Classic fiction (pre c 1945) – The Bell Bookshop

Sign of Four

Emma — Sun, 01 Jun 2098 00:00:00 +0000

Since her father disappeared ten years ago, Mary has received annually and anonymously a pearl. When she is finally requested to meet the stranger she is accompanied by Holmes and Watson. The stranger relates to them a tale of secrecy, hidden treasure and sudden death.

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Emma — Wed, 01 Jan 2098 00:00:00 +0000

This audiobook features four Sherlock Holmes stories: "The Engineer's Thumb"; "The Noble Batchelor"; "The Beryl Coronet"; and "The Copper Beeches".

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Emma — Tue, 01 Oct 2097 00:00:00 +0000

This tape features stories originally published under the title of "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", and includes such tales as "The Five Orange Pips", "The Man with the Twisted Lip", The Adventures of the Blue Carbuncle", and "The Adventures of the Speckled Band".

North and South

Emma — Sun, 01 Sep 2097 00:00:00 +0000

When Margaret is compelled to leave her beloved Hampshire home and move North, she is brought face to face with the realities of urban life and her social conscience awakens. Her relationship with mill-owner John Thornton combines passionate attraction with fierce opposition.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Emma — Mon, 01 Jul 2097 00:00:00 +0000

Mark Twain’s best-loved tale, often thought to epitomise the best of American Literature, is the story of a white boy, a black man, and a mighty river. Huck Finn, the urchin who won’t be beaten down by his drunken father or civilized by the wido Douglas, teams up with Jim, the runaway slave, and together they set sail on the Mississippi – on a journey to freedom.

Our Mutual Friend

Emma — Sat, 01 Jun 2097 00:00:00 +0000

A rich and complex pattern of theme, symbol, comic exuberance, sharp social comment and telling detail - these are all aspects of "our mutual friend". The book begins like "Little Dorrit", as a satire on wealth and its corrupting power, symbolized by the inheritance of a dust-heap and represented by the changing fortunes of Boffin, the golden dustman, and by the brilliant portrayal of the upstart veneerings and their circle. In this book, there is a new preoccupation with the Dickensian genius resulting in a greater inwardness and a fascination with extreme situations. In the last novel that he completed, Dickens seemed to be about to make yet another advance in the practice of his art.

Wuthering Heights

Emma — Sun, 01 Apr 2096 00:00:00 +0000

In a house haunted by memories, the past is everywhere … As darkness falls, a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange, grim house Wuthering Heights. It is a place he will never forget. There he will come to learn the story of Cathy: how she was forced to choose between her well-meaning husband and the dangerous man she had loved since she was young. How her choice led to betrayal and terrible revenge – and continues to torment those in the present. How love can transgress authority, convention, even death. And how desire can kill.

David Copperfield

Emma — Wed, 01 Feb 2096 00:00:00 +0000

This is the novel Dickens regarded as his ‘favourite child’ and is considered his most autobiographical. As David recounts his experience from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist, Dickens draws openly and revealingly on his own life. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters are Rosa Dartle, Dora, Steerforth, and the ‘umble Uriah Heep, along with Mr Micawber, a portrait of Dickens’s own father which evokes the mixture of love, nostalgia and guilt.

Scarlet Letter

Emma — Sat, 01 Oct 2095 00:00:00 +0000

Set in the harsh Puritan community of 17th century Boston, this is a tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth and the public humiliation of Hester Prynne.