Published 1900 onward
The Third Person
Read by Anthony Orr
Henry James
The Third Person is an amusing spoof on spooking. The 'ghostly man about the house' in whom two increasingly competitive maiden ladies come …
The Book of Clever Beasts
Read by Daryl Wor
Myrtle Reed
A humorous book, hitting off the many writers who have returned to nature and made intimate friends in the Animal World. The author describe…
The Crimson Gardenia
Read by David Wales
Rex Beach
Published in 1916, this book collects eleven stories originally published in several different magazines. Beach’s adventure stories were im…
The Leopard's Claw
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George W. Ellis
A love and adventure story with the West African jungle as the main backdrop. We gain some insight into the spiritual influence of African s…
Elsie And The Child
Read by David Wales
Arnold Bennett
Thirteen short stories (1924) by a master story teller of the early twentieth century. His writings, fiction and nonfiction, were popular wi…
Angelica
Read by Krista Zaleski
Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
Angelica's dearest wish is to better herself. Not to be a factory worker, struggling every day to survive, but to be a lady. Refined, respec…
Martha by-the-day
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Julie M. Lippmann
A load of meddling leads to comedic scenes in this drama featuring an endearing Irish-American cleaning lady and the people she serves. - Su…
The Lonely Warrior
Read by Lee Smalley
Claude Washburn
An idealistic American enlists and fights in The Great War. This novel focuses on his life after returning to the US “hard-boiled” and cynic…
Human Toll
Read by Kirsty Leishman
Barbara Baynton
Ursula (Ursie) Ewart, orphaned as a young child, is sent away from her home in the Australian bush. While Ursie was previously doted on by s…
Andrew the Glad
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Maria Thompson Daviess
"There are some women who will brew mystery from the decoction of even a very simple life. Matilda is one of them, remarked the major t…
The Valley of Fear
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Valley of Fear is the fourth novel Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about private detective Sherlock Holmes. First published serially in The Str…
Lady Into Fox
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David Garnett
When Sylvia Tebrick, the 24-year-old wife of Richard Tebrick, suddenly turns into a fox while they are out walking in the woods, Mr. Tebrick…
The Bandit of Hell's Bend
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
When Diana Henders' father dies and leaves her responsible for running a cattle ranch in Arizona, along with a gold mine on the property, sh…
The Re-creation of Brian Kent
Read by Warren Kati
Harold Bell Wright
Brian Kent is a bank clerk who is driven by a variety of circumstances to commit a series of thefts from his employer. Remorseful, drunk, s…
The Old Peabody Pew
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Kate Douglas Wiggin
A charming tale of a small New England congregation preparing for Christmas and the unexpected arrival of a woman's long held hope. - Summar…
The Quest for the Rose of Sharon
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Burton Egbert Stevenson
This tale of mystery and its solution contains all the elements which go to make a fascinating story, in which one’s sympathies are awakened…
Gadsby
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Ernest Vincent Wright
Fifty-year-old John Gadsby is alarmed by the decline of his hometown, Branton Hills, and rallies the city's young people to form an "Or…
The Book of Evelyn
Read by MJ Rodriguez
Geraldine Bonner
"The Book of Evelyn" by Geraldine Bonner follows the journey of Evelyn, a widow who moves back to New York City to start afresh. S…
The Prelude To Adventure
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
Olva Dune is a Cambridge undergraduate who commits a murder and at that moment feels the presence of God. In a tour de force Walpole noveliz…
Little Stories
Read by Ben Tucker
Silas Weir Mitchell
Physician and author S. Weir Mitchell brings us a short collection of stories of the human condition. Through diverse settings as the mystic…