General Fiction
Miss Ashton's New Pupil
Read by Abigail Rasmussen
Sarah Stuart Robbins
Marion Park, the daughter of missionaries, is sent to Miss Ashton's boarding school. There she meets with many young girls and together they…
Victory: An Island Tale
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Joseph Conrad
Recollections of the life of Axel Heyst, one-time manager of the liquidated Tropical Belt Coal Company in a fictitious island in the Pacific…
English Literature for Boys and Girls
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Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
"Has there ever been a time when no stories were told? Has there ever been a people who did not care to listen? I think not."Thus …
The Snow-Burner
Read by Roger Melin
Henry Oyen
The Snow-Burner is what the Native Americans called Reivers, and it was a rough and tumble life in the land where Reivers chose to live up t…
The Baby's Songbook
Read by Carol Stripling
Walter Crane
This is a collection of 14 songs chosen from Walter Crane's "The Baby's Opera" and "The Baby's Bouquet" containing class…
The Longest Journey
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E. M. Forster
Frederick Elliot is a student at early 20th century Cambridge, a university that seems like paradise to him, amongst bright if cynical compa…
Helping Himself, or Grant Thornton's Ambition
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Horatio Alger, Jr.
Helping Himself, or Grant Thornton's Ambition deals with the grit and determination of Grant, a 15 year old farmer's boy whose father is dea…
The New Magdalen
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Wilkie Collins
Mercy Merrick is living a difficult life on the streets, but when she meets the young and charismatic clergyman Julian Gray, she desires to …
Lady Baltimore
Read by Lois Hill
Owen Wister
Augustus visits King's Port, South Carolina, at the request of his Aunt Carola, and at her expense. She wants him to research genealogies an…
Folk Tales Every Child Should Know
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Hamilton Wright Mabie
We have always loved stories. people have always entertained each other by telling tales around the campfire; traveling storytellers were hu…
Florence Nightingale the Angel of the Crimea
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Laura E. Richards and Laura E. Howe Richards
One evening, some time after the great Crimean War of 1854-55, a company of military and naval officers met at dinner in London. They were t…
In the Cage
Read by Lee Ann Howlett
Henry James
In the Cage is a novella by Henry James, first published as a book in 1898. This long story centers on an unnamed London telegraphist. She d…
Four American Indians: King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola
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Edson L. Whitney
Four American Indians by Edson L. Whitney and Frances M. Perry, gives a short history of King Philip, Sachem of the Wampanoags; Pontiac, an …
Trilby
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George Du Maurier
Trilby, published in 1894, fits into the Gothic horror genre which was undergoing a revival during the Fin de siècle and is one of th…
The Spoilers
Read by Tom Weiss
Rex Beach
Rex Beach was born in Atwood, Michigan to a prominent family and pursued a career as a lawyer before being drawn to Alaska at the time of th…
Queechy
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Susan Warner
Fleda Ringan is an 11 year old orphan who lives with her grandfather in Queechy, Vermont. After a tragic incident, Fleda has to live with he…
Dot and Tot of Merryland
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L. Frank Baum
Dot and Tot of Merryland is a 1901 novel by L. Frank Baum. After Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, he wrote this story about the advent…
The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories
Read by David Wales
Owen Wister
This is the fifth published book of Owen Wister, author of the archetypical Western novel, The Virginian. Published in 1900, it comprises ei…
The Pupil
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
Pemberton, a young American with an Oxford education and out of money, takes a job tutoring Morgan Moreen, the 12-year old son of an America…
Flowing Gold
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Rex Beach
Unfairly given a dishonorable discharge from the army, Calvin Gray goes to Dallas, where he manages to win the trust of a jeweler and is abl…