Fiction
The Quest of the Sacred Slipper
Read by Elaine Twiddle
Sax Rohmer
Cavanagh becomes involved in the adventurous search for a precious relic in the mysterious East. (Introduction by Laineyben)
Looking Backward: 2000-1887
Read by Anna Simon
Edward Bellamy
Looking Backward: 2000-1887 is a utopian novel by Edward Bellamy, first published in 1888. It was the third largest bestseller of its time, …
The World Set Free (version 2)
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H. G. Wells
Radioactive decay is a major theme in the novel The World Set Free, published in 1914. Wells explores what might happen if the rate of decay…
The Man Whom the Trees Loved
Read by Amy Gramour
Algernon Blackwood
The story of a man’s deep connection with nature and his wife’s fear of it. –Summary by Amy Larch Gramour
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 Four Feathers
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A. E. W. Mason
The Four Feathers is a 1902 adventure novel by British writer A.E.W. Mason that has inspired many films of the same title.The novel tells th…
The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight
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Elizabeth Von Arnim
The Princess Priscilla of Lothen Kunitz finds court life stifling and runs away to England with the elderly court librarian. Her intention i…
Kipps
Read by Anthony Ogus
H. G. Wells
Arthur Kipps, an orphaned draper’s assistant of humble means, unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money and that is when all his troubles b…
Personality Plus
Read by Phil Chenevert
Edna Ferber
Personality Plus is an early novel by American author Edna Ferber. Originally published in 1914, Personality Plus is the second of three vol…
The Harbor of Doubt
Read by Roger Melin
Frank Williams
Young Code Schofield had lost his schooner May Schofield in an Atlantic gale a few months ago, and now the townspeople on the small island o…
The New Swiss Family Robinson
Read by David Wales
Owen Wister
A parody of its famous predecessor, this short piece was written by Owen Wister for the Harvard Lampoon (Summary by David Wales)
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 01
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Various and Edmondo De Amicis
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Lin McLean
Read by David Wales
Owen Wister
Lin McLean is an unaffected, attractive young cowboy in the Wyoming territory before statehood. This book is various stories in his life. (S…
The Secret Sharer
Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012)
Joseph Conrad
A young untested ship captain finds a man named Leggatt clinging to the side of his ship. The Captain makes the unusual decision to hide Leg…
Uncle Wiggily and Old Mother Hubbard
Read by Mark F. Smith
Howard R. Garis
Uncle Wiggily Longears, an old bunny gentleman now stricken with rheumatism and getting around with a cane, still is quite active. In these …
New Treasure Seekers
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E. Nesbit
Oswald, Dora, Dicky, Alice, H.O, and Noel fill their free time with entertainments that don't always turn out as they plan. But whether tell…
The Bronze Hand
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Anna Katharine Green
A political society secretly operates in Baltimore. When he tries to help his beautiful neighbor Miss Calhoun recover a stolen ring which mi…
A House-Boat on the Styx
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John Kendrick Bangs
The premise of the book is that everyone who has ever died (up until the time in which the book is set, which seems to be about the time of …
Elsie's Womanhood
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Martha Finley
The fourth book in the Elsie Dinsmore series, Elsie grows into a young woman. She marries her father's old friend, Edward Travilla, and toge…
The Stolen White Elephant (Version 2)
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
"The Stolen White Elephant" was written by Mark Twain and published in 1882. In it, an Indian elephant, en route from India to Bri…