying to protect Gangoil, his family, and his workers as bushfires threaten the Australian station. It has the familiar pleasure of watching a decent, anxious man choose responsibility over comfort, though the Christmas sentiment runs a little warm.
- Huntingtower EnglishA retired Glasgow grocer takes a walking holiday and stumbles into rescuing a Russian princess, backed by a gang of scrappy slum kids called the Gorbals Die-Hards. It's a gentler, funnier Buchan than the Hannay books, and Dickson McCunn's reluctant middle-aged courage is oddly touching.
- Lady Rose’s Daughter EnglishJulie Le Breton is a great creation, a companion who quietly steals her employer's whole salon just by being smarter and warmer than everyone in it, then makes some genuinely bad romantic choices. If you like slow Edwardian drawing-room politics with real moral weight, this rewards patience.
- Moonfleet EnglishYou follow John Trenchard through the Dorset village of Moonfleet, where smugglers, churchyards, and hidden passages give the story a wonderfully shadowy texture. The prose is old-fashioned and occasionally melodramatic, but the bond between John and the brooding Elzevir Block gives this adventure real feeling beneath its treasure-hunt machinery.
- Rachel Ray EnglishYou’ll like Rachel Ray for its quiet pressure: Rachel’s love for Luke Rowan has to survive village gossip, a domineering sister, and her mother’s anxious idea of respectability. It’s a slower, domestic Trollope, but his dry eye for small-town judgment makes Rachel’s eventual steadiness feel hard-won rather than sugary.
- The Claverings EnglishHarry Clavering gets jilted for a rich old lord, then finds the widow back on his doorstep just after he's engaged to someone kinder, and Trollope refuses to make him a hero or a villain. If you like watching a decent, weak man squirm honestly, this is quietly satisfying.
- The Last Chronicle of Barset EnglishMr. Crawley, a proud, half-broken country curate accused of stealing a twenty-pound cheque, is one of the most painfully real people Trollope ever wrote, and you'll ache for him. It's long and unhurried, but if you like character over plot, this rewards every page.
- The Nebuly Coat EnglishYou have to like slow, moldering atmosphere for this one: a young architect sent to shore up a crumbling minster tower, an organist with theories, a lord whose coat of arms hides a question of blood. The arch never sleeps, someone warns, and Falkner makes you believe it.