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Read by Greg W.


Stephen Crane


At the time of his death at the age of 28, Stephen Crane had become an important figure in American literature. He was nearly forgotten, how…

The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz

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Anonymoustranslated Bye. Foxcroft


The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz was edited in 1616 in Strasbourg (annexed by France in 1681). It is the third of the original …

The Magnificent Ambersons (Growth Trilogy Vol 2)

Read by Mark F. Smith


Booth Tarkington


In a world where a gentleman’s life is defined more “by being, rather than by doing,” a family’s reputation can be compromised if it is not …

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

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Stephen Crane


Stephen Crane's first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets has been called "the first dark flower of American Naturalism" for its …

The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)


Arnold Bennett


Twenty-two short stories by Arnold Bennett, mainly set in the 'Five Towns', Bennett's name for the pottery manufacturing towns of the Englis…

Framley Parsonage

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Anthony Trollope


Framley Parsonage is the fourth novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire", first published in se…

Their Yesterdays

Read by Megan Kunkel


Harold Bell Wright


The story of a man and a woman, as they experience The Thirteen Truly Great Things of Life: Dreams, Occupation, Knowledge, Ignorance, Religi…

The Beloved Vagabond

Read by Simon Evers


William John Locke


The vagabond, Paragot, a truly eccentric bohemian and a wandering scholar with a mysterious past, adopts a London street urchin (whom he cal…

Ein Verbrechen

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Maxim Gorky


Nach dem Tode seines Vaters verlässt der einfältige und mittellose Wanja Kusmin sein heimatliches Dorf, um in der Stadt Arbeit zu …

The House of the Seven Gables (Version 2)

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Nathaniel Hawthorne


The House of the Seven Gables is a gloomy New England mansion, haunted from its foundation by fraudulent dealings, accusations of witchcraft…

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…

The Good Soldier

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Ford Madox Ford


The Good Soldier (1915) "... is set just before World War I and chronicles the tragedies of the lives of two seemingly perfect couples.…

Short Science Fiction Collection 052

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Various


Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…

The Daughter of the Commandant

Read by Kevin W. Davidson


Alexander Pushkin


"The Daughter of the Commandant" (better known as "The Captain's Daughter") is a historical novel by the Russian writer …

The Tribulations of a Chinaman in China

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Jules Verne


The rich and phlegmatic Kin-Fo loses his fortune and decides to die, but not before experiencing some strong emotions. He asks his friend Wa…

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Read by Tony Oliva


Vicente Blasco Ibáñez


The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, by Vicente Blasco Ibañez and translated into English by Charlotte Brewster Jordan, depicts two b…

Zanoni

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton


Zanoni, a timeless Rosicrucian brother, cannot fall in love without losing his power of immortality; but he does fall in love with Viola Pis…

The Well-Beloved

Read by Simon Evers


Thomas Hardy


'The Well-Beloved' tells the story of Jocelyn Pierston and his love for three generations of women - the grandmother, her daughter and grand…

Black Heart and White Heart

Read by Vira Denton


H. Rider Haggard


Black Heart and White Heart, is a story of the courtship, trials and final union of a pair of Zulu lovers in the time of King Cetywayo. (Int…

Main Street

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Sinclair Lewis


Carol Milford is a liberal, free-spirited young woman, reared in the metropolis of Minneapolis. She marries Will Kennicott, a doctor, who is…

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