General Fiction
The Mayor of Casterbridge (version 2)
Read by Bruce Pirie
Thomas Hardy
Irritated and drunken, an itinerant farm-worker sells his wife and child to a stranger. Thus begins The Mayor of Casterbridge, set in rural …
The Vicomte De Bragelonne
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Alexandre Dumas
After The Three Muskateers and Twenty Years After the adventurous story of Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan continues!The Vicomte of Br…
The Cloak
Read by Bob Neufeld
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
"The Cloak" is a short story by Ukrainian-born Russian author Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story and its author have had …
Tales of the Jazz Age
Read by Don W. Jenkins
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Divided into three separate parts, according to…
Null-ABC
Read by Corinna Schultz
H. Beam Piper
"There's some reaction these days that holds scientists responsible for war. Take it one step further: What happens if "book-learn…
That Affair at Elizabeth
Read by Cate Barratt
Burton Egbert Stevenson
A detective novel set in turn-of-the-century New York City, in which a young lawyer plays the sleuth. Packed with plot twists (and the ubiqu…
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fa…
The War in the Air
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H. G. Wells
War in the Air was written during a prolific time in H. G. Wells's writing career. Having withdrawn from British politics to spend more time…
Scarhaven Keep
Read by Cate Barratt
J. S. Fletcher
The northern English sea coast provides a compelling backdrop for this genre of writing; a mysterious disappearance, a love interest, and pl…
Vanity Fair (version 2)
Read by Helen Taylor
William Makepeace Thackeray
One of the great Victorian novels by an author at the height of his powers, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of the calculating, upwardly-mo…
Pariah Planet (version 2)
Read by Mark Nelson
Murray Leinster
When the blue plague appeared on the planet of Dara, fear struck nearby worlds. The fear led to a hate that threatened the lives of millions…
Tik-Tok of Oz
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L. Frank Baum
Betsy Bobbin encounters many strange and exciting adventures and people in the land of Oz; a side-plot is Queen Ann of Oogaboo's mission to …
Jude the Obscure (Version 2)
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Thomas Hardy
Eleven-year-old Jude Fawley, inspired by his teacher Mr. Phillotson, who leaves Marygreen for Christminster to take a university degree, dec…
Daniel Deronda
Read by Becky Miller
George Eliot
In this enduring Victorian classic written in 1876, two stories weave in and out of each other: The first is about Gwendolen, one of Eliot's…
She
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H. Rider Haggard
At 5 years old Leo Vincey is left in the care of a Cambridge professor by the name of Horace Holly. His father leaves him a strange casket w…
Critias
Read by Kevin Johnson
Plato
This is an incomplete dialogue from the late period of Plato's life. Plato most likely created it after Republic and it contains the famous …
Passing
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Nella Larsen
Nella Larsen, a novelist of the Harlem Renaissance, wrote two brilliant novels that interrogated issues of gender and race. In Passing, her…
Ashton-Kirk, Investigator
Read by Pete Milan
John Thomas Mcintyre
Ashton-Kirk, who has solved so many mysteries, is himself something of a problem even to those who know him best. Although young, wealthy, a…
The Odd Women
Read by Elizabeth Klett
George Gissing
George Gissing's 1893 novel takes on the 19th century "Woman Question" by looking at themes of feminism, marriage, and love. The …
The Marvelous Land of Oz (version 2) (Dramatic Reading)
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L. Frank Baum
The Marvelous Land of Oz Being an account of the further adventures of the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman and also the strange experiences of the…