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Crucial Instances

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Edith Wharton


This is Edith Wharton's second published collection of short stories (1901). One of these seven stories, "Copy: A Dialogue," is w…

Villette (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

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Charlotte Brontë


After an unspecified family disaster, protagonist Lucy Snowe travels to the fictional city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school where…

Sacred and Profane Love

Read by Simon Evers


Arnold Bennett


Carlotta Peel is an unusual young woman – clever, self-opinionated, a brilliant author and yearning to love and be loved but also to serve h…

Beauty's Hour

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Olivia Shakespear


The young, intelligent Mary discovers that through an act of will she can transform her appearance to make herself incredibly beautiful. But…

Her Benny

Read by Larraine Paquette


Silas Hocking


A very heart touching story about two homeless children, a brother and sister, living on the streets of Liverpool, England during Victorian …

Stella Maris

Read by Simon Evers


William John Locke


Stellamaris is a young paralysed girl who is confined to a bed in the Channel House overlooking the English Channel. She is cared for by her…

Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)


Edith Œnone Somerville


This is the first of three novels which Edith Somerville and her cousin Violet Martin wrote about the English Major Sinclair Yates who leave…

My Friend Annabel Lee

Read by Daryl Wor


Mary MacLane and Mary Maclane


Published in 1903, this selection of dialogues by Mary MacLane entails a mystery of wondering who she is speaking with. Is it the statue she…

Lilian

Read by Simon Evers


Arnold Bennett


Lilian works in a typewriting office owned by Felix Grig, a middle-aged man of means. The office is run by his spinster sister, Miss Grig, w…

Sanctuary (version 2)

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Edith Wharton


Edith Wharton's early novella focuses on Kate Orme, who begins the story happily in love with her fiance, only to discover that he hides a t…

Leonce und Lena

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Georg Büchner


Das 1895 uraufgeführte Lustspiel Leonce und Lena von Georg Büchner setzt sich an Hand der Liebesgeschichte der Königskinder L…

The Chief Legatee

Read by Tony Oliva


Anna Katharine Green


"I was married to-day in Grace Church. At the altar my bride--you probably know her name, Miss Georgian Hazen--wore a natural look, and…

Cornelli

Read by Jael Baldwin


Johanna Spyri


Cornelli lives in Iller-Stream with her widowed father, who calls on two Ladies of Culture to come spend time with Cornelli during one of hi…

Surprise House

Read by Winnifred Assmann


Abbie Farwell Brown


Our story begins just after Nan Corliss, an eccentric old lady, dies and leaves her strange old house in Crowfield to her nephew, Dr. Owen C…

Andrew the Glad (Dramatic Reading)

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Maria Thompson Daviess


"There are some women who will brew mystery from the decoction of even a very simple life. Matilda is one of them, remarked the major t…

Afternoon Drama Kindness By Julian Poidevin



Kindness by Julian Poidevin Happy family life is disrupted when Tom's son Simon comes to stay. His arrival unearths the past, catalysing a c…

What Dreams May Come

Read by Nicole J. LeBoeuf


Gertrude Atherton


For Harold Dartmouth and Weir Penrhyn, it's love at first sight; love, and an uncanny feeling of recognition which neither understand. Nor d…

The Millionaire Baby

Read by Dawn Larsen


Anna Katharine Green


A reward of five thousand dollars is offered, by Phil Ocumpaugh, to whoever will give such information as will lead to the recovery, alive o…

New Adventures of Alice (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

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John Rae


After reading and re-reading the book many time as a boy and wishing that Lewis Carroll would have written another Alice In Wonderland Book,…

The Pupil

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


Pemberton, a young American with an Oxford education and out of money, takes a job tutoring Morgan Moreen, the 12-year old son of an America…

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