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Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes
Read by Edmund Bloxam
Ella Cheever Thayer
A telegraph operator meets a mysterious stranger 'on the wire'. Throw in the most clumsy gent in literature, a stern matron, an actress with…
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…
The Glimpses of the Moon
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Edith Wharton
"The Glimpses of the Moon" (1922) is about Nick and Susy Lansing, both of whom live a decadent life in Europe by sponging off weal…
The Courtship of Susan Bell
Read by Simon Evers
Anthony Trollope
Susan lives with her overbearing sister in a boarding house in Saratoga Springs run by their timid mother. A knock on the door brings an une…
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…
Somehow Good
Read by Helen Taylor
William Frend De Morgan
A mysterious man arrives in London and, in a freak accident, gets electrocuted on an underground train and loses his memory. A young lady ca…
How to Write a Novel
Read by Brett W. Downey
William James Mcglothlin
I address myself to the man or woman of talent—those people who have writing ability, but who need instruction in the manipulation of charac…
Recompence
Read by Simon Evers
Robert Keable
The book is a sequel to ‘Simon called Peter’ by the same author. It picks up the separate stories of Peter and Julie, at first in South Afri…
Love and Freindship, and Other Early Works
Read by NoelBadrian
Jane Austen
This book draws together some of Jane Austen's earliest literary efforts. It includes "Love & Freindship" and "Lesley Ca…
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…
An International Episode
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Henry James
Two men visiting the US from London meet a pair of charming women who return the visit the following year in London. Romantic intrigues, mis…
The Type-Writer Girl
Read by Grant Hurlock
Grant Allen
(under the pseudonym Olive Pratt Rayner)"There is no more pathetic figure in our world to-day than the common figure of the poor young …
Consequences
Read by Caroline Driggs
E. M. Delafield
Set in late Victorian England, “Consequences” follows the life of Alexandra Clare, a girl born into an upper class Catholic London family. R…
What Maisie Knew
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Henry James
When Beale and Ida Farange are divorced, the court decrees that their only child, the very young Maisie, will shuttle back and forth between…
Die Familie Pfäffling
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Agnes Sapper
Humorvolle Geschichte einer Musikerfamilie mit sieben Kindern zu Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts (Summary by Wolfgang)
The Little Colonel's Holidays
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Annie Fellows Johnston
"What happened after the Little Colonel's house party?" they demand, and they send letters to the Valley by the score, asking &quo…
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Version 2 Dramatic Reading)
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Kate Douglas Wiggin
When ten-year-old Rebecca Randall arrives at her aunts' brick house in Riverboro, she is not exactly welcomed with the open arms one would h…
Jane Austen's Juvenilia
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Jane Austen
Before becoming the author of such classics as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma, Jane Austen experimented with various w…
Aurora Floyd
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Aurora Floyd, the daughter of a rich banker and an actress, could not have had a better start: back from a finishing school in Paris, she is…