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1891 Collection
Read by Bellona Times
Various
A look at the year 1891 through literature and non-fiction essays first published that year, including works by Mary E Wilkins, Sir Arthur C…
The Position of Peggy Harper
Read by Anna Simon
Leonard Merrick
Novel set in the shabby world of British (third-rate) theaters circa 1900. Christopher Tatham tries to survive by going from bit part to bit…
The Old Wives' Tale
Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)
Arnold Bennett
The Old Wives' Tale is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1908. It deals with the lives of two very different sisters, Constance …
The Ringer By Edgar Wallace
The Ringer, a dangerous criminal believed to have died in Australia, turns up again in England, to the consternation of Scotl…
Around the World in Eighty Days (Dramatic Reading)
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Jules Verne
In London, 1872, a rich English gentlemen named Mr. Phileas Fogg argues with the members in the Reform Club, and takes on a journey around t…
Ormond
Read by Bruce Pirie
Maria Edgeworth
Maria Edgeworth was one of the most popular writers of her time, a sharp and witty observer of society manners, and a favorite author for Ja…
Orientations
Read by OCTL7
W. Somerset Maugham
This is a collection showing W. Somerset Maugham's early attempt in the short story genre, which he comes to master as one of 20th century's…
OTRR Casebook Gregory Hood Singles
The Casebook of Gregory Hood Brian Kavanaugh Tired of the role, in 1946 Basil Rathbone decided not to renew his contract playing Sherlock Ho…
Fame and Fortune Weekly No. 7: Winning His Way
Read by Keith Salis
Frank Tousey
The recent death of Frank Morris' father, Owner and Editor of the Green River Argus, has left his 18 year-old son, Frank to take up the chal…
The Financier
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Theodore Dreiser
In Philadelphia, Frank Cowperwood, whose father is a banker, makes his first money by buying cheap soaps on the market and selling it back w…
The Case of Miss Elliott
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Baroness Emma Orczy
A sequel to the stories published in The Old Man in the Corner, this second book in the series includes twelve new mysterious cases that The…
A Journal of the Plague Year
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Daniel Defoe
The novel is a fictionalized account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London. The boo…
The Celebrity
Read by Joseph Tabler
Winston Churchill
Satirizes the rise of a young novelist (thought to be Richard Harding Davis, but denied as such by Churchill). - Summary by Joseph Tabler
The Jabberwocky of Authors
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Harry Persons Taber
LibriVox volunteers offer you 12 different recordings of The Jabberwocky of Authors by Harry Persons Taber. This parody of Carroll's Jabberw…
Ginx's Baby: His Birth and Other Misfortunes
Read by Lisa Reichert
Edward Jenkins
In the second half of the 19th century, London was becoming a wealthy, industrialized city. It attracted many working class people from near…
The Silver Bullet
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Fergus Hume
Dr. Jim Herrick and his friend Robin are on a walking tour in the English countryside when they come across a large house where all the ligh…
The Mystery of 31 New Inn
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R. Austin Freeman
Jeffrey Blackmore suspiciously made two wills, both deceptively alike, but still, in a cunning way, completely different. John Thorndyke, eq…
WWII News and Related Sound files from 1934
Various
Old Time Radio Programs. WWII News and Related Sound files from 1934
The Splendid Outcast
Read by Tony Oliva
George Gibbs
_What else?_—What else had happened? Something to do with the remarkable likeness between himself and Harry? The likeness,—so strong that on…
Tea-table Talk
Read by Ruth Golding
Jerome K. Jerome
As the New York Times said in 1903, this lesser-known work by Jerome K. Jerome does not display "the wit of Congreve or even the glitte…