Published 1900 onward

The Canterville Ghost (version 2)

Read by Phil Chenevert


Oscar Wilde


A modern American family move into a traditionally drafty and very haunted English mansion. So far so good but anyone knowing Wilde can expe…

The Sun Also Rises

Read by KevinS


Ernest Hemingway


The Sun Also Rises (1926) was Hemingway's first novel to be published, though there is his novella The Torrents of Spring which was publishe…

Tales of the Five Towns

Read by Martin Clifton


Arnold Bennett


This is a selection of short stories recounting, with gentle satire and tolerant good humour, the small town provincial life at the end of t…

The Pretty Lady

Read by Simon Evers


Arnold Bennett


‘The Pretty Lady’ is considered to be one of Bennett's most revealing and under-rated works. It is the story of a French prostitute, Christi…

The Moving Picture Girls

Read by Cori Samuel


Laura Lee Hope


Ruth and Alice DeVere and their father Hosmer struggle to make ends meet in New York City - times are hard, even for a talented actor like M…

The Mystery of the Ravenspurs

Read by Roger Melin


Fred M. White


The Ravenspurs have for generations resided quietly in prosperity and comfort at their seaside castle. But the clan is suddenly besieged wit…

Enterrado en Vida

Read by Victor Villarraza


Arnold Bennett


Arnold Bennett escribió Enterrado en vida después de su obra más conocida y seria, Cuento de viejas, y siempre la consi…

Running Water

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


A. E. W. Mason


Although A.E.W. Mason is best known for The Four Feathers, an adventure novel of 1902 set in Egypt and the Sudan (and filmed several times),…

The Lady of the Basement Flat

Read by Judi Mason


Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey


A naive young girl strikes out on her own and ends up leading a double life in this engaging tale of love lost and found. Summary by Judi M…

The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry

Read by Sandra Cullum


Mary Roberts Rinehart


Letitia, Aggie and Lizzie are at it again, solving mysteries, getting into scrapes. Is there no end to the antics of these three spinster la…

Rilla of Ingleside (version 2)

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Lucy Maud Montgomery


Rilla of Ingleside (1921) is the final book in the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, but was the sixth of the eight "…

Sons and Lovers (Version 2)

Read by Tony Foster


D. H. Lawrence


Lawrence summarised the plot of Sons and Lovers in a letter to Edward Garnett in 1912:“It follows this idea: a woman of character and refine…

こころ (Kokoro)

Read by ekzemplaro


Sōseki Natsume


語り手は、鎌倉の海岸で、先生と知り合いになる。東京に戻ってからも度々、先生の家を訪ねた。先生は、苦悩持っていた。先生の友人Kが、先生が若い頃に自殺をした。先生は、毎月、その友人の墓を訪ねていた。 語り手が、大学を卒業し、父の病の為に帰省したままで、東京に戻れない時、先生からの遺書…

The Ghost Girl

Read by Kate Follis


Henry Kitchell Webster


Henry Kitchell Webster is an American author best know for his detective novels. The Ghost Girl opens with a murder mystery. A young woman's…

Fifty-one Tales (version 2)

Read by Rosslyn Carlyle


Lord Dunsany


A multitude of very short stories populated with things that lurk in the dark corners of human imagination. Wonderfully crafted and sometime…

Daddy-Long-Legs Version 2

Read by Jo Karabasz


Jean Webster


Jerusha Abbott was brought up at the John Grier Home, an old-fashioned orphanage. The children were wholly dependent on charity and had to w…

The Flood

Read by R. S. Steinberg


Émile Zola


A well-to-do French farm family is destroyed by a flood. The story, thrilling to the very end, is told from the point of view of the family…

A Thin Ghost And Others

Read by David Wales


M. R. James


Five ghost stories, published in 1920, by the early twentieth century master of ghostery. - Summary by david wales

The Man of the Desert

Read by LikeManyWaters


Grace Livingston Hill


Fleeing from an aggressive suitor, Hazel Radcliffe becomes hopelessly lost in the Arizona desert. Exhausted, she falls unconscious from her …

Three Stories & Ten Poems

Read by KevinS


Ernest Hemingway


The author arranged for this collection of three short stories and ten poems to be printed in a small run of 300 copies in Dijon (France.) T…

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