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

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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…

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