Hilda Lessways
Arnold Bennett
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Length 11 h 2 min
Chapters 36
First published 1911
This book is the second in Bennett’s four books about life in the Five Towns (the real life Potteries in Staffordshire). It tells the story of Hilda before her marriage to Edwin Clayhanger (from the first book). Bennett explores Hilda's ambition to make a career for herself, her coming of age and her working experiences as a shorthand clerk and keeper of a lodging house in London and Brighton. He also shows her intensifying relationship with the enigmatic George Cannon that ends in her disastrous bigamous marriage and pregnancy, and finally her reconciliation with Edwin Clayhanger (Summary by Simon Evers)
Chapters
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Book 1, Chapter 1 Read by Simon Evers 16:03
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Book 1, Chapter 2 Read by Simon Evers 13:34
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Book 1, Chapter 3 Read by Simon Evers 15:49
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Book 1, Chapter 4 Read by Simon Evers 20:47
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Book 1, Chapter 5 Read by Simon Evers 13:54
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Book 1, Chapter 6 Read by Simon Evers 22:36
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Book 1, Chapter 7 Read by Simon Evers 16:05
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Book 1, Chapter 8 Read by Simon Evers 12:33
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Book 1, Chapter 9 Read by Simon Evers 12:07
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Book 1, Chapter 10 Read by Simon Evers 14:23
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Book 1, Chapter 11 Read by Simon Evers 12:20
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Book 1, Chapter 12 Read by Simon Evers 13:25
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Book 1, Chapter 13 Read by Simon Evers 17:14
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Book 1, Chapter 14 Read by Simon Evers 14:25
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Book 2, Chapter 1 Read by Simon Evers 17:59
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Book 2, Chapter 2 Read by Simon Evers 23:19
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Book 2, Chapter 3 Read by Simon Evers 15:23
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Book 2, Chapter 4 Read by Simon Evers 17:15
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Book 2, Chapter 5 Read by Simon Evers 13:59
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Book 2, Chapter 6 Read by Simon Evers 13:53
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Book 2, Chapter 7 Read by Simon Evers 14:42
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Book 3, Chapter 1 Read by Simon Evers 19:33
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Book 3, Chapter 2 Read by Simon Evers 22:10
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Book 3, Chapter 3 Read by Simon Evers 23:28
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Book 3, Chapter 4 Read by Simon Evers 30:54
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Book 4, Chapter 1 Read by Simon Evers 16:55
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Book 4, Chapter 2 Read by Simon Evers 30:49
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Book 4, Chapter 3 Read by Simon Evers 25:49
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Book 5, Chapter 1 Read by Simon Evers 24:29
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Book 5, Chapter 2 Read by Simon Evers 28:04
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Book 6, Chapter 1 Read by Simon Evers 24:42
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Book 6, Chapter 2 Read by Simon Evers 9:06
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Book 6, Chapter 3 Read by Simon Evers 19:48
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Book 6, Chapter 4 Read by Simon Evers 13:40
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Book 6, Chapter 5 Read by Simon Evers 22:09
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Book 6, Chapter 6 Read by Simon Evers 19:06
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