Published 1900 onward
Salome and the Head
Read by Peter Yearsley
E. Nesbit
Edmund Templar is visiting some relatives before being shipped off to the war in South Africa. Wandering in the New Forest, he encounters a …
Short Stories From Life
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Various
Life Magazine held a short story contest. Stories must be no more than 1500 words. Authors were paid for the number of words under that maxi…
Shorty McCabe
Read by Scotty Smith
Sewell Ford
Yes, it's been a couple of years since I quit the ring. . . . I slid into a quiet corner for a month or so, and then I dropped into the only…
The Lost Valley
Read by Jarrod Wetzel-Brown
Algernon Blackwood
A set of twin brothers have spent every waking moment of their lives together and are terrified of separating. However, when both men set th…
An Iceland Fisherman
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Pierre Loti
'An Iceland Fisherman' is an 1886 romance by the celebrated - he was elected to the French Academy in May, 1891 - novelist and naval officer…
Senator North
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Gertrude Atherton
"When, Mr. President, a man, however eminent in other pursuits and whatever claims he may have to public confidence, becomes a member o…
The Incubator Baby
Read by Scotty Smith
Ellis Parker Butler
Marjorie Fielding is born premature and spends her first months of life in an incubator. Her mother is a modern, broad-minded woman eschewin…
A Change of Air
Read by Amy Dunkleberger
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Anyone can make a will by which his possessions are divided after his death but Cordelia Wheaton was ahead of the game for she willed away h…
Poor White: a Novel
Read by Bob R
Sherwood Anderson
This is a story of the effect of industrialization on a small town and its people, around the beginning of the 20th Century. The lead charac…
Green Valley
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Katharine Yirsa Reynolds
"Traveling men have a poor opinion of it. Ministers of the gospel have been known to despair of it. Socially ambitious matrons move out…
Captures
Read by Lee Smalley
John Galsworthy
Brief plot lines of these 16 stories by Nobel Prize winning author John Galsworthy: 01, 02, 03 "A Feud" The breaking of an engagem…
Amor y pedagogía
Read by Epachuko
Miguel de Unamuno and Miguel De Unamuno
Don Avito, hombre de firmes convicciones ilustradas, se propone tener un hijo y criarlo basandose en las doctrinas cientificas para que lleg…
The Rising of the Tide
Read by Bob R
Ida M. Tarbell
The subtitle is "the story of Sabinsport", and the town is the major character. It is a small, Midwestern town in the USA, in 1914…
The Outcry
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Henry James
The story concerns the contemplated sale of a famous painting by a proud but relatively cash-strapped British aristocrat to a wealthy Americ…
The Race Of The Swift
Read by David Wales
Edwin Carlile Litsey
This 1905 collection is of the author’s short animal stories, some previously published in magazines. - Summary by David Wales
The Storm Of London
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Fernande Blaze De Bury
Our clothes tell our story. They reflect our rank, have to suit a perfect event, and much more. But what happens when they disappear? Sounds…
Избранные (Из жизни маленьких людей)
Read by Hanna Ponomarenko
שלום עליכם Sholem Aleichem
Ироничное повествование о том, как "маленькие люди" приезжают в большой город по случаю чрезвычайного происшествия в их местечке.Б…
Чортова кукла
Read by Hanna Ponomarenko
Зинаида Гиппиус
This book is not exactly a novel, as presented, but rather a sampler of characters of St. Petersburg of the early 20th century. However, as …
Windy McPherson's Son
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Sherwood Anderson
Windy McPherson's Son is the story of Sam McPherson's rise in the world of business and search for emotional enlightenment in later life. Mc…
A Cathedral Singer
Read by David Wales
James Lane Allen
New York City in the early 20th century, a boy with an angelic voice, his devoted mother, the great Episcopal Cathedral of Saint John The Di…