Fiction

Lavender and Old Lace

Read by Bridget Gaige


Myrtle Reed


"Jane Hathaway and her niece, Ruth Thorne, have never met. Jane invites Ruth for a visit, but leaves before Ruth comes. Ruth agrees to …

Roman Collar Detective

Read by Maria Therese


Grace Johnson and Grace Johnsonandharold Johnson


A shot penetrates the still night air and one of Galton's leading citizens is a victim of a desperate killer's gun. Murder becomes entangled…

Black Heart and White Heart

Read by Vira Denton


H. Rider Haggard


Black Heart and White Heart, is a story of the courtship, trials and final union of a pair of Zulu lovers in the time of King Cetywayo. (Int…

Ophelia, the Rose of Elsinore

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Mary Cowden Clarke


This story is from Mary Cowden Clarke's multi-volume work The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines, in which she imagined the early lives of c…

The Story of an African Farm

Read by SallyMc


Olive Schreiner


The novel details the lives of three characters, first as children and then as adults - Waldo, Em and Lyndall - who live on a farm in the Ka…

Buttered Side Down

Read by Xe Sands


Edna Ferber


"And so," the story writers used to say, "they lived happily ever after."Um-m-m—maybe. After the glamour had worn off, a…

The Girl with the Golden Eyes

Read by Martin Geeson


Honoré de Balzac


Listeners who like to plunge straight into a story would do well to skip the lengthy preamble. Here, Balzac the virtuoso satirist depicts th…

Nostromo

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Joseph Conrad


Señor Gould is a native Costaguanan of English descent who owns the silver-mining concession in Sulaco. He is tired of the political …

Brood of the Dark Moon

Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)


Charles Willard Diffin


Once more Chet, Walt and Diane are united in a wild ride to the Dark Moon—but this time they go as prisoners of their deadly enemy Schwartzm…

The Calico Cat (version 2)

Read by Mark F. Smith


Charles Miner Thompson


The consequences of letting your irritation get the better of you are humorously portrayed in this story of a self-important man who fires a…

Short Science Fiction Collection 033

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H. G. Wells


Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and sci…

The Great K. & A. Train-Robbery

Read by David Wales


Paul Leicester Ford


In this short novel the narrator is a superintendent on the K. & A. railroad, sometime in the late nineteenth century. The train is robb…

Heimatlos - Geschichten für Kinder und auch für solche, welche die Kinder lieb …

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Johanna Spyri


Ihr erstes Kinderbuch «Heimathlos» enthielt die Erzählungen «Am Silser- und am Gardasee» und «Wie Wiseli’…

Tales from the Archives: Volume One

Read by Philippa Ballantine


Philippa Ballantine


From the author who started it all and New Zealand's original podcast authoress, Tee Morris and Pip Ballantine return to Podiobooks.com with…

Maezli

Read by Daryl Wor


Johanna Spyri


"Mäzli" may be pronounced the most natural and one of the most entertaining of Madame Spyri's creations. The atmosphere is cr…

Thorstein of the Mere: A Saga of the Northmen in Lakeland

Read by Phil Benson


William Gershom Collingwood


A fine adventure set in 10th-century England at a time when everyday life in north was made hazardous by wars and shifting alliances among S…

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