Fiction
Three Thousand Dollars
Read by Roger Melin
Anna Katharine Green
This short story by Anna Katharine Green revolves around a plot to steal some goods secured safely within an impenetrable vault within the c…
Stepping Heavenward
Read by Theresa L. Downey
Elizabeth Prentiss
How dreadfully old I am getting! Sixteen!" Thus begins the lifelong diary of young Katherine as she pours out her hopes, dreams, and sp…
Castles in the Air
Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
Baroness Emma Orczy
Baroness Emma Orczy (full name: Emma ("Emmuska") Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orczi) (Septe…
Just So Stories
Read by Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019)
Rudyard Kipling
The Just So Stories for Little Children are among Kipling's best known and loved works. This recording aims to be the first complete audio b…
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
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Gaston Leroux
This crime novel was possibly the first to involve a 'locked room mystery', in which an attempted murder takes place, but with no obvious wa…
The Quest of the Silver Fleece
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W. E. B. Du Bois
The Quest of the Silver Fleece is a story of romance, race, economics and politics set around the 1900s. Here, a traditionally educated boy …
Penrod
Read by Jonathan Burchard
Booth Tarkington
Join Penrod Schofield and his wistful dog Duke, in a hilarious romp through turn of the century Indianapolis, chronicling his life, loves, a…
Ethan Frome
Read by Bob Neufeld
Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome is a novel published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of St…
The Flying Inn
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G. K. Chesterton
The Flying Inn is a novel first published in 1914 by G.K. Chesterton. It is set in a future England where a bizarre form of "Progressiv…
Three Men in a Boat
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Jerome K. Jerome
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Th…
Isobel
Read by Roger Melin
James Oliver Curwood
Action, intrigue, and a touch of romance in the farthest reaches of northern Canada. Sergeant Billy MacVeigh of the Canadian Northwest Mount…
The Valley of the Giants
Read by Roger Melin
Peter B. Kyne
The man was John Cardigan; in that lonely, hostile land he was the first pioneer. This is the tale of Cardigan and Cardigan's son, for in hi…
The Teeth of the Tiger
Read by Cate Barratt
Maurice Leblanc
Maurice Leblanc delivers another Arsene Lupin adventure set in World War I. (Summary by Cathy Barratt)
Our Mutual Friend
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Charles Dickens
Dickens' last complete novel was published serially 1864-5. It begins with an intriguing fortune offered to John Harmon by his late father, …
Helen's Babies
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
John Habberton
In this hilarious novel, Harry Burton, a bachelor white-goods salesman, goes to take care of his sister Helen's two little boys for ten days…
Midnight
Read by Roger Melin
Octavus Roy Cohen
The crime seemed to have lost itself in the sleety cold of the December midnight upon which it was committed. The trails were not blind--the…
Metamorphosis
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Lucius Apuleius
The Metamorphosis, also known as The Golden Ass, is one of the very few novels of the Ancient World that survived to our days; one of the tw…
Bel Ami
Read by Martin Geeson
Guy de Maupassant
“He had faith in his good fortune, in that power of attraction which he felt within him - a power so irresistible that all women yielded to …
Varney, the Vampyre
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Thomas Peckett Prest
This is volume 1 of 3. Originally published as a penny dreadful from 1845 until 1847, when it first appeared in book form, Varney the Vampy…
The Blithedale Romance
Read by Jacquerie
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Blithedale Romance is the story of four principal characters who work with -- and sometimes against -- each other on Blithedale, a commu…