Published 1900 onward
A Change of Air
Read by Amy Dunkleberger
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Anyone can make a will by which his possessions are divided after his death but Cordelia Wheaton was ahead of the game for she willed away h…
Poor White: a Novel
Read by Bob R
Sherwood Anderson
This is a story of the effect of industrialization on a small town and its people, around the beginning of the 20th Century. The lead charac…
Green Valley
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Katharine Yirsa Reynolds
"Traveling men have a poor opinion of it. Ministers of the gospel have been known to despair of it. Socially ambitious matrons move out…
Amor y pedagogía
Read by Epachuko
Miguel de Unamuno and Miguel De Unamuno
Don Avito, hombre de firmes convicciones ilustradas, se propone tener un hijo y criarlo basandose en las doctrinas cientificas para que lleg…
The Rising of the Tide
Read by Bob R
Ida M. Tarbell
The subtitle is "the story of Sabinsport", and the town is the major character. It is a small, Midwestern town in the USA, in 1914…
The Outcry
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Henry James
The story concerns the contemplated sale of a famous painting by a proud but relatively cash-strapped British aristocrat to a wealthy Americ…
The Race Of The Swift
Read by David Wales
Edwin Carlile Litsey
This 1905 collection is of the author’s short animal stories, some previously published in magazines. - Summary by David Wales
The Storm Of London
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Fernande Blaze De Bury
Our clothes tell our story. They reflect our rank, have to suit a perfect event, and much more. But what happens when they disappear? Sounds…
Чортова кукла
Read by Hanna Ponomarenko
Зинаида Гиппиус
This book is not exactly a novel, as presented, but rather a sampler of characters of St. Petersburg of the early 20th century. However, as …
Windy McPherson's Son
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Sherwood Anderson
Windy McPherson's Son is the story of Sam McPherson's rise in the world of business and search for emotional enlightenment in later life. Mc…
A Cathedral Singer
Read by David Wales
James Lane Allen
New York City in the early 20th century, a boy with an angelic voice, his devoted mother, the great Episcopal Cathedral of Saint John The Di…
Избранные Разсказы / Selected Stories
Read by Mark Chulsky
Evgeny Chirikov
A novella and three short stories by Evgeny Chirikov, a Russian writer popular before the 1917 revolution. He favored democratic reforms in …
Bucking the Tiger
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Achmed Abdullah
A group of down-and-outers decide on the ultimate gamble: they will bankroll one of themselves, chosen by lot, to live well for a year. Then…
Saint's Progress
Read by Simon Evers
John Galsworthy
Edward Pierson is the widowed vicar of a London church. He has two daughters, Eve and Noel, who is 17. In essence, the novel follows the bat…
If You Touch Them They Vanish
Read by Tom Penn
Gouverneur Morris
"No man who has not endured solitude in long doses knows how vivid, real, and necessary people and things of the imagination may become…
The Enchanted April (Version 3)
Read by TR Love
Elizabeth Von Arnim
Escaping their lives for a month in a castle on the Riviera, four women spend considerable effort suspiciously guarding their solitude, beli…
Shifting Sands
Read by Roger Melin
Sara Ware Bassett
After days of fog Stanley Heath, a stranger whose power-boat runs aground on the treacherous Cape Cod shoals, stumbles into the Homestead an…
The Street Called Straight
Read by Simon Evers
Basil King
Henry Guion, a rich and successful American businessman, faces complete ruin and jail as he has embezzled all his client’s money. He tells h…
Sasha
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Aleksandr Kuprin
Kuprin is well-known to Russian readers and has been described as one of the last exponents of Russian critical realism. He first made a car…
Emily Climbs, Version 3
Read by Rachel
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Teenage orphan Emily Starr of New Moon has always wanted to be a great writer. But her old-fashioned aunt, who has never liked Emily’s writi…