General Fiction
King of the Khyber Rifles
Read by Brett W. Downey
Talbot Mundy
Athelstan King is a British Secret Agent stationed in India at the beginning of WWI. He is attached to the Khyber Rifles regiment as a cover…
A Hero of Our Time
Read by Kevin W. Davidson
Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov
A Hero of Our Time is indeed a portrait, but not of one man. It is a portrait built up of all our generation's vices in full bloom. You will…
Selected Essays
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Voltairine De Cleyre
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) was, according to Emma Goldman, "the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced.&…
Bill the Conqueror
Read by Carol Pelster
P. G. Wodehouse
Hailed as one of the funniest writers of the 20th century, P. G. Wodehouse cheerfully radiates humor that is both sophisticated and popular.…
When Patty Went to College
Read by Daryl Wor
Jean Webster
When Patty Went to College is Jean Webster's first novel, published in 1903. It is a humorous look at life in an all-girls college at the tu…
Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship, or, the Naval Terror of the Seas
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Victor Appleton
Tom Swift is an inventor, and these are his adventures. The locale is the little town of Shopton in upstate New York, near Lake Carlopa. Whi…
Mudfog and Other Sketches
Read by Bob Neufeld
Charles Dickens
The Mudfog Papers was written by Victorian era novelist Charles Dickens and published from 1837–38 in the monthly literary serial Bentley's …
The Rose Garden Husband
Read by Mary Herndon Bell
Margaret Widdemer
This novel was written by Margaret Widdemer, who won the Pulitzer prize for her collection of poetry in 1919. Phyllis is a 25-years-old chi…
The Hidden Places
Read by Roger Melin
Bertrand W. Sinclair
Hollister, returning home from the war physically scarred but otherwise healthy and intact, finds life difficult among society, and so choos…
Rappaccini's Daughter
Read by Brett W. Downey
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The story is set in Padua in a distant, but unspecified past. From his quarters, Giovanni, a young student of letters, observes Beatrice, th…
The Life of George Washington in Words of One Syllable
Read by ACBowgus
Josephine Pollard
The Life story of a public man cannot help being to some extent the same thing as a history of the times in which he lived, and to the case …
Candide (version 3)
Read by John Van Stan
Voltaire
Ever since 1759, when Voltaire wrote "Candide" in ridicule of the notion that this is the best of all possible worlds, this world …
The Adventures of Ulysses
Read by Rebecca Dittman
Charles Lamb
Lamb used Homer's Odyssey as the basis for the re-telling of the story of Ulysses's journey back from Troy to his own kingdom of Ithaca. Not…
Vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón
Read by Tux
Vicente Espinel
Las «Relaciones de la vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón» (1618) son una novela picaresca, provista de muchos elementos …
Die Hochzeit des Mönchs
Read by Eva K.
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
Kein geringerer als Dante Alighieri wird hier zum Erzähler. Am Fürstenhof in Verona gibt er seine Geschichte über den Mö…
The Child's Book of American Biography
Read by Laura Victoria
Mary Stoyell Stimpson
In every country there have been certain men and women whose busy lives have made the world better or wiser. The names of such are heard so …
Vera
Read by Greg W.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
Vera (1921) by Elizabeth von Arnim is a black comedy based on her disastrous second marriage to Earl Russell: a mordant analysis of the roma…
Tono-Bungay
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H. G. Wells
Tono-Bungay is a realist semi-autobiographical novel. It is narrated by George Ponderevo, a science student who is drafted in to help with t…
Hilda Lessways
Read by Simon Evers
Arnold Bennett
This book is the second in Bennett’s four books about life in the Five Towns (the real life Potteries in Staffordshire). It tells the story …
Murder in the Sacristy
Read by Maria Therese
Daniel A. Lord
A sacristan is found murdered in the sacristy and the safe robbed of valuable jewels. All clues seem to point to the priest as the murderer.…