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Pipefuls
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Christopher Morley
A delightful collection of 48 essays on various topics of the human condition that caught his fancy. Witty, insightful and funny of course a…
Notwithstanding
Read by Simon Evers
Mary Cholmondeley
The book starts with Annette Georges choosing between two fates: suicide and running away with a disreputable stranger. She is rescued by a …
The Dust Flower
Read by Simon Evers
Basil King
Rashleigh Allerton, a wealthy New Yorker, quarrels with his well-to-do fiancée Barbara and impetuously says that he will marry instea…
The Saint 50 10 29 It's Snow Use
Simon is hired by a woman who claims a former husband wants to kill her, and that former husband's wife wants to kill him, so she wants Simo…
The Well-Beloved
Read by Simon Evers
Thomas Hardy
'The Well-Beloved' tells the story of Jocelyn Pierston and his love for three generations of women - the grandmother, her daughter and grand…
A Little Book of St. Francis & His Brethren
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E. M. Wilmot-Buxton
A Little Book of St. Francis and His Brethren presents with superlative charm the great simplicities and eternal verities in the life of St …
Riverdale Stories: A Story for Little Folks
Read by Scarlett Martin
Oliver Optic and William Taylor Adams
A compilation of stories of the children of Riverdale who learn life lessons of how to be kind, polite, and helpful as they grow up. Writte…
Robert Elsmere
Read by Simon Evers
Mary Augusta Ward
Essentially the book covers the life of Robert Elsmere, a boyishly intellectual clergyman. The first part covers his meeting with and eventu…
A Student's History of American Literature
Read by Bellona Times
William Simonds
Engaging history of American Lit from the 1600's up through the late 1890's. The author, who was a professor at Knox College, really put a …
The Grell Mystery
Read by Christine Blachford
Frank Froest
Mr Robert Grell, millionaire and socialite, is found murdered in his study on a stormy evening. It's up to Heldon Foyle, the detective, to u…
Silas Strong
Read by Roger Melin
Irving Bacheller
Per the author: "The book has one high ambition. It has tried to tell the sad story of the wilderness itself—to show, from the woodsman…
The Beloved Vagabond
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
The vagabond, Paragot, a truly eccentric bohemian and a wandering scholar with a mysterious past, adopts a London street urchin (whom he cal…
Robert Falconer
Read by Kenneth R. Morefield
George MacDonald
A Victorian novel devoted to beloved character first introduced to readers in MacDonald's David Elginbrod. (Summary by Kenneth R. Morefield)
Sir Dominick Ferrand
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
"Levity" is not a word often applied to Henry James, but this story has about it an attractively lighthearted quality. It tells of…
An Amiable Charlatan (version 2)
Read by Cate Barratt
E. Phillips Oppenheim
A lively adventure of a father-daughter con team enjoying themselves in Edwardian London. - Summary by Cate Barratt
Sense Memory
Read by Brion J. Humphrey
Brion J. Humphrey
If our memory is the thing that shapes and defines us, that informs who we are at our very core, then God help us all...for memory, is a wic…
Fraternity
Read by Simon Evers
John Galsworthy
A satire of middle-class complacency and artistic aspiration. It is the story of a strange bohemian upper-class love triangle, and of a myst…
The Regent
Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)
Arnold Bennett
'The Regent' is, if not a sequel to 'The Card', then a 'Further Adventures of' the eponymous hero of that novel.Denry Machin is now forty-th…
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…