Published 1900 onward
The Moving Picture Girls
Read by Cori Samuel
Laura Lee Hope
Ruth and Alice DeVere and their father Hosmer struggle to make ends meet in New York City - times are hard, even for a talented actor like M…
The Canterville Ghost (version 2)
Read by Phil Chenevert
Oscar Wilde
A modern American family move into a traditionally drafty and very haunted English mansion. So far so good but anyone knowing Wilde can expe…
Enterrado en Vida
Read by Victor Villarraza
Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett escribió Enterrado en vida después de su obra más conocida y seria, Cuento de viejas, y siempre la consi…
Tales of the Five Towns
Read by Martin Clifton
Arnold Bennett
This is a selection of short stories recounting, with gentle satire and tolerant good humour, the small town provincial life at the end of t…
The Mystery of the Ravenspurs
Read by Roger Melin
Fred M. White
The Ravenspurs have for generations resided quietly in prosperity and comfort at their seaside castle. But the clan is suddenly besieged wit…
The Pretty Lady
Read by Simon Evers
Arnold Bennett
‘The Pretty Lady’ is considered to be one of Bennett's most revealing and under-rated works. It is the story of a French prostitute, Christi…
The Lady of the Basement Flat
Read by Judi Mason
Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
A naive young girl strikes out on her own and ends up leading a double life in this engaging tale of love lost and found. Summary by Judi M…
Running Water
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
A. E. W. Mason
Although A.E.W. Mason is best known for The Four Feathers, an adventure novel of 1902 set in Egypt and the Sudan (and filmed several times),…
The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry
Read by Sandra Cullum
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Letitia, Aggie and Lizzie are at it again, solving mysteries, getting into scrapes. Is there no end to the antics of these three spinster la…
The Man of the Desert
Read by LikeManyWaters
Grace Livingston Hill
Fleeing from an aggressive suitor, Hazel Radcliffe becomes hopelessly lost in the Arizona desert. Exhausted, she falls unconscious from her …
Sons and Lovers (Version 2)
Read by Tony Foster
D. H. Lawrence
Lawrence summarised the plot of Sons and Lovers in a letter to Edward Garnett in 1912:“It follows this idea: a woman of character and refine…
Rilla of Ingleside (version 2)
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Rilla of Ingleside (1921) is the final book in the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, but was the sixth of the eight "…
こころ (Kokoro)
Read by ekzemplaro
Sōseki Natsume
語り手は、鎌倉の海岸で、先生と知り合いになる。東京に戻ってからも度々、先生の家を訪ねた。先生は、苦悩持っていた。先生の友人Ｋが、先生が若い頃に自殺をした。先生は、毎月、その友人の墓を訪ねていた。 語り手が、大学を卒業し、父の病の為に帰省したままで、東京に戻れない時、先生からの遺書…
Fifty-one Tales (version 2)
Read by Rosslyn Carlyle
Lord Dunsany
A multitude of very short stories populated with things that lurk in the dark corners of human imagination. Wonderfully crafted and sometime…
The Ghost Girl
Read by Kate Follis
Henry Kitchell Webster
Henry Kitchell Webster is an American author best know for his detective novels. The Ghost Girl opens with a murder mystery. A young woman's…
Daddy-Long-Legs Version 2
Read by Jo Karabasz
Jean Webster
Jerusha Abbott was brought up at the John Grier Home, an old-fashioned orphanage. The children were wholly dependent on charity and had to w…
A Thin Ghost And Others
Read by David Wales
M. R. James
Five ghost stories, published in 1920, by the early twentieth century master of ghostery. - Summary by david wales
The Flood
Read by R. S. Steinberg
Émile Zola
A well-to-do French farm family is destroyed by a flood. The story, thrilling to the very end, is told from the point of view of the family…
Three Stories & Ten Poems
Read by KevinS
Ernest Hemingway
The author arranged for this collection of three short stories and ten poems to be printed in a small run of 300 copies in Dijon (France.) T…
The Financier
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Theodore Dreiser
In Philadelphia, Frank Cowperwood, whose father is a banker, makes his first money by buying cheap soaps on the market and selling it back w…