Published 1900 onward
The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel
Read by David Wales
A. E. W. Mason
Inspector Hanaud is a member of the French Sûreté. He is said to have been the model for Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, as w…
Blazed Trail Stories and Stories Of The Wild Life
Read by David Wales
Stewart Edward White
Thirteen short stories by a popular writer of the early 20th century (not to be confused with an earlier book Blazed Trail). White's books …
A Girl of the Limberlost (version 2)
Read by Patience Charles
Gene Stratton-Porter
Set in the Limberlost swamp of Indiana, A Girl of the Limberlost follows Elnora Comstock through struggles and triumphs as she seeks educati…
Adrift in New York
Read by Bridget Gaige
Horatio Alger, Jr.
John Linden is a very wealthy man. The people who should inherit his property are his nephew, Curtis Waring, his niece Florence Linden, and …
Five Tales
Read by David Wales
John Galsworthy
This 1918 book consists of five short stories or novelettes by Galsworthy. They are The First and Last (1914), A Stoic, The Apple Tree (1916…
Parnassus on Wheels
Read by Dawn Larsen
Christopher Morley
Parnassus on Wheels is about a fictional traveling book-selling business. The original owner of the business, Roger Mifflin, sells it to 39-…
The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
Marcus Ordeyne is a middle aged bachelor schoolmaster who has inherited both money and a title and thus is able to lead a life of leisure. O…
The Spider
Read by Don W. Jenkins
Fergus Hume
Arthur Vernon, member of the Athenian club and member of “society,” has a secret. His father has died and left him destitute, so he has begu…
Royal Highness
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Thomas Mann
Royal Highness is the story of Prince Klaus Heinrich, a member of a struggling German duchy and an exotic American heiress who comes to live…
The de Bercy Affair
Read by Lee Smalley
Louis Tracy
A beautiful French actress with concealed origins and a clandestine involvement with a group of anarchists is brutally murdered in London. C…
Her Mother's Secret
Read by Bridget Gaige
E.D.E.N. Southworth
What kind of secret could a mother be keeping that would keep long time lovers apart, and force her eldest daughter into a hasty marriage? Y…
Bill the Conqueror
Read by Carol Pelster
P. G. Wodehouse
Hailed as one of the funniest writers of the 20th century, P. G. Wodehouse cheerfully radiates humor that is both sophisticated and popular.…
Mrs. Dalloway
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Virginia Woolf
"Mrs. Dalloway" recounts a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in the middle of June 1923. Clarissa Dalloway is a high society Lo…
The Trespasser
Read by Martin Geeson
D. H. Lawrence
Brief Encounter meets Tristan und Isolde - on the Isle of Wight, under a vast sky florid with stars. The consequence is tragic indeed for on…
Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes
Read by Andy Harrington
Maurice Leblanc
The story of an exciting test of wits between world-class thief Arsène Lupin and master detective Herlock Sholmes. Translated from th…
Somehow Good
Read by Helen Taylor
William Frend De Morgan
A mysterious man arrives in London and, in a freak accident, gets electrocuted on an underground train and loses his memory. A young lady ca…
Tales of the Fish Patrol
Read by Don W. Jenkins
Jack London
Wildest among the fisher-folk may be accounted the Chinese shrimp-catchers. It is the habit of the shrimp to crawl along the bottom in vast …
The Secret Places of the Heart
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H. G. Wells
Richard Hardy, a member of the British gentry, tries to resolve problems in his marriage as he travels with a psychiatrist. The book is to a…
A Passage to India
Read by Kirsten Wever
E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India (1924) is widely acclaimed as one of the hundred best literary works of 20th century. Time magazine rates…
All Else Is Folly
Read by KevinS
Peregrine Acland
This novel, published in 1929, more than a decade after the close of the First World War, is an insightful and disturbing view of a Canadian…