Published 1900 onward
Rain (Version 2)
Read by Linda Hogan
W. Somerset Maugham
Rain charts the moral disintegration of a missionary attempting to convert a Pacific island prostitute named Sadie Thompson. (Introduction b…
Tales of the Uneasy
Read by Lisa Reichert
Violet Hunt
Nine twisty-turny tales of tragic human drama, played out in Victorian parlors, death beds and lonely country roads. This collection of Viol…
The Trial of Callista Blake
Read by Roger Melin
Edgar Pangborn
In 1959, in the state of New Essex, a witch was on trial. Or so she seemed to many of the jurors who would ultimately decide her fate, and t…
Three Lives
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Gertrude Stein
Three Lives tells the stories of three women from the same fictitious town of Bridgeport. The first story is of Anna, a servant to the wealt…
Betty Baird
Read by Holly Jenson
Anna Hamlin Weikel
This is the first book in the Betty Baird Series of boarding school books, a genre which was popular among young girls in the early 1900s. O…
Jim The Story Of A Backwoods Police Dog (And Other Stories)
Read by David Wales
Sir Charles G. D. Roberts
Deputy Sheriff Tug Blackstock wanted a dog to help with his work. As for Jim, at first glance he might almost have been taken for a slim, y…
Echoes of the War
Read by James E. Carson
J. M. Barrie
Short stories with dramatic parts about civilian life in London during the First World War. Some humorous moments. By the author of "Pe…
Peggy Raymond's School Days (or Old Girls And New)
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Harriet Lummis Smith
Published in 1916, this third installment with The Friendly Terrace girls places them in The Girl’s High School, with an array of new charac…
A Cathedral Courtship
Read by Ric F
Kate Douglas Wiggin
An romantic comedy. A pretty young American girls tours English Cathedrals, with her very blue-blooded Aunt. Then boy meets girl. Boy chases…
Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness!
Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
Selma Lagerlöf
“Thy Soul shall bear Witness” (Körkarlen) by the Swedish Nobel Laureate Selma Lagerlöf is a kind of spooky Novel. It was first pub…
Sleeping Fires
Read by Sharon Kilmer
Gertrude Atherton
The story of a love so strong that neither the rigid rules of Society in California in the 1800s nor the very bowels of hell could keep a yo…
The Mine with the Iron Door
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Harold Bell Wright
Of all the stirring tales of this picturesque region of the Santa Catalinas, of all the romantic legends and traditions that have come down …
The Friendly Terrace Quartette (or Peggy Raymond At The Poplars)
Read by Daryl Wor
Harriet Lummis Smith
The Friendly Terrace Quartette (or Peggy Raymond At The Poplars) published in 1920, finds Peggy and her friends preparing for The Great War.…
The Home-Maker
Read by Maria Kasper
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The Knapp family seems as though they ought to be happy, yet hidden frustrations are tearing them apart under the surface. As the family bre…
The Lucky Piece: A Story of the North Woods
Read by Roger Melin
Albert Bigelow Paine
While riding a stage back to the city late in the summer, a youngster had no money to spend, and so gives his lucky piece as payment to a yo…
My Brilliant Career
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Miles Franklin
Sybella: "There is no plot in this story, because there has been none in my life or in any other life which has come under my notice. I…
Die grüne Nachtigall und andere Novellen
Read by Friedrich
Mikhail Kuzmin
Die Sammlung dieser Novellen soll den Dichter Kusmin - der eigentlich Komponist war - dem Zuhörer bekannt machen.Kusmins Helden sind (f…
Christmas Eve At Swamp's End
Read by David Wales
Norman Duncan
Four selected chapters from The Measure Of A Man; A Tale of the Big Woods, by Norman Duncan. What could be more Christmasy than: Babies, esp…
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes": the illuminating diary of a professional lady
Read by Jenn Broda
Anita Loos
In this comic novel written by American author Anita Loos, we follow the adventures of the fictional character Lorelei Lee who is a young bl…
The Mirror Of Kong Ho
Read by David Wales
Ernest Bramah
This 1905 tongue-in-cheek book is ostensibly the letters of a dutiful son to his Chinese father describing his encounter with and experience…