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Rhymes for the Nursery
Read by Jordan Watts
Ann Taylor
This early 19th-century children's poetry collection by Jane and Ann Taylor is little-known today, but contains the original version of Twin…
The Crime of the French Cafe and Other Stories
Read by Nancy Gorgen
Nicholas Carter
Nick Carter is a fictional detective who first appeared in 1886 in dime store novels. Over the years, different authors, all taking the nom …
Companionable Books
Read by MaryAnn
Henry van Dyke
Many books are dry and dusty, there is no juice in them; and many are soon exhausted, you would no more go back to them than to a squeezed o…
La Lecture, tome 2
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
La Lecture était une revue littéraire bi-mensuelle française de la fin du 19e siècle, publiant surtout des nouve…
Lord Montagu's Page
Read by Lynne T
George Payne Rainsford James
A young man is crossing the English Channel bound for France. It is obviously not his first such trip, but who is he and what is his errand?…
Leonora
Read by Simon Evers
Arnold Bennett
Leonora Stanway is 40 and lives a comfortable middle-class life with her unsympathetic and dull husband, John. Her three daughters are rapid…
Joseph Andrews
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Henry Fielding
"Joseph Andrews ... was the first published full-length novel of the English author and magistrate Henry Fielding, and indeed among the…
An Amiable Charlatan
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E. Phillips Oppenheim
An Englishman is enjoying his dinner at Stephano's, at which he is a regular diner. A man enters quickly, sits at his table, starts eating h…
The House on the Borderland
Read by Alan Winterrowd
William Hope Hodgson
In 1877, two gentlemen, Messrs Tonnison and Berreggnog, head into Ireland to spend a week fishing in the village of Kraighten. While there, …
Aus 115 - Michael Strogoff - Courier of The Czar
A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 115 Michael Strogoff: A children's radio serial adapted for radio from a novel by Jules Verne. Sub-ser…
The Gifts of the Child Christ
Read by Ann Boulais
George MacDonald
It's the Advent season in London but all is not well in the Greatorex household. All this will change with a surprise on Christmas morning.…
The Romany Rye
Read by Peter Dann
George Borrow
"The Romany Rye" is a direct continuation of George Borrow's "Lavengro", taking up the latter's story immediately where …
Tom Ossington's Ghost
Read by Patti Cunningham
Richard Marsh
Madge and Ella have lived at Clover Cottage for six weeks when a series of strange events begin to occur. A gentleman who arrives asking for…
The Chaperon
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
What on earth is a girl to do when London society has convicted her mother of a dreadful sin and has ostracized her? If blood is thicker tha…
A Fool There Was
Read by Roger Melin
Porter Emerson Browne
Two friends were asked by their respective fathers on their death beds to promise to marry a special girl, who lived across the street and w…
Lover or Friend
Read by Edmund Bloxam
Rosa Nouchette Carey
An epic tale of romantic and societal confrontation, as two families become far more intimately entangled than they could have previously im…
Peter und Alexej
Dmitri Sergejewitsch Mereschkowski
Historischer Roman über den russischen Zaren Peter I. Mit großer Authentizität schildert der Autor den Reformprozess der unt…
Love and Mr Lewisham
Read by Anthony Ogus
H. G. Wells
The teaching profession, science and politics in late 19th century England. H. G. Wells’ humorous early novel, drawing on his own life, show…