Published 1900 onward
Pierre & Jean
Read by Lee Smalley
Guy de Maupassant
This short novel’s titular characters are brothers. An old family friend dies, leaving without explanation his entire fortune to Jean, the y…
Betty Baird's Ventures
Read by Holly Jenson
Anna Hamlin Weikel
Betty has graduated from the Pines and is now with her parents at their new home on Long Island. When Betty finds out that her father is hav…
The Green Overcoat
Read by Russ Hobbs
Hilaire Belloc
This rollicking novel captures the minor moral dilemma of thin, shy, nervous, Professor Higginson, psychologist, as he comes under the eye o…
The Daredevil
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Maria Thompson Daviess
Roberta, daughter of an American soldier and a French marquise, is returning to the childhood home of her father after his death in the Grea…
The Dream Doctor
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Arthur B. Reeve
The Dream Doctor is a compilation of detective stories featuring Professor Craig Kennedy, a Sherlock-like character who uses his scientific …
His Family
Read by James E. Carson
Ernest Poole
The 1910s is historically considered the decade of greatest social change in history. It saw the advent and proliferation of the automobile,…
The Sword Maker
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Robert Barr
Times are hard in Frankfort. Defeat in war, weak leadership, trade blockades and a starving population lead to a restive and unhappy citizen…
T. Tembarom (Version 2)
Read by Keith Salis
Frances Hodgson Burnett
T. Tembarom is a young man who grew up in New York City, scraping his way by blacking shoes and selling newspapers. On day, he gets notified…
The Red Planet
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William John Locke
Set during WWI in England, The Red Planet is a rich tale about the life in a little English town from the point of view of Major Duncan Mere…
Tales of the Uneasy
Read by Lisa Reichert
Violet Hunt
Nine twisty-turny tales of tragic human drama, played out in Victorian parlors, death beds and lonely country roads. This collection of Viol…
The Trial of Callista Blake
Read by Roger Melin
Edgar Pangborn
In 1959, in the state of New Essex, a witch was on trial. Or so she seemed to many of the jurors who would ultimately decide her fate, and t…
Rain (Version 2)
Read by Linda Hogan
W. Somerset Maugham
Rain charts the moral disintegration of a missionary attempting to convert a Pacific island prostitute named Sadie Thompson. (Introduction b…
Three Lives
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Gertrude Stein
Three Lives tells the stories of three women from the same fictitious town of Bridgeport. The first story is of Anna, a servant to the wealt…
Jim The Story Of A Backwoods Police Dog (And Other Stories)
Read by David Wales
Sir Charles G. D. Roberts
Deputy Sheriff Tug Blackstock wanted a dog to help with his work. As for Jim, at first glance he might almost have been taken for a slim, y…
Echoes of the War
Read by James E. Carson
J. M. Barrie
Short stories with dramatic parts about civilian life in London during the First World War. Some humorous moments. By the author of "Pe…
Betty Baird
Read by Holly Jenson
Anna Hamlin Weikel
This is the first book in the Betty Baird Series of boarding school books, a genre which was popular among young girls in the early 1900s. O…
Peggy Raymond's School Days (or Old Girls And New)
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Harriet Lummis Smith
Published in 1916, this third installment with The Friendly Terrace girls places them in The Girl’s High School, with an array of new charac…
A Cathedral Courtship
Read by Ric F
Kate Douglas Wiggin
An romantic comedy. A pretty young American girls tours English Cathedrals, with her very blue-blooded Aunt. Then boy meets girl. Boy chases…
Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness!
Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
Selma Lagerlöf
“Thy Soul shall bear Witness” (Körkarlen) by the Swedish Nobel Laureate Selma Lagerlöf is a kind of spooky Novel. It was first pub…
Sleeping Fires
Read by Sharon Kilmer
Gertrude Atherton
The story of a love so strong that neither the rigid rules of Society in California in the 1800s nor the very bowels of hell could keep a yo…