Published 1900 onward
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…
If You Touch Them They Vanish
Read by Tom Penn
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…
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 …
Sasha
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Aleksandr Kuprin
Kuprin is well-known to Russian readers and has been described as one of the last exponents of Russian critical realism. He first made a car…
The Old House
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Cecile Tormay and Cécile Tormay
On a snowy winter's evening, Christopher Ulwing returns to his home, known as The New House for the last thirty years. Settled between the …
Amor y pedagogía
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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…
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 …
The Dark Star
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Robert W. Chambers
Ruhannah “Rue” Carew, who dreams of becoming an artist, has grown up listening to her father tell the story of how he came by a wooden box a…
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…
The Enchanted April (Version 3)
Read by TR Love
Elizabeth Von Arnim
Escaping their lives for a month in a castle on the Riviera, four women spend considerable effort suspiciously guarding their solitude, beli…
Der Schrei
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Stanisław Przybyszewski
Der Roman ist eine Erinnerung an die Berliner Bohème-Zeit des Autors. Przybyszewsk erhielt die Anregung zu diesem Werk, als ihm der b…
Saint's Progress
Read by Simon Evers
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…
Caliban by the Yellow Sands
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Percy MacKaye
Caliban, the primitive, savage son of the witch Sycorax and the evil frog-tiger god Setebos, seeks to obtain knowledge and become civilized …
Bread
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Charles G. Norris
Bread by Charles G. Norris reads like a working class Great Gatsby with a tragic female main character. The author is said to have influence…
Fame and Fortune Weekly No. 2: Born to Good Luck; or The Boy Who Succeeded
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Frank Tousey
Dick Armstrong is an enterprising young man who works his way out of a slave-labor situation to become a successful businessman at only age …
Shifting Sands
Read by Roger Melin
Sara Ware Bassett
After days of fog Stanley Heath, a stranger whose power-boat runs aground on the treacherous Cape Cod shoals, stumbles into the Homestead an…
Visha Vahini
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Ramanuja Rao Somaraju
Visha Vahini is a social drama novel which reflects the ‘social relationships’ in southern India in early 1900's. The main character in this…
Nell and Her Grandfather
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William James Mcglothlin
If you have heard of the Dickens novel, The Old Curiosity Shop, and remember Nell Trent, the beautiful and virtuous young girl of "not …
Short Stories from Locomotive Engineers Journal, Volume 52
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Various
These short stories are taken from the Locomotive Engineers Journal, Volume 52 which covers the year, 1918. Don't expect any trains -- these…