Fiction
Codename Vengeance
Read by David Wright
David Wright
When an American pilot on loan to the RAF shoots down three British spitfires in his own squadron, and then crash-lands at a German airbase …
Kashtanka
Read by Grant Hurlock
Anton Chekhov
"Kashtanka," a shaggy-dog story penned by Anton Chekhov in seven parts and first published in 1887, relates the experiences of its…
Pocket Island
Read by Roger Melin
Charles Clark Munn
Along the coast of Maine are littered thousands of small islands. One such, named 'Pocket Island' by the locals was so called because of a p…
The Magic Skin
Read by James E. Carson
Honoré de Balzac
Something along the lines of Dorian Gray as part of the Comedies Humane Philosophique, this is Balzac's first successful novel. He even wrot…
A Sweet Little Maid
Read by Diana Majlinger
Amy Ella Blanchard
Dimple, the nine-year-old little girl is accustomed to being always the first. She has Bubbles, a little coloured girl as playmate and serva…
Ramona (version 2)
Read by Jacquerie
Helen Hunt Jackson
Set in Old California in the wake of the Mexican-American War, Ramona is two stories at once. It is the story of the love between a part-Nat…
The Figure in the Carpet
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
The story ostensibly concerns a young literary critics who greatly admires the writer Hugh Vereker. A meeting with Vereker, however, shows h…
Amy Foster
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Joseph Conrad
Classic shortish story by Conrad that relates his self-thought alienation from British society, as a young foreign man survives a shipwreck …
Members of the Family
Read by David Wales
Owen Wister
Members of the Family is a collection of eight short stories about people in the Wyoming Territory in the late 19th and early 20th centuries…
Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People
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Charles Dickens
Sketches by Boz is a collection of short pieces published by Charles Dickens in 1836 accompanied by illustrations by George Cruikshank. It c…
Clayhanger
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Arnold Bennett
This first of a trilogy of novels is a coming-of-age story set in the Midlands of Victorian England, following Edwin Clayhanger as he leaves…
Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School; or, The Parting of the Ways
Read by ashleighjane
Jessie Graham Flower and Josephine Chase
The four series follow Grace Harlowe and her friends through high school, college, abroad during World War I, and on adventures around Ameri…
The Octopus
Read by Delmar H Dolbier
Frank Norris
Frank Norris based his 1901 novel The Octopus (A Story of California) on the Mussel Slough Tragedy of 1880, a bloody conflict between ranche…
Better Angel
Read by Greg W.
Richard Meeker
In 1933, Forman Brown wrote, under the pseudonym Richard Meeker, a controversial novel called Better Angel, about a young man coming to term…
Facing the Flag
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Jules Verne
Like The Begum's Millions, which Verne published in 1879, it has the theme of France and the entire world threatened by a super-weapon (what…
The Titan
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Theodore Dreiser
Cowperwood moves to Chicago with his new wife Aileen. He decides to take over the street-railway system. He bankrupts several opponents with…
Wild Blue Yonder: A Novel of the 1960s
Read by Jack B. Rochester
Jack B. Rochester
Wild Blue Yonder is the coming-of-age story of Nathaniel Hawthorne Flowers, a smart but sheltered boy from suburban Chicago whose beloved fa…
The Lost City
Read by Nathalie J.
Joseph E. Badger and Harry Hazelton
Bruno and Waldo Gillespie are orphaned brothers living with the extremely eccentric Professor Phaeton Featherwit. One day they set off in on…