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"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes": the illuminating diary of a professional lady

Read by Jenn Broda


Anita Loos


In this comic novel written by American author Anita Loos, we follow the adventures of the fictional character Lorelei Lee who is a young bl…

A Woman's War

Read by Lynne T


Warwick Deeping


The fictional small English country town of Roxton boasts two doctors. This tale focuses on the struggles of their wives: Katherine and the …

The Magnificent Adventure

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Emerson Hough


"The Magnificent Adventure" in 1916 was set at the time of the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. This fiction…

The Slayer of Souls

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Robert W. Chambers


Tressa Norne is an American living in China. After her life was spared during a revolution in the area, Tressa finds herself taken as a sla…

Arrowsmith

Read by Lee Smalley


Sinclair Lewis


This 1926 Pulitzer Prize winning novel centers on the title character, a promising medical student who, as a doctor and following several in…

Breaking Point

Read by Peter Eastman


James Edwin Gunn


Machines are infallible. Humans are not. The crew of The Ambassador knew their ship could not possibly fail, but what of themselves? And how…

我等の一團と彼 (Warerano ichidan to kare)

Read by ekzemplaro


Takuboku Ishikawa


歌人、石川啄木が書いた小説。新聞記者だった自身の体験も反映しているように思われる東京の新聞社の社会部の一団が登場する。主人公は、亀山、肺病になって結局、退社してしまう画工の松永、その松永の面倒をよく見た高橋などが登場する。The author is famous with Tan…

The Jack-Knife Man

Read by Roger Melin


Ellis Parker Butler


A lighthearted tale which revolves around old Peter Lane, who lives in a houseboat on the Mississippi River and mostly whiles away his time …

The Thirteen Travelers

Read by David Wales


Hugh Walpole


The year is 1919 and peace has sprung upon the world after the unspeakable carnage of World War I. The place is Hortons, a building of expen…

The Day of the Beast

Read by Brian Keenan


Zane Grey


Daren Lane, a World War I veteran, returns from the battlefields of Europe to the American Midwest. In Middletown USA, he encounters a postw…

Tales of the Long Bow

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G. K. Chesterton


These tales concern the doing of things recognized as impossible to do; impossible to believe; and, as the weary reader may well cry aloud, …

The Emperor of Portugallia

Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)


Selma Lagerlöf


Selma Lagerlöf was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Pr…

Maggie Miller

Read by Celine Major


Mary Jane Holmes


From bestselling and prolific author Mary Jane Holmes, Maggie Miller or Old Hagar's Secret COMES a compelling story of deceit, love, misplac…

The Getting of Wisdom (Version 2)

Read by Kirsty Leishman


Henry Handel Richardson


Henry Handel Richardson was the pseudonym of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, a writer who was born in 1870 to a reasonably well-off fami…

A Lost Lady

Read by Rob Marland


Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather


The young Niel Herbert idolizes Marian Forrester, the beautiful and charismatic wife of a pioneering railroad magnate. After discovering Mrs…

The Castlecourt Diamond Mystery

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Geraldine Bonner


The famous Castlecourt Diamonds have gone missing and the story surrounding their disappearance is strange indeed.  To help sort out th…

Memorias de un vagón de ferrocarril

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Eduardo Zamacois y Quintana and Eduardo Zamacois Y Quintana


Este vagón personificado nos cuenta en primera persona su vida y las historias de los pasajeros aventureros que montan en él. …

Fidelity

Read by Arielle Lipshaw


Susan Glaspell


The small Midwestern town of Freeport was scandalized years ago when Ruth Holland, then a young girl, ran away to the West with a married ma…

Liliecrona's Home

Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)


Selma Lagerlöf


Liliecrona's Home was published in Sweden 1911, translated into English by Anna Harwell and published in London in 1913. The story is set in…

The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories

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Charles Weathers Bump


A collection of offbeat stories. Some are a bit out of the ordinary as suggested by the title story about a freshwater mermaid; some are not…

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