Published 1900 onward

A Lost Lady

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Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather


The young Niel Herbert idolizes Marian Forrester, the beautiful and charismatic wife of a pioneering railroad magnate. After discovering Mrs…

The Emperor of Portugallia

Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)


Selma Lagerlöf


Selma Lagerlöf was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Pr…

Memorias de un vagón de ferrocarril

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Eduardo Zamacois y Quintana and Eduardo Zamacois Y Quintana


Este vagón personificado nos cuenta en primera persona su vida y las historias de los pasajeros aventureros que montan en él. …

The Getting of Wisdom (Version 2)

Read by Kirsty Leishman


Henry Handel Richardson


Henry Handel Richardson was the pseudonym of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, a writer who was born in 1870 to a reasonably well-off fami…

The Castlecourt Diamond Mystery

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Geraldine Bonner


The famous Castlecourt Diamonds have gone missing and the story surrounding their disappearance is strange indeed.  To help sort out th…

Fidelity

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Susan Glaspell


The small Midwestern town of Freeport was scandalized years ago when Ruth Holland, then a young girl, ran away to the West with a married ma…

Liliecrona's Home

Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)


Selma Lagerlöf


Liliecrona's Home was published in Sweden 1911, translated into English by Anna Harwell and published in London in 1913. The story is set in…

Thurley Ruxton

Read by Paul Hansen


Philip Verrill Mighels


This is a rags to riches romance about an exceedingly beautiful, poor, young girl (Thurley Ruxton) who is mentored by one of New York’s elit…

The Mother's Recompense

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Edith Wharton


Kate Cephane, now living in self-imposed exile in France, left her three-year-old daughter Anne behind when she fled her impossibly unhappy …

The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories

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Charles Weathers Bump


A collection of offbeat stories. Some are a bit out of the ordinary as suggested by the title story about a freshwater mermaid; some are not…

The Tale of Triona

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William John Locke


Olivia is a newly orphaned young woman looking for adventure and excitement. She rents out her house to Blaise Olifant whose friend Alexis T…

The Third Circle

Read by David Wales


Frank Norris


Sixteen short stories by the American novelist Benjamin Frank Norris Jr (1870-1902) who wrote predominantly in the naturalist genre. He liv…

Souls for Sale

Read by Deanna Bovee


Rupert Hughes


Perhaps the most commercially successful Hollywood novel of the 1920s, Rupert Hughes' Souls for Sale is a direct response to contemporaneous…

The Position of Peggy Harper

Read by Anna Simon


Leonard Merrick


Novel set in the shabby world of British (third-rate) theaters circa 1900. Christopher Tatham tries to survive by going from bit part to bit…

Maria Chapdelaine (version 2)

Read by Bruce Pirie


Louis Hémon


The novel Maria Chapdelaine portrays life in rural Quebec at the beginning of the 20th century. Published first in French in 1913, it is a f…

The Old Ladies

Read by David Wales


Hugh Walpole


“Quite a number of years ago there was an old rickety building on the rock above Seatown in Polchester, and it was one of a number in an old…

1916: First Chapters Collection

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Various


These are first chapters to books first published in 1916. Readers, following is a tentative list culled from Wikipedia's article on the yea…

The Regeneration of Lord Ernie

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Algernon Blackwood


"The Regeneration of Lord Ernie is a story about a young man with no passion for life, he was very capable and the heir to a large fami…

Sisters

Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)


Ada Cambridge


Ada Cambridge (November 21, 1844 - July 19, 1926), later known as Ada Cross, was an English born Australian writer. While she gained recogni…

Just As I Am

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon


The murder has finally been solved. After 20 years, Humphrey Vargas came with his dog, seemingly from no where, and informed the magistrate …

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