Linda Tressel

Linda Tressel lives a lonely life with her domineering aunt, Madame Staubach, in a large house in Nuremberg. Madame Staubach takes in the odious and much older Peter Steinmarc as a lodger and plans that Linda should marry him – entirely against Linda’s will. Meanwhile Linda falls in love with Ludovic Valcalm, a disreputable young man. The book follows Linda’s fortunes. - Summary by Simon Evers (6 hr 40 min)

Chapters

Chapter 1	26:05	Read by Simon Evers
Chapter 2	22:18	Read by Simon Evers
Chapter 3	25:16	Read by Simon Evers
Chapter 4	25:11	Read by Simon Evers
Chapter 5	49:12	Read by Simon Evers
Chapter 6	24:59	Read by Simon Evers
Chapter 7	12:56	Read by Simon Evers
Chapter 8	13:11	Read by Simon Evers
Chapter 9	52:07	Read by Simon Evers
Chapter 10	24:40	Read by Simon Evers
Chapter 11	13:31	Read by Simon Evers
Chapter 12	12:32	Read by Simon Evers
Chapter 13	25:14	Read by Simon Evers
Chapter 14	24:02	Read by Simon Evers
Chapter 15	17:04	Read by Simon Evers
Chapter 16	18:55	Read by Simon Evers
Chapter 17	13:33	Read by Simon Evers

Reviews

(3 stars)

Stella McQueen

The whole time I was internally screaming that the house was hers, evict Peter, put the aunt in her place!! But I guess she had been so pulverised by her aunt's religion that she practically had Stockholm syndrome. Well written, well read (though the high and low pitched character voices bordered on Pythonesque). One star for being an unrelenting horrible story (which I knew going into it and selected it for that) and four stars for the reading.

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(1.5 stars)

tootsie

Excellent reader, always enjoy Simon Evers reading. But apathetic story! Very well written though! If it was a true story it might be OK but for fiction it was awful. Who would want to read or write a story with an ending like that

(4.5 stars)

juan carlos simon casal

a very good example of the modern within nineteenth century, great

Misery, misery, misery. . . then she dies.

(2 stars)

Lynda Smith

kam. rather drawn out.do like the reader

(2 stars)

A LibriVox Listener

Oh My...

(5 stars)

jenniebrown

As a Trollope fan I was looking forward to this book which is well done, of course. I’m wrung out emotionally from wanting to strangle the aunt through the entire story! Simon Evers is the main reason to listen. The young woman, Linda, is of singular innocence which makes this a very sad story indeed.

Horrible story

(1 stars)

Julia D

I spent most of this story being frustrated with all the characters for one reason or another. The ending was not happy which is a definite downer for me. The reading however was excellent.