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A Bachelor Girl in Burma
Read by Mary Ann Hadley
Geraldine Edith Mitton
Miss Mitton was an unusual English woman of her time. As a published author, this unmarried woman in her early 30s recorded her visit to Bu…
The Mysterious Rider
Read by Mary Bard
Zane Grey
This book has all the elements of a classic Western, including rustling and gunfights, but at its heart is the battle between good and evil,…
Lost Man's Lane
Read by Mary Bard
Anna Katharine Green
After several people apparently vanish into thin air while walking along the same country road, New York detective Mr Gryce calls on the ski…
The Wonderful Visit
Read by Mary Bard
H. G. Wells
An other-worldly creature visits a small English village, and H. G. Wells uses humour and satire to convey some of the imperfections of Vict…
The Sword of Damocles
Read by Mary Bard
Anna Katharine Green
Anna Katharine Green is best known as one of the first women detective writers, and The Sword of Damocles, first published in 1881, does ind…
Manon Lescaut
Read by Mary Bard
Abbé Prévost
Published in 1731, Manon Lescaut (on which the Puccini opera is based) takes as its themes passionate, tragic love, and redemption through s…
The Missing Formula
Read by Mary Escano
Mildred A. Wirt Benson
Orphan Anne Fairaday faces a life of poverty upon the death of her father. The only thing that can prevent it is finding his latest experime…
The Secret of Casa Grande
Read by Mary Escano
Helen Randolph
While visiting their friend, Florence, at her home in Mexico, Jo Ann and Peggy noticed a barred window which has no opening into any of the …
The Mystery of the Fires
Read by Mary Escano
Edith Lavell
Mary Louise Gay decided to spend the summer holiday in her family's cottage at Shady Nook. But an unknown arsonist has been setting the cot…
The Silent Barrier
Read by Mary Herndon Bell
Louis Tracy
Charles K. Spencer is a well-to-do young American mining engineer. Drinking his water in a hotel in London one day, he overhears a conversat…
The Rose Garden Husband
Read by Mary Herndon Bell
Margaret Widdemer
This novel was written by Margaret Widdemer, who won the Pulitzer prize for her collection of poetry in 1919. Phyllis is a 25-years-old chi…
Indiana
Read by Mary Herndon Bell
George Sand
This is George Sand's first novel. Her real name was Amantine (or Amandine) Lucile Dupin, and she later became baroness Dudevant. As an aris…
The Bone Road
Read by Mary Holland
Mary Holland
A divvy, a dying woman, and a promise Rhona has the divvy gift; with only a touch she can tell if a baby will be fertile or a sterile Shun, …
Matcher Rules
Read by Mary Holland
Mary Holland
Novi colony is inhumanly peaceful and John Jerzy has been sent to find out why. Jerzy's last assignment ended in disaster, his career has st…
The New Life
Read by Mary J
Dante Alighieri
One of Dante's earliest works, La vita nuova or La vita nova (The New Life) is in a prosimetrum style, a combination of prose and verse, and…
La Vita Nuova
Read by Mary J
Dante Alighieri
In quella parte del libro della mia memoria dinanzi alla quale poco si potrebbe leggere, si trova una rubrica la quale dice Incipit Vita Nov…
The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti
Read by Mary J
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Michael Angelo and Campanella represent widely sundered, though almost contemporaneous, moments in the evolution of the Italian genius. Mich…
Under the Shadow of Etna
Read by Mary J
Giovanni Verga
The short stories of Giovanni Verga, one of the leading authors of Italian verismo, or realism, tell mostly of working-class characters in r…
Saint Columbanus The First European
Read by Mary McAleese
RTÉ Radio 1 and Drama on One
In “Columbanus - The First European,” we learn about this remarkable man who played a definitive role in the cultural, educational, and spir…
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
Read by Mary Reagan
Nellie Bly
This is a true account by American woman journalist who, in 1889, set out to see whether she could beat the fictional journey in Jules Verne…