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Thurley Ruxton

Read by Paul Hansen


Philip Verrill Mighels


This is a rags to riches romance about an exceedingly beautiful, poor, young girl (Thurley Ruxton) who is mentored by one of New York’s elit…

Souls for Sale

Read by Deanna Bovee


Rupert Hughes


Perhaps the most commercially successful Hollywood novel of the 1920s, Rupert Hughes' Souls for Sale is a direct response to contemporaneous…

The Position of Peggy Harper

Read by Anna Simon


Leonard Merrick


Novel set in the shabby world of British (third-rate) theaters circa 1900. Christopher Tatham tries to survive by going from bit part to bit…

The Third Circle

Read by David Wales


Frank Norris


Sixteen short stories by the American novelist Benjamin Frank Norris Jr (1870-1902) who wrote predominantly in the naturalist genre. He liv…

The Mother's Recompense

Read by Anne Fletcher


Edith Wharton


Kate Cephane, now living in self-imposed exile in France, left her three-year-old daughter Anne behind when she fled her impossibly unhappy …

Maria Chapdelaine (version 2)

Read by Bruce Pirie


Louis Hémon


The novel Maria Chapdelaine portrays life in rural Quebec at the beginning of the 20th century. Published first in French in 1913, it is a f…

The Old Ladies

Read by David Wales


Hugh Walpole


“Quite a number of years ago there was an old rickety building on the rock above Seatown in Polchester, and it was one of a number in an old…

Sisters

Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)


Ada Cambridge


Ada Cambridge (November 21, 1844 - July 19, 1926), later known as Ada Cross, was an English born Australian writer. While she gained recogni…

The Regeneration of Lord Ernie

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Algernon Blackwood


"The Regeneration of Lord Ernie is a story about a young man with no passion for life, he was very capable and the heir to a large fami…

1916: First Chapters Collection

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Various


These are first chapters to books first published in 1916. Readers, following is a tentative list culled from Wikipedia's article on the yea…

The Human Boy

Read by David Wales


Eden Phillpotts


This collection of eleven short stories, both humorous and touching, about English school boys was published in 1900. The book was quite pop…

Just As I Am

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon


The murder has finally been solved. After 20 years, Humphrey Vargas came with his dog, seemingly from no where, and informed the magistrate …

The Amethyst Cross

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Fergus Hume


Things look bleak for Lesbia Hales. Her father does not let her marry the man she loves. Her mother is dead. She has to keep secrets in orde…

Phyllis

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Maria Thompson Daviess


Phyllis is a lonely little rich girl who comes with her millionaire father and invalid mother to live in Byrdsville, Tennessee. There she me…

Three Elephant Power and Other Stories

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Andrew Barton Paterson


From Banjo Paterson, bush poet and favorite son of Australia, here is a collection of colorful stories from Australia that offer a window in…

Futility: A Novel on Russian Themes

Read by Margaret Espaillat


William Alexander Gerhardi


From the preface written by Edith Wharton:Then I fell upon Futility. Some one said: “It's another new novel about Russia” –and every one of …

The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance

Read by Lisa Statler


Marie Corelli


Marie Corelli's book The Life Everlasting examines the world of past lives, mysticism, secret societies and twin souls against a backdrop of…

The End Of The Tether

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


At an age when he should, by rights, be embarking on a well-deserved and comfortable retirement, Captain Whalley, a sailor of the old school…

The Dinner Club

Read by Kirsten Wever


Sapper


Herman Cyril McNeile, better known as Sapper, was one of England’s most popular fiction writers during the period between World Wars I and I…

The Gambler

Read by Tom Weiss


Katherine Cecil Thurston


Clodagh, 18 years old, is the eldest daughter of Dennis Asshlin, an Irish gentleman who lives in an area of Ireland called Orristown. Dennis…

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