Published 1900 onward
We of the Never-Never
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Jeannie Gunn
We of the Never Never is the second book written by Jeannie Gunn under the name of “Mrs Aeneas Gunn”. It is considered by many as a classic …
Arrowsmith
Read by Lee Smalley
Sinclair Lewis
This 1926 Pulitzer Prize winning novel centers on the title character, a promising medical student who, as a doctor and following several in…
Atlantis
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Gerhart Hauptmann
Frederick von Kammacher is a young doctor in Germany whose wife has gone insane, whose children are in a boarding school, and whose career h…
The Magnificent Adventure
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Emerson Hough
"The Magnificent Adventure" in 1916 was set at the time of the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. This fiction…
A Spinner in the Sun
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Myrtle Reed
Myrtle Reed may always be depended upon to write a story in which poetry, charm, tenderness and humor are combined into a clever and enterta…
The Day of the Beast
Read by Brian Keenan
Zane Grey
Daren Lane, a World War I veteran, returns from the battlefields of Europe to the American Midwest. In Middletown USA, he encounters a postw…
A Woman's War
Read by Lynne T
Warwick Deeping
The fictional small English country town of Roxton boasts two doctors. This tale focuses on the struggles of their wives: Katherine and the …
Tales of the Long Bow
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G. K. Chesterton
These tales concern the doing of things recognized as impossible to do; impossible to believe; and, as the weary reader may well cry aloud, …
The Slayer of Souls
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Robert W. Chambers
Tressa Norne is an American living in China. After her life was spared during a revolution in the area, Tressa finds herself taken as a sla…
Maggie Miller
Read by Celine Major
Mary Jane Holmes
From bestselling and prolific author Mary Jane Holmes, Maggie Miller or Old Hagar's Secret COMES a compelling story of deceit, love, misplac…
The Jack-Knife Man
Read by Roger Melin
Ellis Parker Butler
A lighthearted tale which revolves around old Peter Lane, who lives in a houseboat on the Mississippi River and mostly whiles away his time …
The Thirteen Travelers
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
The year is 1919 and peace has sprung upon the world after the unspeakable carnage of World War I. The place is Hortons, a building of expen…
A Lost Lady
Read by Rob Marland
Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather
The young Niel Herbert idolizes Marian Forrester, the beautiful and charismatic wife of a pioneering railroad magnate. After discovering Mrs…
Breaking Point
Read by Peter Eastman
James Edwin Gunn
Machines are infallible. Humans are not. The crew of The Ambassador knew their ship could not possibly fail, but what of themselves? And how…
The Emperor of Portugallia
Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Lagerlöf was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Pr…
The Mother's Recompense
Read by Anne Fletcher
Edith Wharton
Kate Cephane, now living in self-imposed exile in France, left her three-year-old daughter Anne behind when she fled her impossibly unhappy …
The Getting of Wisdom (Version 2)
Read by Kirsty Leishman
Henry Handel Richardson
Henry Handel Richardson was the pseudonym of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, a writer who was born in 1870 to a reasonably well-off fami…
The Castlecourt Diamond Mystery
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Geraldine Bonner
The famous Castlecourt Diamonds have gone missing and the story surrounding their disappearance is strange indeed. To help sort out th…
The Tale of Triona
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
Olivia is a newly orphaned young woman looking for adventure and excitement. She rents out her house to Blaise Olifant whose friend Alexis T…
Fidelity
Read by Arielle Lipshaw
Susan Glaspell
The small Midwestern town of Freeport was scandalized years ago when Ruth Holland, then a young girl, ran away to the West with a married ma…