Published 1900 onward
The Tale of Triona
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
Olivia is a newly orphaned young woman looking for adventure and excitement. She rents out her house to Blaise Olifant whose friend Alexis T…
The Getting of Wisdom (Version 2)
Read by Kirsty Leishman
Henry Handel Richardson
Henry Handel Richardson was the pseudonym of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, a writer who was born in 1870 to a reasonably well-off fami…
The Castlecourt Diamond Mystery
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Geraldine Bonner
The famous Castlecourt Diamonds have gone missing and the story surrounding their disappearance is strange indeed. To help sort out th…
The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories
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Charles Weathers Bump
A collection of offbeat stories. Some are a bit out of the ordinary as suggested by the title story about a freshwater mermaid; some are not…
Fidelity
Read by Arielle Lipshaw
Susan Glaspell
The small Midwestern town of Freeport was scandalized years ago when Ruth Holland, then a young girl, ran away to the West with a married ma…
Liliecrona's Home
Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
Selma Lagerlöf
Liliecrona's Home was published in Sweden 1911, translated into English by Anna Harwell and published in London in 1913. The story is set in…
Prodigal Daughters
Read by Kate Follis
Joseph Hocking
A frank look at the revolt of the younger generation following World War I, the book follows the Trelawney family. The father looks eagerly …
The Third Circle
Read by David Wales
Frank Norris
Sixteen short stories by the American novelist Benjamin Frank Norris Jr (1870-1902) who wrote predominantly in the naturalist genre. He liv…
Maria Chapdelaine (version 2)
Read by Bruce Pirie
Louis Hémon
The novel Maria Chapdelaine portrays life in rural Quebec at the beginning of the 20th century. Published first in French in 1913, it is a f…
Thurley Ruxton
Read by Paul Hansen
Philip Verrill Mighels
This is a rags to riches romance about an exceedingly beautiful, poor, young girl (Thurley Ruxton) who is mentored by one of New York’s elit…
The Dinner Club
Read by Kirsten Wever
Sapper
Herman Cyril McNeile, better known as Sapper, was one of England’s most popular fiction writers during the period between World Wars I and I…
The Regeneration of Lord Ernie
Read by Patrick79
Algernon Blackwood
"The Regeneration of Lord Ernie is a story about a young man with no passion for life, he was very capable and the heir to a large fami…
Inspector French and the Cheyne Mystery
Read by Atul Sharma
Freeman Wills Crofts
A railway engineer by training, Freeman Wills Crofts often relied on railway themes for his plots, with careful attention to details and sch…
1916: First Chapters Collection
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Various
These are first chapters to books first published in 1916. Readers, following is a tentative list culled from Wikipedia's article on the yea…
The End Of The Tether
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
At an age when he should, by rights, be embarking on a well-deserved and comfortable retirement, Captain Whalley, a sailor of the old school…
Souls for Sale
Read by Deanna Bovee
Rupert Hughes
Perhaps the most commercially successful Hollywood novel of the 1920s, Rupert Hughes' Souls for Sale is a direct response to contemporaneous…
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…
Sisters
Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)
Ada Cambridge
Ada Cambridge (November 21, 1844 - July 19, 1926), later known as Ada Cross, was an English born Australian writer. While she gained recogni…
Just As I Am
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The murder has finally been solved. After 20 years, Humphrey Vargas came with his dog, seemingly from no where, and informed the magistrate …
The Old Ladies
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
“Quite a number of years ago there was an old rickety building on the rock above Seatown in Polchester, and it was one of a number in an old…