General Fiction
The Red Room
Read by William Peck
August Strindberg
A young idealistic civil servant, Arvid Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy to become a journalist and author. As he explores various s…
Thais
Read by Rom Maczka
Anatole France
The fourth century ascetic Paphnuce, journeys from his remote desert hermitage to urban Alexandria determined to locate the stunningly beaut…
The Fallen Leaves
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Wilkie Collins
Amelius Goldenheart, the hero of this story, is expelled from a Utopian community in New England and finds himself in London. His story is d…
The Type-Writer Girl
Read by Grant Hurlock
Grant Allen
(under the pseudonym Olive Pratt Rayner)"There is no more pathetic figure in our world to-day than the common figure of the poor young …
The Widow Married: A Sequel to The Widow Barnaby
Read by Celine Major
Frances Milton Trollope
EXCERPT: The existence of Mrs. Barnaby (this name is once more used as the one by which our heroine has hitherto been best known), the exist…
The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Henry Fielding
This novel is sometimes thought of as [Fielding's] first because he almost certainly began composing it before he wrote Shamela and Joseph A…
Pond And Stream
Read by David Wales
Arthur Ransome
This book is part of the author’s "Nature Books For Children" series (three books), which is probably the best indication of its t…
Molly Make-Believe (version 2)
Read by Ashleigh Jane
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Carl Stanton is an invalid suffering from an unusual bout of rheumatism. His fiancée is gone for the winter and though he begs her to…
Anne of Green Gables (Version 7)
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
In the first book of this classic series, Anne Shirley is an 11 year-old orphan girl who has never had a true home. Through an adoption mist…
The House that Jack Built
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Unknown
"The House that Jack Built" is a standard of juvenile literature that delights children and adults alike with the increasingly len…
Our Little Hindu Cousin
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Blanche Mcmanus
This book is one of a series that aims at describing other cultures to children in an entertaining way that honors the culture, educates the…
A Touch of the Sun and Other Stories
Read by David Wales
Mary Hallock Foote
Four short stories by Mary Hallock Foote (1847–1938), an American author and illustrator. She is best known for her illustrated short storie…
Pee-Wee Harris
Read by Tom Weiss
Percy Keese Fitzhugh
Percy Keese Fitzhugh was an American author of nearly 100 books for children and young adults. The bulk of his work revolves around the fict…
Miss Lulu Bett
Read by Jacquerie
Zona Gale
Lulu Bett is a spinster, living at the turn of the 20th century essentially as a servant with her sister Ina and brother-in-law Dwight. She …
The Firm of Nucingen
Read by James E. Carson
Honoré de Balzac
Part of the Comedie Humane and a "supplementary" tale to go with Father Goriot and Gobseck. Nucingen is the married family name of…
Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School; or, Fast Friends in the Sororities
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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…
Charles Dickens' Children Stories - Retold by His Grandaughter
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Charles Dickens
These re-tellings of well known stories originally written by Charles Dickens are all focused on the children in them. Their humor and path…
Ontario Public School Geography
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Unknown
This Ontario Public School textbook, published in 1922, contains some fascinating facts of a world which no longer exists. It seems politica…
A Deal With The Devil
Read by Angelique G. Campbell
Eden Phillpotts
A Deal with the Devil is a classic tale with a humorous twist. We find that on the night preceeding his 100th birthday Grandpapa, a cantanke…
The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy
Read by Celine Major
Frances Milton Trollope
The industrial revolution led to the rise of manufacture and, thus, the cotton mill factories. This important novel tells about the plight o…