General Fiction
Ophelia, the Rose of Elsinore
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Mary Cowden Clarke
This story is from Mary Cowden Clarke's multi-volume work The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines, in which she imagined the early lives of c…
The Tribulations of a Chinaman in China
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Jules Verne
The rich and phlegmatic Kin-Fo loses his fortune and decides to die, but not before experiencing some strong emotions. He asks his friend Wa…
Ein Verbrechen
Read by Friedrich
Maxim Gorky
Nach dem Tode seines Vaters verlässt der einfältige und mittellose Wanja Kusmin sein heimatliches Dorf, um in der Stadt Arbeit zu …
The Good Soldier
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Ford Madox Ford
The Good Soldier (1915) "... is set just before World War I and chronicles the tragedies of the lives of two seemingly perfect couples.…
The Shadow of the Rope
Read by Jacquerie
E. W. Hornung
Rachel Minchin stands in the dock, accused of murdering the dissolute husband she was preparing to leave. The trial is sensational, and publ…
Lavender and Old Lace
Read by Bridget Gaige
Myrtle Reed
"Jane Hathaway and her niece, Ruth Thorne, have never met. Jane invites Ruth for a visit, but leaves before Ruth comes. Ruth agrees to …
The Bells of San Juan
Read by John W. Michaels
Jackson Gregory
Rod Norton is a lawman in a land where bandits and criminals make their own rules. Risking his life for justice and a future with the woman …
The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi)
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Alessandro Manzoni
The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi) presents a kaleidoscope of individual stories, which are all tied together by the story of Lucia and Renzo,…
Roman Collar Detective
Read by Maria Therese
Grace Johnson and Grace Johnsonandharold Johnson
A shot penetrates the still night air and one of Galton's leading citizens is a victim of a desperate killer's gun. Murder becomes entangled…
The Song of the Lark
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Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather
Set in the 1890s in Moonstone, a fictional place supposedly located in Colorado, The Song of the Lark is the self-portrait of an artist in t…
The Story of an African Farm
Read by SallyMc
Olive Schreiner
The novel details the lives of three characters, first as children and then as adults - Waldo, Em and Lyndall - who live on a farm in the Ka…
Black Heart and White Heart
Read by Vira Denton
H. Rider Haggard
Black Heart and White Heart, is a story of the courtship, trials and final union of a pair of Zulu lovers in the time of King Cetywayo. (Int…
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. I
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James Boswell
Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is widely considered to be the greatest English-language biography ever written. It was revolutionary in it…
The Calico Cat (version 2)
Read by Mark F. Smith
Charles Miner Thompson
The consequences of letting your irritation get the better of you are humorously portrayed in this story of a self-important man who fires a…
Mary Louise in the Country
Read by Sibella Denton
L. Frank Baum
The Bluebird Books is a series of novels popular with teenage girls in the 1910s and 1920s. The series was begun by L. Frank Baum using his …
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Read by Tony Oliva
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, by Vicente Blasco Ibañez and translated into English by Charlotte Brewster Jordan, depicts two b…
Just William (version 2)
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Richmal Crompton
Just William is the first book of hilarious short stories about 11-year-old William Brown -- eternally scruffy and frowning. William's famil…
The Permanent Husband
Read by Lee Smalley
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
THE PERMANENT HUSBAND, also published as The Eternal Husband, is a psychological novella by the acclaimed Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky.…
Buttered Side Down
Read by Xe Sands
Edna Ferber
"And so," the story writers used to say, "they lived happily ever after."Um-m-m—maybe. After the glamour had worn off, a…
Main Street
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Sinclair Lewis
Carol Milford is a liberal, free-spirited young woman, reared in the metropolis of Minneapolis. She marries Will Kennicott, a doctor, who is…