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The Dust Flower
Read by Simon Evers
Basil King
Rashleigh Allerton, a wealthy New Yorker, quarrels with his well-to-do fiancée Barbara and impetuously says that he will marry instea…
The Art of Fiction
Read by Julie VW
Henry James
A lecture on the art of fiction, given by the English critic Walter Besant on April 25, 1884, and an answer to the lecture by American write…
John Marchmont's Legacy
Read by Cate Barratt
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Like Wuthering Heights, the center of this story is a dramatic love triangle, the setting is a huge English manor. Olivia Marchmont has alwa…
K.
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
"K" is the initial of the mysterious lodger without a first name who rents a room from Sidney to escape his past. Sidney herself r…
The House in the Mist
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Anna Katharine Green
It was a night to drive any man indoors. Not only was the darkness impenetrable, but the raw mist enveloping hill and valley made the open r…
Petticoat Government, Volume 3
Read by Mark Leder
Frances Milton Trollope
The adventures--in society, in love--of Judith Maitland conclude.
Emily of New Moon
Read by Leanne Fortune
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Emily Starr never knew what it was to be lonely -- until her beloved father died. Now Emily's an orphan, and her mother's snobbish relatives…
Lost Man's Lane
Read by Mary Bard
Anna Katharine Green
After several people apparently vanish into thin air while walking along the same country road, New York detective Mr Gryce calls on the ski…
Scarlet Sister Mary
Read by Jim Locke
Julia Peterkin
How did 1929 Pulitzer winner and white plantation mistress Julia Peterkin become a favorite of the Harlem Renaissance? According to W.E.B. D…
Lady Connie
Read by Simon Evers
Mary Augusta Ward
Constance Bledlow is a beautiful monied 20 year old with the world at her feet. She arrives in Oxford to spend a few months with her impover…
Eliza
Read by Nigel Boydell
Barry Pain
A gentle, yet deliciously humourous series of brief anecdotes, that follow the mundane, though surprisingly hazard strewn lives of our rathe…
Mag and Margaret: A Story for Girls
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Pansy
Little Mag Jessup is an orphan girl who works hard as a servant in Mrs. Perkins' boarding house to earn her keep. She has no education, exce…
Stories by English Authors: London
Read by Kirsten Wever
F. Anstey, J. M. Barrie, Marie Corelli, Beatrice Harraden, Arthur Morrison, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch and Israel Zangwill
This book collects seven short stories by some of England's best turn-of-the-(last)-century's writers. The collection begins with the humor …
The Mystery at Number Six
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Augusta Huiell Seaman
A mysterious girl, a mysterious pool, and a mysterious businessman combine to send two Florida teens to adventureland in this pre-Nancy Drew…
The Rain-Girl
Read by Anna Simon
Herbert George Jenkins
Richard Beresford has recently returned from the WW-I trenches. He feels he can't go back to his old life in the Foreign Office. Instead, he…
The Mystery of Mary
Read by Lee Ann Howlett
Grace Livingston Hill
Handsome young Tryon Dunham has just returned home on the train from a business trip one evening when he's accosted by a beautiful young wom…
Ayala's Angel
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Anthony Trollope
Lucy and Ayala Dormer are left penniless by the death of their parents. Ayala is taken in by their rich aunt Lady Tringle and Lucy by their …
Crucial Instances
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Edith Wharton
This is Edith Wharton's second published collection of short stories (1901). One of these seven stories, "Copy: A Dialogue," is w…
Sacred and Profane Love
Read by Simon Evers
Arnold Bennett
Carlotta Peel is an unusual young woman – clever, self-opinionated, a brilliant author and yearning to love and be loved but also to serve h…
Villette (version 2 Dramatic Reading)
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Charlotte Brontë
After an unspecified family disaster, protagonist Lucy Snowe travels to the fictional city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school where…