Published 1900 onward
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…
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…
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
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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
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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…
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…
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…
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
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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…
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
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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…
Избранные Разсказы / Selected Stories
Read by Mark Chulsky
Evgeny Chirikov
A novella and three short stories by Evgeny Chirikov, a Russian writer popular before the 1917 revolution. He favored democratic reforms in …
Bucking the Tiger
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Achmed Abdullah
A group of down-and-outers decide on the ultimate gamble: they will bankroll one of themselves, chosen by lot, to live well for a year. Then…
Saint's Progress
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John Galsworthy
Edward Pierson is the widowed vicar of a London church. He has two daughters, Eve and Noel, who is 17. In essence, the novel follows the bat…
If You Touch Them They Vanish
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Gouverneur Morris
"No man who has not endured solitude in long doses knows how vivid, real, and necessary people and things of the imagination may become…