General Fiction
An Old-Fashioned Girl
Read by Jennette Selig
Louisa May Alcott
Polly Milton, a 14-year-old country girl, visits her friend Fanny Shaw and her wealthy family in the city for the first time. Poor Polly is …
The Secret Garden (version 4 dramatic reading)
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children's novel is about orphaned Mary Lennox, who is sent to live with her uncle at Misslethwaite Manor …
Pollyanna
Read by Mary Anderson
Eleanor H. Porter
Pollyanna tells the story of Pollyanna Whittier, a young girl who goes to live with her wealthy Aunt Polly after her father's death. Pollyan…
Cousin Phillis
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Cousin Phillis (1864) is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell about Paul Manning, a youth of seventeen who moves to the country and befriends his mo…
Alcatraz
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Max Brand
This is a story of a wild horse who many said could not be caught or broken, and the man who set out to prove them wrong. (Summary by Richar…
A Damsel in Distress
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P. G. Wodehouse
A Damsel in Distress is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.S. on October 4, 1919 by George H. Doran, New York, and in the …
To the Last Man
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Zane Grey
The story follows an ancient feud between two frontier families that is inflamed when one of the families takes up cattle rustling. The ranc…
Lilith
Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA
George MacDonald
Lilith, written by the father of fantasy literature, George MacDonald, was first published in 1895. Its importance was recognized in its lat…
Far From The Madding Crowd, version 2
Read by Tadhg
Thomas Hardy
Far From The Madding Crowd is Hardy's fourth novel. It centres on the lives of five characters: Gabriel Oak, Bathsheba Everdene, Mr Boldwood…
Lady Susan
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Jane Austen
Jane Austen demonstrated her mastery of the epistolary novel genre in Lady Susan, which she wrote in 1795 but never published. Although the …
The Hound of the Baskervilles (version 2)
Read by Bob Neufeld
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of four crime novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originall…
Great Expectations (version 2)
Read by Peter John Keeble
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations is written in the first person and is virtually a fictional autobiography of “Pip” from his childhood, through often pain…
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
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Howard Pyle
Robin Hood is the archetypal English folk hero; a courteous, pious and swashbuckling outlaw of the mediæval era who, in modern version…
Little Women (version 2)
Read by Abigail Rasmussen
Louisa May Alcott
This story follows the lives of four sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. Set in the tumultuous days of the American Civil war, readers grow to lo…
Little Dorrit (Version 2)
Read by Mil Nicholson
Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit, one of the three great novels of Charles Dickens’ last period, was produced in monthly installments from 1855 to 1857, and is…
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
Read by Ralph Snelson
Edgar Rice Burroughs
This is the fifth of Burroughs' Tarzan novels.Tarzan finds himself bereft of his fortune and resolves to return to the jewel-room of Opar, l…
The Four Faces
Read by Tom Weiss
William Le Queux
Michael Berrington is a bachelor leading a quiet life in London. Overhearing a conversation at his club one day, he becomes interested in a …
Rose in Bloom
Read by Maria Therese
Louisa May Alcott
Opening several years after the close of "Eight Cousins", we find Rose coming home fresh from a voyage overseas, to find much chan…
A Modern Utopia
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H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells's proposal for social reform was the formation of a world state, a concept that would increasingly preoccupy him throughout the …
The Rainbow Trail
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Zane Grey
The Rainbow Trail is a sequel to The Riders of the Purple Sage. Both novels are notable for their protagonists' mild opposition to Mormon po…