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Prelude

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Katherine Mansfield


One of the first books to be published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press, Prelude is among Katherine Mansfield's most accompli…

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…

Clematis

Read by Carrie B. Gorman


Bertha B. Cobb and Ernest Cobb


An orphan is found by police and taken to a children's home. In the summer she is sent to the country where a surprise awaits her. - Summary…

Patricia Brent, spinster

Read by Anna Simon


Herbert George Jenkins


A romantic comedy, written in 1918, but with a modern feel to it. Patricia Brent one day overhears two fellow-boarders pitying her because s…

The New Idealism

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May Sinclair


The genius of May Sinclair lies in her brilliant bridging of the Victorian and the modern eras, in her determination never to become ossifie…

Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions

Read by Sandra Cullum


Mary Roberts Rinehart


The story of three "middle aged ladies". Follow along as they have all sorts of adventures. - Summary by Sandra More Tish stories…

Birds of Prey

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon


The first part of the book builds the characters of four con men who become interconnected and attempt their schemes on each other. This boo…

Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)


Edith Œnone Somerville


This is the first of three novels which Edith Somerville and her cousin Violet Martin wrote about the English Major Sinclair Yates who leave…

Dramatic Reading Scene and Story Collection, Volume 003

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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 Wing of Azrael, Volume 1

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Mona Caird


Mona Caird, a British writer and feminist, criticized in numerous non-fiction writings the state of marriage as it existed in her time. Her …

The Art of Fiction

Read by Julie VW


Henry James


A lecture on the art of fiction, given by the English critic Walter Besant on April 25, 1884, and an answer to the lecture by American write…

The Lovels of Arden

Read by Cate Barratt


Mary Elizabeth Braddon


The novel traces the return of a young Englishwoman from several years of schooling abroad, to find that her life will not take up where she…

That Affair Next Door

Read by Dawn Larsen


Anna Katharine Green


The dead body of a woman was found under a large cabinet. But she had been dead four hours before the cabinet fell upon her. The owners of t…

Persuasion

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Jane Austen


Anne Elliott, Jane Austen's only aging heroine, has devoted her life to caring for her financially irresponsible family. Just when she is gr…

Consequences

Read by Caroline Driggs


E. M. Delafield


Set in late Victorian England, “Consequences” follows the life of Alexandra Clare, a girl born into an upper class Catholic London family. R…

The Literary Sense

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E. Nesbit


A collection of short stories written by the author of other literary greats such as The Railway Children, Five Children and It and The Phoe…

Heroines of Fiction

Read by Jim Locke


William Dean Howells


This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…

The Square Emerald

Read by Anne Fletcher


Edgar Wallace


What appears to be a straightforward case of blackmail develops into an exciting, complex web for our heroine, a feisty girl detective attac…

A Letter to Her Husband

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Anne Bradstreet


LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of A Letter to Her Husband (Absent upon Public Employment) by Anne Bradstreet. This was the Fortn…

Wanted: A Husband

Read by Deborah Knight


Samuel Hopkins Adams


This serious, yet witty and hilarious, romantic comedy by Samuel Hopkins Adams is a must read/listen! From the very beginning it intrigues y…

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