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The Benefactress
Read by Helen Taylor
Elizabeth Von Arnim
Anna Estcourt, twenty-five and beautiful, is the penniless ward of her distant brother and his exasperating wife. Turning down all offers of…
Summer (version 2)
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Edith Wharton
Wharton's 1917 novella Summer, like her more famous work Ethan Frome, is set in a very small rural New England town. Charity Royall longs t…
A Voice in the Wilderness
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Grace Livingston Hill
Margaret leaves her family home and security to become a school teacher in the wilds of early Arizona. Accidentally getting off her safe and…
Jacqueline of Golden River
Read by Roger Melin
Victor Rousseau
Jacqueline seems to have contracted a touch of amnesia, as she is found in an apartment with a dead man, and with a weapon in her hand. But …
Little Prudy
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Rebecca Sophia Clarke
I am going to tell you something about a little girl who was always saying and doing funny things, and very often getting into trouble. He…
Sanctuary
Read by Jacquerie
Edith Wharton
Kate Orme, shocked by the discovery of her fiance's complicity in a tragedy, and by society's willingness to overlook such transgressions, n…
Summer
Read by Robin Cotter
Edith Wharton
The story is one of only two novels by Wharton to be set in New England. The novel details the sexual awakening of its protagonist, Charity …
Carmilla (Version 2)
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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Laura grew up on a castle in the Austrian mountains with her father, slightly lonely as there are no potential companions around. Her loneli…
The Blowing Away of Mr. Bushy Tail
Read by Natalie Fortier
Edith B. Davidson
A tale of the adventures and misadventures of Mr. Bushy Tale on his quest to find food for his family to last the winter. - Summary by Nata…
The Patrician
Read by Simon Evers
John Galsworthy
The book revolves around the story of two love affairs. Miltoun (an aspiring politician) proposes to Mrs Audrey Noel, only to find that she …
Die Schwarze Galeere
Read by Felix
Wilhelm Raabe
Im Jahr 1599 sind die Niederlande von den Spaniern besetzt. Die Stadt Antwerpen ist bevölkert von italienischen Söldnern. Doch die…
A Spinner in the Sun (version 2 dramatic reading)
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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…
Cornelli
Read by Jael Baldwin
Johanna Spyri
Cornelli lives in Iller-Stream with her widowed father, who calls on two Ladies of Culture to come spend time with Cornelli during one of hi…
The Crimson Patch
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Augusta Huiell Seaman
A lonely young girl meets another girl in the hotel that she is staying in. The girl seems to want to be friends, but something seems to be …
A Winter of Content
Read by KevinS
Laura Lee Davidson
A charming memoir recounting 10 months spent among the country people of Ontario at the outbreak of the Great War. Resplendent in its descri…
Pimpernel and Rosemary
Read by Holly
Baroness Emma Orczy
A novel in the Scarlet Pimpernel series that features Peter Blakeney, a descendant of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Peter's adventures take him to…