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Kathleen
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Christopher Morley
A group called the Scorpions, eight Oxford undergraduates, find a letter Kathleen wrote a letter to Joe at Oxford. They build up an image of…
The Peterkin Papers
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Lucretia P. Hale
The Peterkins were a lovable but comically inept family that possess ingenuity, logic, resourcefulness, and energy--but not common sense. Th…
Violet: A Fairy Story
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Caroline Snowden Guild
A charming fairytale -- with realistic touches -- from the mid-19th Century.(Summary by BellonaTimes)
Lady Susan
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Jane Austen
Jane Austen demonstrated her mastery of the epistolary novel genre in Lady Susan, which she wrote in 1795 but never published. Although the …
Aurora Floyd
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Aurora Floyd, the daughter of a rich banker and an actress, could not have had a better start: back from a finishing school in Paris, she is…
A Red Wallflower
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Susan Warner
A motherless girl finds life very lonely living with only her dour father and two servants in the quiet New England countryside. Lonely, tha…
Jane Eyre (version 3 dramatic reading)
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Charlotte Brontë
Primarily of the bildungsroman genre, Jane Eyre follows the emotions and experiences of eponymous Jane Eyre, her growth to adulthood, and he…
Birds of Prey
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The first part of the book builds the characters of four con men who become interconnected and attempt their schemes on each other. This boo…
English Literature
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Geraldine Hodgson
This book is not meant to be a History of English Literature, but an introduction for those who do not know much about it, or who may be thi…
Wanted
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Pansy
Twenty-seven year old Rebecca Meredith feels out of place and unwanted. She has lost her mother, brother, and idolized little sister to the …
Northanger Abbey (version 4)
Read by Tony Addison
Jane Austen
If it is a truth universally acknowledged that a good-looking girl cannot fail of attracting a clever young man does it follow that the reve…
The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight
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Elizabeth Von Arnim
The Princess Priscilla of Lothen Kunitz finds court life stifling and runs away to England with the elderly court librarian. Her intention i…
Poor Miss Finch
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Wilkie Collins
“Poor Miss Finch.” That is what everyone calls the courageous protagonist of this book. In other words, “poor thing, she’s blind, isn’t it a…
Orlando, A Biography (version 2)
Read by Nicole J. LeBoeuf
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking satire of British culture, customs, literature, philosophy, and politics from the Elizabethan era to the aut…
Kreativity for Kats & Other Stories
Read by Phil Chenevert
Fritz Leiber
Here are three stories by the inimitable Fritz Leiber, all from Galaxy Magazine: Kreativity for Kats 1961 - aliens do live among us; The La…
Mothering on Perilous
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Lucy S. Furman
Cecelia Loring is alone in the world after the death of her mother and has come to the Kentucky mountains in search of work. Although very d…
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (abridged, version 3)
Read by Phil Chenevert
Lewis Carroll
A delightful version of Alice's Adventures following that scurrying Rabbit with the watch that is shortened for the enjoyment of younger chi…
Dramatic Reading Scene and Story Collection, Volume 002
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Various
Librivox readers present a collection of their favorite chapters and short stories, with the original author’s words all brought to life wit…
The Mayor's Wife
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Anna Katharine Green
Miss Saunders is out for an adventure. One, which is full of secrets, hints, and half-lies. One, which will require all of her wits. She is …
The Peterkin Papers (version 2)
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Lucretia P. Hale
The Peterkin Papers is a book-length collection of humorous stories by Lucretia Peabody Hale, and is her best-known work. The Peterkins are …