Published 1900 onward

Memorias de un vagón de ferrocarril

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Eduardo Zamacois y Quintana and Eduardo Zamacois Y Quintana


Este vagón personificado nos cuenta en primera persona su vida y las historias de los pasajeros aventureros que montan en él. …

The Getting of Wisdom (Version 2)

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Henry Handel Richardson


Henry Handel Richardson was the pseudonym of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, a writer who was born in 1870 to a reasonably well-off fami…

The Castlecourt Diamond Mystery

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Geraldine Bonner


The famous Castlecourt Diamonds have gone missing and the story surrounding their disappearance is strange indeed.  To help sort out th…

The Mother's Recompense

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Edith Wharton


Kate Cephane, now living in self-imposed exile in France, left her three-year-old daughter Anne behind when she fled her impossibly unhappy …

The Tale of Triona

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William John Locke


Olivia is a newly orphaned young woman looking for adventure and excitement. She rents out her house to Blaise Olifant whose friend Alexis T…

Liliecrona's Home

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Selma Lagerlöf


Liliecrona's Home was published in Sweden 1911, translated into English by Anna Harwell and published in London in 1913. The story is set in…

Fidelity

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Susan Glaspell


The small Midwestern town of Freeport was scandalized years ago when Ruth Holland, then a young girl, ran away to the West with a married ma…

The Third Circle

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Frank Norris


Sixteen short stories by the American novelist Benjamin Frank Norris Jr (1870-1902) who wrote predominantly in the naturalist genre. He liv…

Thurley Ruxton

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Philip Verrill Mighels


This is a rags to riches romance about an exceedingly beautiful, poor, young girl (Thurley Ruxton) who is mentored by one of New York’s elit…

The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories

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Charles Weathers Bump


A collection of offbeat stories. Some are a bit out of the ordinary as suggested by the title story about a freshwater mermaid; some are not…

Maria Chapdelaine (version 2)

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Louis Hémon


The novel Maria Chapdelaine portrays life in rural Quebec at the beginning of the 20th century. Published first in French in 1913, it is a f…

Souls for Sale

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Rupert Hughes


Perhaps the most commercially successful Hollywood novel of the 1920s, Rupert Hughes' Souls for Sale is a direct response to contemporaneous…

The Position of Peggy Harper

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Leonard Merrick


Novel set in the shabby world of British (third-rate) theaters circa 1900. Christopher Tatham tries to survive by going from bit part to bit…

1916: First Chapters Collection

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Various


These are first chapters to books first published in 1916. Readers, following is a tentative list culled from Wikipedia's article on the yea…

The Regeneration of Lord Ernie

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Algernon Blackwood


"The Regeneration of Lord Ernie is a story about a young man with no passion for life, he was very capable and the heir to a large fami…

The Dinner Club

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Sapper


Herman Cyril McNeile, better known as Sapper, was one of England’s most popular fiction writers during the period between World Wars I and I…

The Old Ladies

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Hugh Walpole


“Quite a number of years ago there was an old rickety building on the rock above Seatown in Polchester, and it was one of a number in an old…

Sisters

Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)


Ada Cambridge


Ada Cambridge (November 21, 1844 - July 19, 1926), later known as Ada Cross, was an English born Australian writer. While she gained recogni…

Phyllis

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Maria Thompson Daviess


Phyllis is a lonely little rich girl who comes with her millionaire father and invalid mother to live in Byrdsville, Tennessee. There she me…

Just As I Am

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon


The murder has finally been solved. After 20 years, Humphrey Vargas came with his dog, seemingly from no where, and informed the magistrate …

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