Published 1900 onward
Shifting Sands
Read by Roger Melin
Sara Ware Bassett
After days of fog Stanley Heath, a stranger whose power-boat runs aground on the treacherous Cape Cod shoals, stumbles into the Homestead an…
Saint's Progress
Read by Simon Evers
John Galsworthy
Edward Pierson is the widowed vicar of a London church. He has two daughters, Eve and Noel, who is 17. In essence, the novel follows the bat…
Fame and Fortune Weekly No. 2: Born to Good Luck; or The Boy Who Succeeded
Read by Keith Salis
Frank Tousey
Dick Armstrong is an enterprising young man who works his way out of a slave-labor situation to become a successful businessman at only age …
Nell and Her Grandfather
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William James Mcglothlin
If you have heard of the Dickens novel, The Old Curiosity Shop, and remember Nell Trent, the beautiful and virtuous young girl of "not …
The Street Called Straight
Read by Simon Evers
Basil King
Henry Guion, a rich and successful American businessman, faces complete ruin and jail as he has embezzled all his client’s money. He tells h…
Caliban by the Yellow Sands
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Percy MacKaye
Caliban, the primitive, savage son of the witch Sycorax and the evil frog-tiger god Setebos, seeks to obtain knowledge and become civilized …
Bread
Read by WildShimmeringPath
Charles G. Norris
Bread by Charles G. Norris reads like a working class Great Gatsby with a tragic female main character. The author is said to have influence…
Emily Climbs, Version 3
Read by Rachel
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Teenage orphan Emily Starr of New Moon has always wanted to be a great writer. But her old-fashioned aunt, who has never liked Emily’s writi…
Laughter Limited
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Nina Wilcox Putnam
When some people write the story of their life it is a sign that they are dead. There are in the motion-picture world also a class of dead …
The Yarn of Old Harbour Town
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William Clark Russell
This novel opens in 1805, during the Napoleonic Wars between England and France. A retired sailor, Captain Acton, reminisces about his time …
The Blue Germ
Read by Brian Fullen
Maurice Nicoll
For your consideration: an English physician and a Russian research scientist jointly develop a bacillus that transforms disease causing ger…
Short Stories from Locomotive Engineers Journal, Volume 52
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Various
These short stories are taken from the Locomotive Engineers Journal, Volume 52 which covers the year, 1918. Don't expect any trains -- these…
Harmer John; An Unworldly Story
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
Hjalmar Johanson (novel, 1926) is a boyish unworldly Swedish body builder come to Walpole’s fictional cathedral town of Polchester. His name…
It's Like This, Cat (Version 3)
Read by Amanda Rumbaugh
Emily Neville
The Newbery-winning novel about 14-year-old Dave Mitchell, coming of age in New York City in the 1960s. A first-person narrative of everyday…
Bee and Butterfly, A Tale of Two Cousins
Read by Carol Sutton
Lucy Foster Madison
The wonderful evolution of a caterpillar, or grub, into a beautifully winged creature must inspire admiration in everyone. More marvelous st…
When Woman Proposes
Read by Jenn Broda
Anne Warner
Does love at first sight exist? The heroine of this story, Natalie, seems to think so and is willing to move heaven and earth in order to m…
Rose Cottingham
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Netta Syrett
Rose Cottingham, orphaned at an early age, is being raised in the repressive household of her grandmother, who has old-fashioned ideas about…
The Stoneground Ghost Tales, Version 2
Read by Peter Yearsley
Edmund Gill Swain
A collection of gentle ghost stories set around a church by the fens in East Anglia. The author was an associate of Montague Rhodes James, …
Initiation
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Robert Hugh Benson
A tale of all types of human pain (physical, spiritual, and psychological), this book teaches what it means to be truly human. An interestin…
Family Pride
Read by Celine Major
Mary Jane Holmes
Bestselling and prolific American Author Mary Jane Holmes never disappoints. Family Pride is another superb example of the enchanting Victor…