Fiction

Ramona (version 2)

Read by Jacquerie


Helen Hunt Jackson


Set in Old California in the wake of the Mexican-American War, Ramona is two stories at once. It is the story of the love between a part-Nat…

The Figure in the Carpet

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


The story ostensibly concerns a young literary critics who greatly admires the writer Hugh Vereker. A meeting with Vereker, however, shows h…

Members of the Family

Read by David Wales


Owen Wister


Members of the Family is a collection of eight short stories about people in the Wyoming Territory in the late 19th and early 20th centuries…

Clayhanger

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Arnold Bennett


This first of a trilogy of novels is a coming-of-age story set in the Midlands of Victorian England, following Edwin Clayhanger as he leaves…

A Sweet Little Maid

Read by Diana Majlinger


Amy Ella Blanchard


Dimple, the nine-year-old little girl is accustomed to being always the first. She has Bubbles, a little coloured girl as playmate and serva…

Wild Blue Yonder: A Novel of the 1960s

Read by Jack B. Rochester


Jack B. Rochester


Wild Blue Yonder is the coming-of-age story of Nathaniel Hawthorne Flowers, a smart but sheltered boy from suburban Chicago whose beloved fa…

The Lost City

Read by Nathalie J.


Joseph E. Badger and Harry Hazelton


Bruno and Waldo Gillespie are orphaned brothers living with the extremely eccentric Professor Phaeton Featherwit. One day they set off in on…

Reineke Fuchs

Read by redaer


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Reineke Fuchs ist ein Epos in zwölf Gesängen. Goethe gab dem Werk stark spöttische, mitunter boshafte Züge; sein Epos ka…

Les Maîtres sonneurs

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George Sand


Le roman est paru dans Le Constitutionnel en juin et juillet 1853. Il raconte la vie des « cornemuseux » à la fin du XVII…

Better Angel

Read by Greg W.


Richard Meeker


In 1933, Forman Brown wrote, under the pseudonym Richard Meeker, a controversial novel called Better Angel, about a young man coming to term…

Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People

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Charles Dickens


Sketches by Boz is a collection of short pieces published by Charles Dickens in 1836 accompanied by illustrations by George Cruikshank. It c…

Chance

Read by James E. Carson


Joseph Conrad


Apparently a two part story about a Damsel and a Knight, perhaps a damsel who depends upon the kindness of strangers. It was originally enti…

Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School; or, The Parting of the Ways

Read by ashleighjane


Jessie Graham Flower and Josephine Chase


The four series follow Grace Harlowe and her friends through high school, college, abroad during World War I, and on adventures around Ameri…

Penelope's English Experiences

Read by Maria Therese


Kate Douglas Wiggin


Penelope's English Experiences is a fictional travelogue, which documents the experiences of three American ladies on a visit to England. In…

The Octopus

Read by Delmar H Dolbier


Frank Norris


Frank Norris based his 1901 novel The Octopus (A Story of California) on the Mussel Slough Tragedy of 1880, a bloody conflict between ranche…

Stories from Virgil

Read by Bill Boerst


Alfred John Church


Alfred J. Church created 26 stories from the original Greek version of Virgil's Aeneid. He included well-known ones, such as "The Horse…

McTeague

Read by Jeff Robinson


Frank Norris


McTeague is a simple dentist who becomes infatuated with Trina, the cousin of his friend Marcus. Trina then buys a winning lottery ticket wo…

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