Fiction
The Swiss Family Robinson (Version 2)
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Johann David Wyss
First published in 1812, The Swiss Family Robinson may sometimes seem old-fashioned to modern readers, especially the family’s attitude towa…
An Old-Fashioned Girl
Read by Jennette Selig
Louisa May Alcott
Polly Milton, a 14-year-old country girl, visits her friend Fanny Shaw and her wealthy family in the city for the first time. Poor Polly is …
The Secret Garden (version 4 dramatic reading)
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children's novel is about orphaned Mary Lennox, who is sent to live with her uncle at Misslethwaite Manor …
Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 2
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Various
In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious s…
Around the World in Eighty Days (version 4)
Read by Ralph Snelson
Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Ve…
Cousin Phillis
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Cousin Phillis (1864) is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell about Paul Manning, a youth of seventeen who moves to the country and befriends his mo…
The Moonstone
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Wilkie Collins
The story concerns a young woman called Rachel Verinder who inherits a large Indian diamond, the Moonstone, on her eighteenth birthday.The b…
Alcatraz
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Max Brand
This is a story of a wild horse who many said could not be caught or broken, and the man who set out to prove them wrong. (Summary by Richar…
A Damsel in Distress
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P. G. Wodehouse
A Damsel in Distress is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.S. on October 4, 1919 by George H. Doran, New York, and in the …
The People of the Black Circle
Read by Mark Nelson
Robert E. Howard
"The People of the Black Circle" is one of the original novellas about Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. H…
To the Last Man
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Zane Grey
The story follows an ancient feud between two frontier families that is inflamed when one of the families takes up cattle rustling. The ranc…
A Princess of Mars (version 2)
Read by Mark Nelson
Edgar Rice Burroughs
John Carter, an American Civil War veteran, goes prospecting in Arizona and, when set upon by Indians, is mysteriously transported to Mars, …
Lilith
Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA
George MacDonald
Lilith, written by the father of fantasy literature, George MacDonald, was first published in 1895. Its importance was recognized in its lat…
BONES ARE WHITE
Read by Scott Sigler
Scott Sigler
A collection of nine horror stories created by New York Times best-selling novelist Scott Sigler, author of NOCTURNAL, INFECTED, CONTAGIOUS …
Treasure Island (Version 4)
Read by Mark F. Smith
Robert Louis Stevenson
This is the extraordinary tale of a boy, Jim Hawkins, who comes into possession of Captain Flint's treasure map, after a buccaneer takes a r…
The Hound of the Baskervilles (version 2)
Read by Bob Neufeld
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of four crime novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originall…
Great Expectations (version 2)
Read by Peter John Keeble
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations is written in the first person and is virtually a fictional autobiography of “Pip” from his childhood, through often pain…
The Best Man
Read by Gail Mattern
Grace Livingston Hill
Cyril Gordon, a young and handsome secret service agent is running from pursuers who desperately want the information he holds. He hides out…
Anna Karenina, Book 4
Read by MaryAnn
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. In Book 4, An…
David Copperfield
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Charles Dickens
"David Copperfield" or "The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blun…