Published 1900 onward
Joan Thursday
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Louis Joseph Vance
Minor potboiler is a change of pace from the author of the Lone Wolf detective series. Tenement beauty (and wannabe stage-star) Joan Thursb…
Ruffles and Danny, or the Responsibilty of Ruffles
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Margery Watson
A nice little story about a widower, his 18-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son, and their vacation from their home in Colorado to the shor…
The Late Mattia Pascal
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Luigi Pirandello
Mattia Pascal grew up in a small Italian town not dissimilar to that of the author's upbringing. Pascal leads a somewhat feckless boyhood, a…
Bransford Of Rainbow Range
Read by David Wales
Eugene Manlove Rhodes
A genuine cowboy who speaks a bit of Greek? Ditto a bit of The Litany? And more than a little verse, including (would you believe?) Alice In…
The Hundredth Chance
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Ethel M. Dell
In this prequel to "Charles Rex'' by Ethel M. Dell you will meet the aristocratic blackguard Lord Saltash for whom our distressed heroi…
The Eye of Dread
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Payne Erskine
The Civil War is upon the United States, and the town of Leauvite has sent away its young men, among them Peter Junior and Richard Kildene. …
Mont Oriol: or A Romance of Auvergne
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Guy de Maupassant
Young bride Christiane arrives in Auvergne to "take the waters" with her husband, described as "a sickly flower, or a sucking…
The Book of Clever Beasts
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Myrtle Reed
A humorous book, hitting off the many writers who have returned to nature and made intimate friends in the Animal World. The author describe…
The Leopard's Claw
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George W. Ellis
A love and adventure story with the West African jungle as the main backdrop. We gain some insight into the spiritual influence of African s…
Angelica
Read by Krista Zaleski
Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
Angelica's dearest wish is to better herself. Not to be a factory worker, struggling every day to survive, but to be a lady. Refined, respec…
Human Toll
Read by Kirsty Leishman
Barbara Baynton
Ursula (Ursie) Ewart, orphaned as a young child, is sent away from her home in the Australian bush. While Ursie was previously doted on by s…
The Third Person
Read by Anthony Orr
Henry James
The Third Person is an amusing spoof on spooking. The 'ghostly man about the house' in whom two increasingly competitive maiden ladies come …
Twilight Sleep
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Edith Wharton
Wharton miraculously finds it possible to satirize the very rich while simultaneously showing compassion and even grudging admiration for so…
Lady Into Fox
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David Garnett
When Sylvia Tebrick, the 24-year-old wife of Richard Tebrick, suddenly turns into a fox while they are out walking in the woods, Mr. Tebrick…
The Lonely Warrior
Read by Lee Smalley
Claude Washburn
An idealistic American enlists and fights in The Great War. This novel focuses on his life after returning to the US “hard-boiled” and cynic…
Andrew the Glad (Dramatic Reading)
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Maria Thompson Daviess
"There are some women who will brew mystery from the decoction of even a very simple life. Matilda is one of them, remarked the major t…
Lebensgeschichte der Erde
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Willy Pastor
Willy Pastor versteht die Umwelt (Erde, Sonnensystem, Universum) als eigenständigen Organismus. Am Beispiel der Erde grenzt er sich von…
Elsie And The Child; A Tale Of Riceyman Steps And Other Stories
Read by David Wales
Arnold Bennett
Thirteen short stories (1924) by a master story teller of the early twentieth century. His writings, fiction and nonfiction, were popular wi…
All the Sad Young Men
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
A collection of short stories featuring a suite of wealthy protagonists navigating the perceived hardships of 1920s society. The themes cent…
The Crimson Gardenia And Other Tales Of Adventure
Read by David Wales
Rex Beach
Published in 1916, this book collects eleven stories originally published in several different magazines. Beach’s adventure stories were im…