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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…

The Financier

Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)


Theodore Dreiser


In Philadelphia, Frank Cowperwood, whose father is a banker, makes his first money by buying cheap soaps on the market and selling it back w…

El País del Placer

Read by Victor Villarraza


Edith Wharton


El país del placer llamada así por la primera traducción en español de esta novela de Edith Wharton publicada po…

Blazed Trail Stories and Stories Of The Wild Life

Read by David Wales


Stewart Edward White


Thirteen short stories by a popular writer of the early 20th century (not to be confused with an earlier book Blazed Trail). White's books …

A Girl of the Limberlost (version 2)

Read by Patience Charles


Gene Stratton-Porter


Set in the Limberlost swamp of Indiana, A Girl of the Limberlost follows Elnora Comstock through struggles and triumphs as she seeks educati…

Adrift in New York

Read by Bridget Gaige


Horatio Alger, Jr.


John Linden is a very wealthy man. The people who should inherit his property are his nephew, Curtis Waring, his niece Florence Linden, and …

The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel

Read by David Wales


A. E. W. Mason


Inspector Hanaud is a member of the French Sûreté. He is said to have been the model for Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, as w…

Auf der Galerie

Read by Thorsten Herbold


Franz Kafka


In der Erzählung “Auf der Galerie” beschreibt Franz Kafka in zwei komplett gegensätzlichen Perspektiven die Darbietung einer K&uum…

Parnassus on Wheels

Read by Dawn Larsen


Christopher Morley


Parnassus on Wheels is about a fictional traveling book-selling business. The original owner of the business, Roger Mifflin, sells it to 39-…

Five Tales

Read by David Wales


John Galsworthy


This 1918 book consists of five short stories or novelettes by Galsworthy. They are The First and Last (1914), A Stoic, The Apple Tree (1916…

The Spider

Read by Don W. Jenkins


Fergus Hume


Arthur Vernon, member of the Athenian club and member of “society,” has a secret. His father has died and left him destitute, so he has begu…

Die Stadt ohne Juden

Read by Availle


Hugo Bettauer


In Wien hat man das Problem des Antisemitismus gelöst: Die Juden haben bis zum Ende des Jahres Zeit, Österreich zu verlassen. Die …

The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne

Read by Simon Evers


William John Locke


Marcus Ordeyne is a middle aged bachelor schoolmaster who has inherited both money and a title and thus is able to lead a life of leisure. O…

Royal Highness

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Thomas Mann


Royal Highness is the story of Prince Klaus Heinrich, a member of a struggling German duchy and an exotic American heiress who comes to live…

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