Fiction
The Jacket
Read by Barry Eads
Jack London
A framing story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin State Priso…
Prester John
Read by Grant Hurlock
John Buchan
This classic adventure novel by the author of Greenmantle and The Thirty-Nine Steps relates the first-person exploits of young David Crawfur…
The Wind in the Willows (Version 4)
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Kenneth Grahame
Kenneth Grahame wrote a classic children’s tale in 1908 - he penned The Wind in the Willows. He wrote of the English countryside and the bea…
The Golden Bowl
Read by Lee Ann Howlett
Henry James
The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some cri…
Ein verbummelter Student
Read by Rainer
Gustav Sack
"Ein verbummelter Student" ist ein autobiographisch geprägtes Werk von Gustav Sack (1885-1916), einem heute fast vergessenen,…
Off on a Comet
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Jules Verne
The story starts with a comet that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. Some forty people of various natio…
Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung
Read by Mark F. Smith
Victor Appleton
The US Government is very smartly letting Tom Swift Jr. handle the recovery of its probe to Jupiter. But a mystery missile suddenly intercep…
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (abridged, version 2)
Read by ashleighjane
Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dod…
Out of Time's Abyss (version 2)
Read by Lucy Lo Faro
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Out of Time’s Abyss is an Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel, the third of his Caspak trilogy. The sequence was first published in B…
My Lady Ludlow
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
This novella by the acclaimed Elizabeth Gaskell follows the reminiscences and life of aristocratic Lady Ludlow, told through the eyes of one…
Round the Sofa
Read by NoelBadrian
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Round the Sofa (1859), is a book of stories by the lady that Charles Dickens called his “dear Scheherazade” due to her skill as a story tell…
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Read by Tadhg
Robert Tressell
Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell's cast of hypocritical Christians, ex…
O Ateneu
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Raul Pompéia
O Ateneu é um romance do escritor brasileiro Raul Pompeia, considerado como o único exemplar de romance impressionista na lite…
Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte
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Adelbert von Chamisso
Peter Schlemihl lernt den reichen Kaufmann Thomas John kennen, in dessen Garten er einem eigenartigen grauen Herrn begegnet. Dieser übe…
Jimbo
Read by Adrian Praetzellis
Algernon Blackwood
Fantasy novel about the mystical adventures of a lonely English boy, Jimbo. It’s really quite beautiful and can be enjoyed by both older kid…
The Basket of Flowers
Read by Abigail Rasmussen
Christoph Von Schmid
James is the king's gardener and he deeply enjoys caring for and cultivating flowers. He teaches his daughter Mary many principles of godlin…
Mag and Margaret: A Story for Girls
Read by TriciaG
Pansy
Little Mag Jessup is an orphan girl who works hard as a servant in Mrs. Perkins' boarding house to earn her keep. She has no education, exce…