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1916: First Chapters Collection
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These are first chapters to books first published in 1916. Readers, following is a tentative list culled from Wikipedia's article on the yea…
1934-08-03 - 138) To New York on the Twentieth Century Limited
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In The Jack Benny Program
The Jack Benny Program, which starred no less than Jack Benny himself, was a comedy series than went on-air for more than 30 years in both r…
Chapter 04
Read by Bob R
Sherwood Anderson
In Poor White: a Novel
This is a story of the effect of industrialization on a small town and its people, around the beginning of the 20th Century. The lead charac…
Part 1 Chapters 1-3
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Ethel M. Dell
In Charles Rex
Excerpt: "Saltash was thoroughly cosmopolitan in his tastes; he liked amusement but he abhorred boredom. He was never really wicked unl…
I.IV Tracks, Part 2
Read by Donald Warren
John Dos Passos
In Manhattan Transfer
Manhattan Transfer is novel that follows several individuals and their overlapping stories in New York City from the Gilded Age to the Jazz …
VI
Read by Wayne Cooke
Cecile Tormay and Cécile Tormay
In The Old House
On a snowy winter's evening, Christopher Ulwing returns to his home, known as The New House for the last thirty years. Settled between the …
Pierre Loti
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Pierre Loti
In An Iceland Fisherman
'An Iceland Fisherman' is an 1886 romance by the celebrated - he was elected to the French Academy in May, 1891 - novelist and naval officer…
Part 1 Chapters 1-2
Read by Celine Major
Ethel M. Dell
In The Hundredth Chance
In this prequel to "Charles Rex'' by Ethel M. Dell you will meet the aristocratic blackguard Lord Saltash for whom our distressed heroi…
Chapter 2 (part 1)
Read by Paul Lawley-Jones
Robert Hugh Benson
In Initiation
A tale of all types of human pain (physical, spiritual, and psychological), this book teaches what it means to be truly human. An interestin…
Preface
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Harold Bell Wright
In When a Man's a Man
When a Man's a Man is a novel written by Harold Bell Wright, an author who was quite popular in the first decades of the 20th Century. This …
Chapter 1
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Ida M. Tarbell
In The Rising of the Tide
The subtitle is "the story of Sabinsport", and the town is the major character. It is a small, Midwestern town in the USA, in 1914…
Part 2, Chapter 1
Read by Simon Evers
Arnold Bennett
In Sacred and Profane Love
Carlotta Peel is an unusual young woman – clever, self-opinionated, a brilliant author and yearning to love and be loved but also to serve h…
CHAPTER I
Read by Larry Wilson
Jerome K. Jerome
In All Roads Lead to Calvary
"All Roads Lead to Calvary is a 1919 novel by the British writer Jerome K. Jerome. It was one of the last works written by Jerome, bett…
Chapter 23. On His Way
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Robert W. Chambers
In The Dark Star
Ruhannah “Rue” Carew, who dreams of becoming an artist, has grown up listening to her father tell the story of how he came by a wooden box a…
THE PAPERS OF ANTHONY KAY-Part 1-Chapter 6
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Maurice Baring
In Overlooked
At a summer resort, a blind man, who has never written a thing, is prodded to pen a novel by his friend who insists that there is one novel …
The Way Back
Read by Brian Fullen
Maurice Nicoll
In The Blue Germ
For your consideration: an English physician and a Russian research scientist jointly develop a bacillus that transforms disease causing ger…
One Way—and Another By Noble May
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Various
In Short Stories From Life
Life Magazine held a short story contest. Stories must be no more than 1500 words. Authors were paid for the number of words under that maxi…
1904
Call Back The Past - SA
In Call Back The Past
South African Radio Show Collection No 29 Call Back The Past. Popular Springbok Radio series "Call Back The Past", hosted by Percy…
Chapter 14, Part 2
Read by T. Coffey
E. F. Benson
In David Blaize
Written during World War I but set before the war, David Blaize is a coming-of-age story set in an all-boys boarding school. We follow David…
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Forward March
In American Armed Forces Radio No 9
American Armed Forces Radio No 9 Forward March The modern American Military is recognized the world over as a professional fighting force ma…