Published 1900 onward
Souls for Sale
Read by Deanna Bovee
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
Read by Anna Simon
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…
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…
The Old Ladies
Read by David Wales
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…
Phyllis
Read by JazzyGirl
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…
The End Of The Tether
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
At an age when he should, by rights, be embarking on a well-deserved and comfortable retirement, Captain Whalley, a sailor of the old school…
Just As I Am
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
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 …
The Amethyst Cross
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Fergus Hume
Things look bleak for Lesbia Hales. Her father does not let her marry the man she loves. Her mother is dead. She has to keep secrets in orde…
The Human Boy
Read by David Wales
Eden Phillpotts
This collection of eleven short stories, both humorous and touching, about English school boys was published in 1900. The book was quite pop…
So Big
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Edna Ferber
The story of Selina DeJong and her son Dirk, whom she affectionately calls So Big. After the death of her husband, Selina raises So Big on h…
The Duchess of Wrexe
Read by Simon Evers
Hugh Walpole
Rachel, a spirited young girl, has to choose between Francis Breton, her difficult cousin who has been disowned by the family, and Roddy Sed…
Three Elephant Power and Other Stories
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Andrew Barton Paterson and Banjo Paterson
From Banjo Paterson, bush poet and favorite son of Australia, here is a collection of colorful stories from Australia that offer a window in…
The Treasure
Read by Kristel Tretter
Kathleen Norris
The Treasure is a story about the Salisbury Family and the trivialities of employing help for the household. Mrs. and Mr. Salisbury see the …
Cuentos escogidos
Read by Carlos Lombardi
Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant es un escritor naturalista francés cuya escritura sencilla fue muy admirada en su tiempo y escritores posteriores a…
Futility: A Novel on Russian Themes
Read by Margaret Espaillat
William Alexander Gerhardi
From the preface written by Edith Wharton:Then I fell upon Futility. Some one said: “It's another new novel about Russia” –and every one of …
The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance
Read by Lisa Statler
Marie Corelli
Marie Corelli's book The Life Everlasting examines the world of past lives, mysticism, secret societies and twin souls against a backdrop of…
The Flying U's Last Stand
Read by Lee Smalley
B. M. Bower
Settlers are lured to Montana by a land boom syndicate in a scheme that encroaches on the Flying U Ranch. Members of the Flying U attempt to…
The Gambler
Read by Tom Weiss
Katherine Cecil Thurston
Clodagh, 18 years old, is the eldest daughter of Dennis Asshlin, an Irish gentleman who lives in an area of Ireland called Orristown. Dennis…
The Island of Appledore
Read by Roger Melin
Cornelia Meigs
Any one who knows the coast of New England will know also the Island of Appledore and just where it lies. Such a person can tell you that it…
The Silver Horde
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Rex Beach
The Silver Horde , is set in Kalvik, a fictionalized community in Bristol Bay, Alaska, and tells the story of a down on his luck gold miner …