General Fiction
Short Stories (Household Words 1850-53)
Read by Phil Benson
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell was a regular contributor to Charles Dickens's weekly magazine, Household Words, from 1850 through to 1853 In addition to …
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3: The Viaticum and Other Stories
Read by James K. White
Guy de Maupassant
This is volume is a collection of 50 of de Maupassant's short stories. Summary by James K. White.
The Wreck of the Golden Mary
Read by James E. Carson
Charles Dickens
A short story of a ship wreck in 1851 trying to round Cape Horn on its way to the California gold fields. Poignant and well written. ( Summa…
Democracy - An American Novel
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry Brooks Adams
Not until after his death in 1918 was it revealed that Henry Adams was the anonymous author of Democracy, which had been published to great …
The Dog Crusoe and His Master
Read by Allyson Hester
R. M. Ballantyne
This is a story of an adventure involving a young man, his dog, and two friends. Together they wander through the Western prairies on a miss…
Mary Cary, Frequently Martha
Read by Jan MacGillivray
Kate Langley Bosher
"My name is Mary Cary. I live in the Yorkburg Female Orphan Asylum. You may think nothing happens in an Orphan Asylum. It does. The orp…
The Outdoor Girls of Deepdale
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Laura Lee Hope
The Outdoor Girls of Deepdale was the first book in a long-running series centering around four girls: Betty Nelson, Mollie Billette, Amy St…
Fables in Slang
Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012)
George Ade
While a columnist for The Chicago Record humorist George Ade penned numerous “fables” which were subsequently collected into books. Fables i…
The Reign of King Edward the Third
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William Shakespeare
The Reign of King Edward the Third is an Elizabethan play printed anonymously in 1596. It has frequently been claimed that it was at least p…
Raggedy Ann Stories (version 3)
Read by Phil Chenevert
Johnny Gruelle
As I write this, I have before me on my desk, propped up against the telephone, an old rag doll. Dear old Raggedy Ann!The same Raggedy Ann w…
The Magnificent Ambersons (Growth Trilogy Vol 2) Version 2
Read by Jeannie
Booth Tarkington
The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington which won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize. It was the second novel in the Growth trilo…
The Headless Horseman - A Strange Tale of Texas
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Thomas Mayne Reid
The horse is perfect in all its parts—a splendid steed, saddled, bridled, and otherwise completely caparisoned. In it there appears nothing …
The Amateur
Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
Richard Harding Davis
On the steamer on his way to London, Austin Ford meets a young woman, who is going to London to find her missing husband. Being a specialist…
Probable Sons
Read by Laura Caldwell
Amy Le Feuvre
Little Milly is left an orphan after the death of her mother and sent to live with her bachelor uncle, who has no use for children, especial…
Is He Popenjoy ?
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Anthony Trollope
Trollope returns in Is He Popenjoy to two of his favorite subjects: property and inheritance. As in "Doctor Thorne," the issues ar…
The Highwayman
Read by James E. Carson
H. C. Bailey
A romance and adventure novel, set in England during the reign of Queen Anne. The book is much unlike the author's later detective short sto…
Historic Adventures: Tales from American History
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Rupert S. Holland
This is a collection of early American stories, interesting read. (Summary by sidhu177)
Helen
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Maria Edgeworth
Maria Edgeworth was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children…
Christopher Quarles: College Professor and Master Detective
Read by Tony Posante
Percy James Brebner
Christopher Quarles is a professor of philosophy and a private consulting detective. Quarles, along with his granddaughter Zena, assists Pol…
Rose O' The River
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Kate Douglas Wiggin
Rose Wiley is a pretty country girl. She's engaged to Stephen Waterman, a country boy. She is quite content, until Claude Merril, a man from…