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CBS Radio Workshop

by CBS Radio Workshop 4.7
CBS Radio Workshop was a revival of the Columbia Workshop of the late thirties. All 86 episodes survive today. The series aired from January…

Simon the Jester

by William John Locke Read by Simon Evers 4.7
Simon de Gex, a wealthy and successful MP, is diagnosed with a terminal illness and decides to use his last few months using his wealth and …

Wives and Daughters

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
If you like Jane Austen, you will probably like this book!Mrs. Gaskell, as she was often referred to, is considered one of the greatest Brit…

Cloak and Dagger

by Corey Ford and Alastair MacBain 4.5
Cloak and Dagger opened over the NBC network on May 7, 1950, and had a short run through the summer on Sundays, changing to Fridays after it…

Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy Read by MaryAnn 4.7
Two love stories are set against the backdrop of high society in Tsarist Russia. Anna awakes from a loveless marriage to find herself drawn …

The Importance of Being Earnest

by Oscar Wilde Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest is subtitled "A Trivial Comedy for Serious People," and has proved immensely popular…

The Moving Picture Girls

by Laura Lee Hope Read by Cori Samuel 4.5
Ruth and Alice DeVere and their father Hosmer struggle to make ends meet in New York City - times are hard, even for a talented actor like M…

The Blithedale Romance

by Nathaniel Hawthorne Read by Jacquerie 4.4
The Blithedale Romance is the story of four principal characters who work with -- and sometimes against -- each other on Blithedale, a commu…

Scenes of Clerical Life

by George Eliot Read by Bruce Pirie 4.8
Scenes of Clerical Life, which appeared in book form in 1858 (after serial publication in the previous year), was the first published fictio…

Ethan Frome

by Edith Wharton Read by Bob Neufeld 4.7
Ethan Frome is a poignant exploration of unfulfilled dreams and the harsh realities of life in a small New England town. Set in the fictiona…

The Black Museum

by Harry Alan Towers Read by Orson Welles 4.7
The Black Museum, opening in 1875, is the oldest museum in the world dedicated to recording crime. Coined in 1877 by a reporter, the name &q…

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children's novel is about orphaned Mary Lennox, who is sent to live with her uncle at Misslethwaite Manor …

This Side of Paradise

by F. Scott Fitzgerald Read by Mark F. Smith 4.2
Amory Blaine grew up in a wealthy family and was given an Ivy League education. Without a need to learn a profession, he chiefly dabbled in …

Bartleby, the Scrivener

by Herman Melville Read by Bob Neufeld 4.6
Bartleby, the Scrivener is a thought-provoking novella that explores the complexities of human behavior and the nature of work through the e…

Ruth

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Read by Cynthia Lyons (1946-2011) 4.4
The book is a social novel, dealing with Victorian views about sin and illegitimacy. It is a surprisingly compassionate portrayal of a 'fall…

The Last Chronicle of Barset

by Anthony Trollope Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Both Trollope and some of his later critics have considered The Last Chronicle to be his greatest novel. Many of its characters are familiar…

Far From The Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy Read by Tadhg 4.8
Far From The Madding Crowd is Hardy's fourth novel. It centres on the lives of five characters: Gabriel Oak, Bathsheba Everdene, Mr Boldwood…

Pygmalion

by George Bernard Shaw Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Pygmalion (1913) is a play by George Bernard Shaw based on the Greek myth of the same name. It tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor…

The White Linen Nurse

by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Read by MaryAnn 4.4
Throughout three years of school, Rae Malgregor had been perfectly pliant, perfectly compliant to all the demands placed on her. But now, o…

Notwithstanding

by Mary Cholmondeley Read by Simon Evers 4.7
The book starts with Annette Georges choosing between two fates: suicide and running away with a disreputable stranger. She is rescued by a …

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