Author of Audiobooks - May Sinclair
The Flaw in the Crystal - May Sinclair
The Flaw in the Crystal - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Literary Fiction
One of May Sinclair’s “uncanny” stories, this novella explores many of Sinclair’s most treasured themes: the bounds of marriage, the conflict between flesh and spirit, the complexity of human emotions in relation to other humans, the practical...
A Journal of Impressions in Belgium - May Sinclair
A Journal of Impressions in Belgium - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
In 1914, at the age of 51, the novelist and poet May Sinclair volunteered to leave the comforts of England to go to the Western Front, joining the Munro Ambulance Corps ministering to wounded Belgian soldiers in Flanders. Her experiences in the...
The New Idealism - May Sinclair
The New Idealism - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Modern
The genius of May Sinclair lies in her brilliant bridging of the Victorian and the modern eras, in her determination never to become ossified in an outdated way of thought or of Art. Though a generation older than the famous literati of the postwar...
Anne Severn and the Fieldings - May Sinclair
Anne Severn and the Fieldings - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Written in an era of cheap, formulaic romantic fiction, the nuanced, seditious, quietly erotic novels of May Sinclair stand out like literature from another era entirely. There is romance in “Anne Severn & the Fieldings,” but it’s romance of the...
Life and Death of Harriett Frean - May Sinclair
Life and Death of Harriett Frean - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
Harriett Frean is a well-to-do, unmarried woman living a life of meaningless dependency, boredom, and unproductivity as she patiently cares for her aging parents, waiting for a man to marry. When her opportunity for Love finally comes, she is...
Tasker Jevons: The Real Story - May Sinclair
Tasker Jevons: The Real Story - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Literary Fiction
In this May Sinclair wartime masterpiece, dashing newsman Walter Furnival is an absurdly good catch: handsome, successful, athletic, intelligent, an upstanding epitome of manhood and rectitude. Tasker Jevons is a puny, preposterous,...
A Defence of Idealism - May Sinclair
A Defence of Idealism - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
The philosophy of Idealism, revived in eighteenth-century Europe by George Berkeley, argued against philosophical materialism by maintaining that Reality is a creation of the Mind. Despite its flourishing under the leadership of Hegel, Fichte,...
The Tree of Heaven - May Sinclair
The Tree of Heaven - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Literary Fiction / War & Military Fiction
One of the most heart-breaking of all World War I novels, this family epic was written in the midst of the War itself, and shows the intense emotion generated in ordinary lives by that tragedy. May Sinclair astonishingly weaves multiple themes into...
Two Sides of a Question - May Sinclair
Two Sides of a Question - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Short Stories
Here are two gemlike novellas in one volume, written in May Sinclair’s clearest and cleverest prose and exploring the many ways in which a woman can be held captive, held back from the “intoxication of freedom.” In “The Cosmopolitan,” Frida Tancred...
The Three Sisters - May Sinclair
The Three Sisters - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Fascinated as she was by the lives of the Brontë siblings, May Sinclair loosely based her subtly sensual, quietly insurrectionary 1914 novel The Three Sisters on the Haworth moor milieu of the three literary Brontë sisters. Alice, Gwenda, and Mary...
Mr. Waddington of Wyck - May Sinclair
Mr. Waddington of Wyck - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Literary Fiction
May Sinclair’s 1921 novel tells the story of the ridiculous Mr. Horatio Bysshe Waddington, a pompous, self-deluded poser making his way through life caring only for the impressions he makes on others. His long-suffering wife Fanny, his secretary...
The Romantic - May Sinclair
The Romantic - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Literary Fiction
As a simple story told, "The Romantic" is one of Sinclair’s tightest and most compelling. Charlotte Redhead, a young British secretary, finds herself in a degrading extra-marital affair with her boss. In reaction, she renounces Sex and links herself...
The Tysons - May Sinclair
The Tysons - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance / Satire
Another frank May Sinclair exploration of fin de siècle English love and sex, marriage and adultery, "The Tysons" is the story of the caddish Nevill Tyson and his beautiful but frivolous young wife Molly. Sinclair uses a different narrative voice...
The Combined Maze - May Sinclair
The Combined Maze - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Ranny Ransome is an idealistic young man, devoted to exuberant gymnastic exercises and to fighting “flabbiness” in his own life, body and soul. He loves the girlish and athletic Winny Dymond, and particularly loves participating with her in the...
Audrey Craven - May Sinclair
Audrey Craven - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Literary Fiction
In May Sinclair’s remarkable first novel, Audrey Craven is a beautiful young woman who has by her idiosyncracies acquired a thoroughly undeserved reputation for originality. In fact, Audrey is a shallow, selfish, malleable person of negligible...
The Creators: A Comedy - May Sinclair
The Creators: A Comedy - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Jane Holland is a genius, the greatest of a group of extraordinary literary friends. She has an intense artistic and intellectual kinship with George Tanqueray, another remarkable novelist. Despite this keen spiritual relationship, both Holland and...
The Immortal Moment - May Sinclair
The Immortal Moment - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Literary Fiction
This is one of the later works of May Sinclair – a prolific author, literary critic, and feminist activist – famous in Britain and the US after the 1904 publication of The Divine Fire. The Immortal Moment concerns the defining episode in the life of...
The Judgment of Eve - May Sinclair
The Judgment of Eve - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: General Fiction / Literary Fiction / Satire
May Sinclair was a prolific author, literary critic, and feminist activist, famous in Britain and the US in the 1910’s and 20’s. The Judgment of Eve, like most of her novels, uses irony and understatement to expose the hypocrisy of the social order...
Uncanny Stories - May Sinclair
Uncanny Stories - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Single Author Collections
May Sinclair’s Uncanny Stories is a collection of short stories filled with macabre, romantic, and Gothic themes. Enjoy tales of love and loss, murder, philosophy, and supernatural happenings. Summary by RhiannonD....