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Vanity Fair (version 2)
Read by Helen Taylor
William Makepeace Thackeray
One of the great Victorian novels by an author at the height of his powers, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of the calculating, upwardly-mo…
Emma: A Fragment of a Story
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Charlotte Brontë
Miss Mabel Wilcox, the owner of a newly opened girl's boarding school, meets the wealthy Mr. Conway Fitzgibbon, who drops off his frail daug…
Summer (version 2)
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Edith Wharton
Wharton's 1917 novella Summer, like her more famous work Ethan Frome, is set in a very small rural New England town. Charity Royall longs t…
A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy
Read by Sibella Denton
Ida Laura Pfeiffer
Ida Pfeiffer travelled alone in an era when women didn't travel. She went first on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, then went on to Egypt and …
Ester Ried
Read by TriciaG
Pansy
Authored by Isabella M. Alden under the pen name "Pansy."Ester Ried's life is a dull monotony of toiling at her family's boardingh…
Marco and the Red Granny
Read by Mur Lafferty
Mur Lafferty
By bringing back the patronage system, a new alien species has transformed the moon into the new artistic center of the universe, and Sally …
Dramatic Reading Scene and Story Collection, Volume 001
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Various
LibriVox readers present a collection of their favorite chapters and short stories, with the original author’s words all brought to life wit…
The Wall Street Girl
Read by ashleighjane
Frederick O. Bartlett
After the loss of his father, Don finds that life isn't quite as easy when having to make his own way in the world. Stripped of his riches, …
Cherry Ames, Island Nurse
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Helen Wells
A private duty nursing case takes Cherry Ames to a remote Canadian island, where a mystery surrounds a mining operation.The Cherry Ames seri…
Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School
Read by Christine Blachford
Jessie Graham Flower and Josephine Chase
This delightful book tells about a group of smart young people who get up to some wonderful adventures together - and save one another from …
Passing
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Nella Larsen
Nella Larsen, a novelist of the Harlem Renaissance, wrote two brilliant novels that interrogated issues of gender and race. In Passing, her…
Rainy Week (Version 2)
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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
A couple invite people of different walks of life to their cottage along the beach, during the rainiest week of the year. The gathered peopl…
The Portrait of a Lady (version 3)
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
Our central character is Isabel Archer of Albany, New York, a young woman of no great means, and no great beauty (that is, by her own estima…
Red Pottage
Read by Simon Evers
Mary Cholmondeley
The book follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with th…
Desperate Remedies
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Thomas Hardy
Cytherea Graye is poor, but accepts a post as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, the woman whom her father had loved but had not b…
Transition
Read by Jim Locke
Emma Francis Brooke
Honora Klaper is beautiful, distinguished, smart, and charming. A woman who turns heads. She is on an errand. No, it is not an errand to get…
The Woman in the Alcove
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Anna Katharine Green
"I was, perhaps, the plainest girl in the room that night. I was also the happiest—up to one o'clock. Then my whole world crumbled, or,…
Links in Rebecca's Life
Read by BookAngel7
Pansy
Rebecca Harlowe is a young woman who strives to apply Christ's instructions in the Bible to her daily life and relationships. In this book w…
Capitol Coven
Read by Peter E. Abresch
Peter E. Abresch
Ninety percent of the federal laws, resolutions, and appropriations pass or fail in the U. S. Congress by a handful of votes. When Alexand…