General Fiction
Selected Essays
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Voltairine De Cleyre
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) was, according to Emma Goldman, "the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced.&…
The Hidden Places
Read by Roger Melin
Bertrand W. Sinclair
Hollister, returning home from the war physically scarred but otherwise healthy and intact, finds life difficult among society, and so choos…
Mudfog and Other Sketches
Read by Bob Neufeld
Charles Dickens
The Mudfog Papers was written by Victorian era novelist Charles Dickens and published from 1837–38 in the monthly literary serial Bentley's …
Candide (version 3)
Read by John Van Stan
Voltaire
Ever since 1759, when Voltaire wrote "Candide" in ridicule of the notion that this is the best of all possible worlds, this world …
The Rose Garden Husband
Read by Mary Herndon Bell
Margaret Widdemer
This novel was written by Margaret Widdemer, who won the Pulitzer prize for her collection of poetry in 1919. Phyllis is a 25-years-old chi…
The Adventures of Ulysses
Read by Rebecca Dittman
Charles Lamb
Lamb used Homer's Odyssey as the basis for the re-telling of the story of Ulysses's journey back from Troy to his own kingdom of Ithaca. Not…
Rappaccini's Daughter
Read by Brett W. Downey
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The story is set in Padua in a distant, but unspecified past. From his quarters, Giovanni, a young student of letters, observes Beatrice, th…
Vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón
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Vicente Espinel
Las «Relaciones de la vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón» (1618) son una novela picaresca, provista de muchos elementos …
The Life of George Washington in Words of One Syllable
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Josephine Pollard
The Life story of a public man cannot help being to some extent the same thing as a history of the times in which he lived, and to the case …
Die Hochzeit des Mönchs
Read by Eva K.
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
Kein geringerer als Dante Alighieri wird hier zum Erzähler. Am Fürstenhof in Verona gibt er seine Geschichte über den Mö…
The Child's Book of American Biography
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Mary Stoyell Stimpson
In every country there have been certain men and women whose busy lives have made the world better or wiser. The names of such are heard so …
Tono-Bungay
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H. G. Wells
Tono-Bungay is a realist semi-autobiographical novel. It is narrated by George Ponderevo, a science student who is drafted in to help with t…
Vera
Read by Greg W.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
Vera (1921) by Elizabeth von Arnim is a black comedy based on her disastrous second marriage to Earl Russell: a mordant analysis of the roma…
Hilda Lessways
Read by Simon Evers
Arnold Bennett
This book is the second in Bennett’s four books about life in the Five Towns (the real life Potteries in Staffordshire). It tells the story …
The Golden Web
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Stirling Deane has sold the Little Anna Gold Mine which he discovered in South Africa. The sale has made him a rich man and the head of the …
Murder in the Sacristy
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Daniel A. Lord
A sacristan is found murdered in the sacristy and the safe robbed of valuable jewels. All clues seem to point to the priest as the murderer.…
Little Bear
Read by Carolyn Frances
Laura Rountree Smith
A story for children about a little bear with no name, “there were not enough names to go round,” and his adventures in finding one. (Summar…
Our Nig, or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, In A Two-Story White House
Read by Bridget Gaige
Harriet E. Wilson
Frado is a colored girl, living in the USA a few years before the Civil War. She is abandoned by her own white mother in the house of the Be…
Iphigenie auf Tauris - Ein Schauspiel
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Iphigenie auf Tauris ist insofern ein klassisches Drama, als es sowohl einen antiken Stoff behandelt als auch das Menschenideal der Klassik …
Myths That Every Child Should Know
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Hamilton Wright Mabie
A selection of famous and timeless myths, adapted for a junior audience. (Summary by Lynne Thompson)