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The Rose Garden Husband

Read by Mary Herndon Bell


Margaret Widdemer


This novel was written by Margaret Widdemer, who won the Pulitzer prize for her collection of poetry in 1919. Phyllis is a 25-years-old chi…

Mudfog and Other Sketches

Read by Bob Neufeld


Charles Dickens


The Mudfog Papers was written by Victorian era novelist Charles Dickens and published from 1837–38 in the monthly literary serial Bentley's …

The Life of George Washington in Words of One Syllable

Read by ACBowgus


Josephine Pollard


The Life story of a public man cannot help being to some extent the same thing as a history of the times in which he lived, and to the case …

Vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón

Read by Tux


Vicente Espinel


Las «Relaciones de la vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón» (1618) son una novela picaresca, provista de muchos elementos …

Bill the Conqueror

Read by Carol Pelster


P. G. Wodehouse


Hailed as one of the funniest writers of the 20th century, P. G. Wodehouse cheerfully radiates humor that is both sophisticated and popular.…

Iphigenie auf Tauris - Ein Schauspiel

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Iphigenie auf Tauris ist insofern ein klassisches Drama, als es sowohl einen antiken Stoff behandelt als auch das Menschenideal der Klassik …

Our Nig, or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, In A Two-Story White House

Read by Bridget Gaige


Harriet E. Wilson


Frado is a colored girl, living in the USA a few years before the Civil War. She is abandoned by her own white mother in the house of the Be…

The Adventures of Ulysses

Read by Rebecca Dittman


Charles Lamb


Lamb used Homer's Odyssey as the basis for the re-telling of the story of Ulysses's journey back from Troy to his own kingdom of Ithaca. Not…

The Hidden Places

Read by Roger Melin


Bertrand W. Sinclair


Hollister, returning home from the war physically scarred but otherwise healthy and intact, finds life difficult among society, and so choos…

Murder in the Sacristy

Read by Maria Therese


Daniel A. Lord


A sacristan is found murdered in the sacristy and the safe robbed of valuable jewels. All clues seem to point to the priest as the murderer.…

Rappaccini's Daughter

Read by Brett W. Downey


Nathaniel Hawthorne


The story is set in Padua in a distant, but unspecified past. From his quarters, Giovanni, a young student of letters, observes Beatrice, th…

The Golden Web

Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)


E. Phillips Oppenheim


Stirling Deane has sold the Little Anna Gold Mine which he discovered in South Africa. The sale has made him a rich man and the head of the …

Tono-Bungay

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H. G. Wells


Tono-Bungay is a realist semi-autobiographical novel. It is narrated by George Ponderevo, a science student who is drafted in to help with t…

Ocherki proshlago : razskazy

Read by Maya S


Lev Osipovich Levanda


A collection of six short stories about life of a Jewish community in Poland. (Summary by MayaS)

The Red and the Black, Volume II

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Stendhal


Stendhal - a German pen-name for a French writer who hated the English. Contemporary to some of the great names of French literature like Ba…

The Child's Book of American Biography

Read by Laura Victoria


Mary Stoyell Stimpson


In every country there have been certain men and women whose busy lives have made the world better or wiser. The names of such are heard so …

Vera

Read by Greg W.


Elizabeth Von Arnim


Vera (1921) by Elizabeth von Arnim is a black comedy based on her disastrous second marriage to Earl Russell: a mordant analysis of the roma…

Hilda Lessways

Read by Simon Evers


Arnold Bennett


This book is the second in Bennett’s four books about life in the Five Towns (the real life Potteries in Staffordshire). It tells the story …

Little Bear

Read by Carolyn Frances


Laura Rountree Smith


A story for children about a little bear with no name, “there were not enough names to go round,” and his adventures in finding one. (Summar…

Manfred

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George Gordon, Lord Byron


Manfred is a dramatic poem in three acts by Lord Byron, and possibly a self confessional work. A noble, Manfred, is haunted by the memory of…

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