General Fiction
Ethan Frome (version 2)
Read by Bob Neufeld
Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome is a novel published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of St…
The Valley of the Giants
Read by Roger Melin
Peter B. Kyne
The man was John Cardigan; in that lonely, hostile land he was the first pioneer. This is the tale of Cardigan and Cardigan's son, for in hi…
Isobel
Read by Roger Melin
James Oliver Curwood
Action, intrigue, and a touch of romance in the farthest reaches of northern Canada. Sergeant Billy MacVeigh of the Canadian Northwest Mount…
Our Mutual Friend
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Charles Dickens
Dickens' last complete novel was published serially 1864-5. It begins with an intriguing fortune offered to John Harmon by his late father, …
The Teeth of the Tiger
Read by Cate Barratt
Maurice Leblanc
Maurice Leblanc delivers another Arsene Lupin adventure set in World War I. (Summary by Cathy Barratt)
Midnight
Read by Roger Melin
Octavus Roy Cohen
The crime seemed to have lost itself in the sleety cold of the December midnight upon which it was committed. The trails were not blind--the…
Jude the Obscure
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Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure is the last of Thomas Hardy's novels, begun as a magazine serial and first published in book form in 1895. Its hero Jude Fa…
Bel Ami, or The History of a Scoundrel
Read by Martin Geeson
Guy de Maupassant
“He had faith in his good fortune, in that power of attraction which he felt within him - a power so irresistible that all women yielded to …
Varney, the Vampyre Vol. 1
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Thomas Peckett Prest
This is volume 1 of 3. Originally published as a penny dreadful from 1845 until 1847, when it first appeared in book form, Varney the Vampy…
The Blithedale Romance
Read by Jacquerie
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Blithedale Romance is the story of four principal characters who work with -- and sometimes against -- each other on Blithedale, a commu…
Washington Square
Read by Dawn
Henry James
Washington Square is a short novel by Henry James. Originally published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Ma…
Wessex Tales
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Thomas Hardy
Wessex Tales is a collection of six short stories written by Hardy in the 1880’s. If you’ve never read Hardy they’ll serve as a good introdu…
Four Girls at Chautauqua
Read by TriciaG
Pansy
Authored by Isabella M. Alden under the pen name “Pansy.” First in the Chautauqua Girls series.Four friends - spoiled, quirky Ruth; fun-lovi…
The Coming of Bill (or: Their Mutual Child; or: The White Hope)
Read by Don W. Jenkins
P. G. Wodehouse
The Coming of Bill tells the story of Kirk Winfield, his marriage to Ruth, and their child called Bill. Bill's upbringing is threatened by t…
Murder at St. Dennis
Read by Maria Therese
Margaret Ann Hubbard
A cunning killer prowls the winding corridors of an old hospital in this thriller by the author of "Murder Takes the Veil". (From …
Rangy Pete
Read by Grant Hurlock
Guy Morton
Canadian novelist Guy Morton's Rangy Pete is one of a trio of westerns he wrote in the 1920s (the other two being Black Gold and Wards of th…
The Man Who Laughs
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Victor Hugo
The Man Who Laughs is a novel by Victor Hugo, originally published in April 1869 under the French title L'Homme qui rit. Also published unde…
On the Irrawaddy, A Story of the First Burmese War
Read by Mike Harris
G. A. Henty
With the exception of the terrible retreat from Afghanistan, none of England's many little wars have been so fatal--in proportion to the num…
The Dawn of a To-morrow
Read by Linda Andrus
Frances Hodgson Burnett
A wealthy London business man takes a room in a poor part of the city.He is depressed and has decided to take his life by going the next day…
The Staircase at the Heart's Delight
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Anna Katharine Green
Detective Ebenezer Gryce tells the story of the case with which he begun his career in 1840. Several wealthy men were drowned and washed ash…