Published 1900 onward
Daddy-Long-Legs Version 2
Read by Jo Karabasz
Jean Webster
Jerusha Abbott was brought up at the John Grier Home, an old-fashioned orphanage. The children were wholly dependent on charity and had to w…
The Ghost Girl
Read by Kate Follis
Henry Kitchell Webster
Henry Kitchell Webster is an American author best know for his detective novels. The Ghost Girl opens with a murder mystery. A young woman's…
A Thin Ghost And Others
Read by David Wales
M. R. James
Five ghost stories, published in 1920, by the early twentieth century master of ghostery. - Summary by david wales
The Flood
Read by R. S. Steinberg
Émile Zola
A well-to-do French farm family is destroyed by a flood. The story, thrilling to the very end, is told from the point of view of the family…
Three Stories & Ten Poems
Read by KevinS
Ernest Hemingway
The author arranged for this collection of three short stories and ten poems to be printed in a small run of 300 copies in Dijon (France.) T…
The Financier
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Theodore Dreiser
In Philadelphia, Frank Cowperwood, whose father is a banker, makes his first money by buying cheap soaps on the market and selling it back w…
Mrs. Dalloway (Version 2)
Read by Hannah Dormor
Virginia Woolf
Clarissa Dalloway is having a party. Join her and a web of connections in exploring London, their memories and their innermost thoughts and …
El País del Placer
Read by Victor Villarraza
Edith Wharton
El país del placer llamada así por la primera traducción en español de esta novela de Edith Wharton publicada po…
The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel
Read by David Wales
A. E. W. Mason
Inspector Hanaud is a member of the French Sûreté. He is said to have been the model for Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, as w…
Blazed Trail Stories and Stories Of The Wild Life
Read by David Wales
Stewart Edward White
Thirteen short stories by a popular writer of the early 20th century (not to be confused with an earlier book Blazed Trail). White's books …
A Girl of the Limberlost (version 2)
Read by Patience Charles
Gene Stratton-Porter
Set in the Limberlost swamp of Indiana, A Girl of the Limberlost follows Elnora Comstock through struggles and triumphs as she seeks educati…
Adrift in New York
Read by Bridget Gaige
Horatio Alger, Jr.
John Linden is a very wealthy man. The people who should inherit his property are his nephew, Curtis Waring, his niece Florence Linden, and …
Five Tales
Read by David Wales
John Galsworthy
This 1918 book consists of five short stories or novelettes by Galsworthy. They are The First and Last (1914), A Stoic, The Apple Tree (1916…
Parnassus on Wheels
Read by Dawn Larsen
Christopher Morley
Parnassus on Wheels is about a fictional traveling book-selling business. The original owner of the business, Roger Mifflin, sells it to 39-…
Auf der Galerie
Read by Thorsten Herbold
Franz Kafka
In der Erzählung “Auf der Galerie” beschreibt Franz Kafka in zwei komplett gegensätzlichen Perspektiven die Darbietung einer K&uum…
The Spider
Read by Don W. Jenkins
Fergus Hume
Arthur Vernon, member of the Athenian club and member of “society,” has a secret. His father has died and left him destitute, so he has begu…
The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
Marcus Ordeyne is a middle aged bachelor schoolmaster who has inherited both money and a title and thus is able to lead a life of leisure. O…
Royal Highness
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Thomas Mann
Royal Highness is the story of Prince Klaus Heinrich, a member of a struggling German duchy and an exotic American heiress who comes to live…
Die Stadt ohne Juden
Read by Availle
Hugo Bettauer
In Wien hat man das Problem des Antisemitismus gelöst: Die Juden haben bis zum Ende des Jahres Zeit, Österreich zu verlassen. Die …
The de Bercy Affair
Read by Lee Smalley
Louis Tracy
A beautiful French actress with concealed origins and a clandestine involvement with a group of anarchists is brutally murdered in London. C…