Published 1900 onward
The Spider
Read by Don W. Jenkins
Fergus Hume
Arthur Vernon, member of the Athenian club and member of “society,” has a secret. His father has died and left him destitute, so he has begu…
Royal Highness
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Thomas Mann
Royal Highness is the story of Prince Klaus Heinrich, a member of a struggling German duchy and an exotic American heiress who comes to live…
The de Bercy Affair
Read by Lee Smalley
Louis Tracy
A beautiful French actress with concealed origins and a clandestine involvement with a group of anarchists is brutally murdered in London. C…
Her Mother's Secret
Read by Bridget Gaige
E.D.E.N. Southworth
What kind of secret could a mother be keeping that would keep long time lovers apart, and force her eldest daughter into a hasty marriage? Y…
Bill the Conqueror
Read by Carol Pelster
P. G. Wodehouse
Hailed as one of the funniest writers of the 20th century, P. G. Wodehouse cheerfully radiates humor that is both sophisticated and popular.…
Mrs. Dalloway
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Virginia Woolf
"Mrs. Dalloway" recounts a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in the middle of June 1923. Clarissa Dalloway is a high society Lo…
The Trespasser
Read by Martin Geeson
D. H. Lawrence
Brief Encounter meets Tristan und Isolde - on the Isle of Wight, under a vast sky florid with stars. The consequence is tragic indeed for on…
Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes
Read by Andy Harrington
Maurice Leblanc
The story of an exciting test of wits between world-class thief Arsène Lupin and master detective Herlock Sholmes. Translated from th…
Somehow Good
Read by Helen Taylor
William Frend De Morgan
A mysterious man arrives in London and, in a freak accident, gets electrocuted on an underground train and loses his memory. A young lady ca…
Tales of the Fish Patrol
Read by Don W. Jenkins
Jack London
Wildest among the fisher-folk may be accounted the Chinese shrimp-catchers. It is the habit of the shrimp to crawl along the bottom in vast …
The Secret Places of the Heart
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H. G. Wells
Richard Hardy, a member of the British gentry, tries to resolve problems in his marriage as he travels with a psychiatrist. The book is to a…
A Passage to India
Read by Kirsten Wever
E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India (1924) is widely acclaimed as one of the hundred best literary works of 20th century. Time magazine rates…
The House Behind the Cedars
Read by James K. White
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
In this, Chesnutt's first novel, he tells the tragic story of love set against a backdrop of racism, miscegenation and “passing” during the …
Lonesome Land
Read by Roger Melin
B. M. Bower
Val had come to Montana to marry a cowboy named Manley, envisioning a life of wedded bliss, freedom, and was anticipating happiness in her a…
The Patrician
Read by Simon Evers
John Galsworthy
The book revolves around the story of two love affairs. Miltoun (an aspiring politician) proposes to Mrs Audrey Noel, only to find that she …
Botchan
Read by Availle
Sōseki Natsume
Botchan is the story of a young math teacher from Tokyo whose first assignment takes him to a middle school in the country side. His arrival…
Alice Adams
Read by Jeannie
Booth Tarkington
A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Alice Adams chronicles the attempts of a lower middle class American midwestern family at the turn of the 20…
The Double: A Petersburg Poem
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
This is the story of a mild-mannered civil servant, Mr. Golyadkin, who begins to see his "doppelganger" appearing in his life (at …
Witching Hill
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
E. W. Hornung
The adventures of two young men, which may or may not have to do with the supernatural. - Summary by Nicholas Clifford
The Diamond Pin
Read by Celine Major
Carolyn Wells
Eccentric and wealthy New York widow Ursula Pell loves playing cruel jokes on her guests and particularly on her niece and nephew who are de…