Fiction
Fables in Slang
Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012)
George Ade
While a columnist for The Chicago Record humorist George Ade penned numerous “fables” which were subsequently collected into books. Fables i…
The Magnificent Ambersons
Read by Jeannie
Booth Tarkington
The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington which won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize. It was the second novel in the Growth trilo…
The Headless Horseman
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Thomas Mayne Reid
The horse is perfect in all its parts—a splendid steed, saddled, bridled, and otherwise completely caparisoned. In it there appears nothing …
Lost and Not Found
Read by Teel McClanahan III
Teel McClanahan III
Lost and Not Found details one man’s journey all the way from being laid off from his mundane corporate job to becoming the author he truly …
The Dark House
Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)
George Manville Fenn
An extremely wealthy but reclusive man has died, leaving an eccentric will which hints at great riches hidden somewhere in the house. Most …
Red Arrows in the Night
Read by Maria Therese
Daniel A. Lord
The Scarlet Archer of Agincourt is claimed by the Erkenwold’s as their family ghost. Tradition held that the death of an important Erkenwold…
The Amateur
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Richard Harding Davis
On the steamer on his way to London, Austin Ford meets a young woman, who is going to London to find her missing husband. Being a specialist…
Probable Sons
Read by Laura Caldwell
Amy Le Feuvre
Little Milly is left an orphan after the death of her mother and sent to live with her bachelor uncle, who has no use for children, especial…
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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Laurence Sterne
This is volume 3 of 4.The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy) is a novel by Laurence Sterne.…
Is He Popenjoy ?
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Anthony Trollope
Trollope returns in Is He Popenjoy to two of his favorite subjects: property and inheritance. As in "Doctor Thorne," the issues ar…
Janet of the Dunes
Read by Roger Melin
Harriet Theresa Comstock
Known primarily for her children's books, Harriet T. Comstock would occasionally depart from that genre and showcase her writing talent in a…
An Amiable Charlatan
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E. Phillips Oppenheim
An Englishman is enjoying his dinner at Stephano's, at which he is a regular diner. A man enters quickly, sits at his table, starts eating h…
Rose O' The River
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Kate Douglas Wiggin
Rose Wiley is a pretty country girl. She's engaged to Stephen Waterman, a country boy. She is quite content, until Claude Merril, a man from…
Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College
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Jessie Graham Flower and Josephine Chase
Set after the Grace Harlowe High School series, Grace and her friends Miriam and Anne start a new chapter of their lives as Freshmen at Over…
The Highwayman
Read by James E. Carson
H. C. Bailey
A romance and adventure novel, set in England during the reign of Queen Anne. The book is much unlike the author's later detective short sto…
Christopher Quarles
Read by Tony Posante
Percy James Brebner
Christopher Quarles is a professor of philosophy and a private consulting detective. Quarles, along with his granddaughter Zena, assists Pol…
The Diary of a Goose Girl
Read by Maria Therese
Kate Douglas Wiggin
The "Goose Girl" is a young and somewhat independent lady who, in fleeing from her lover with whom there had been a "little t…
East Lynne
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Mrs. Henry Wood
Ellen Wood (1814-1887) was an English novelist, better known as Mrs. Henry Wood. She wrote over 30 novels, many of which (especially East Ly…
The Treasure
Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Lagerlöf was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Pr…
Mystery at Geneva
Read by Cate Barratt
Rose Macaulay
Henry Beechtree, a newspaper correspondent for the British Bolshevist, is covering the latest otherwise sleepy session of the League of Nati…