Published 1900 onward
The Doctor's Christmas Eve
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James Lane Allen
A gentle reminiscence of a fictional country doctor as the year is drawing to a close. Unlike city doctors, the personal and professional li…
Jacob's Room (version 2)
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Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf’s third novel lacks a conventional narrative style and some say even a plot. It follows Jacob from his childhood, through his…
The Colonel's Dream
Read by James K. White
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
In this novel, Chesnutt described the hopelessness of Reconstruction in a post-Civil War South that was bent on reestablishing the former st…
Miss Philura's Wedding Gown
Read by Anne Fletcher
Florence Morse Kingsley
Follow-up to "The Transfiguration of Miss Philura"....will the conviction of mild-mannered Miss Philura that "Ask and you hav…
Mr. Britling Sees It Through
Read by Peter Eastman
H. G. Wells
"Mr. Britling Sees It Through" is H. G. Wells' attempt to make sense of World War I. It begins with a lighthearted account of an …
The Secret of Father Brown
Read by Kirsten Wever
G. K. Chesterton
This is the fourth collection of mysteries featuring the very smart and even more devout catholic priest, Father Brown. (It follows The Inno…
City of Endless Night
Read by Kate Follis
Milo Hastings
An example of early dystopian science fiction written shortly after World War I, "City of Endless Night" imagines a future with a …
The Pink Shop
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Fergus Hume
The Pink Shop operates outside the limits of the law by a mysterious woman concealed under a black veil. Follow the twists and turns as you …
The Night Club
Read by Lee Smalley
Herbert George Jenkins
This work of fiction by Herbert Jenkins (1876-1923) features one of his best-loved comic characters, the affable Cockney, Joseph Bindle. It …
The Flirt
Read by Lee Smalley
Booth Tarkington
Laura and Cora Madison and their younger brother Hedrick live with their parents in a Midwestern American town that is fairly bursting with …
The Heart of Philura
Read by Anne Fletcher
Florence Morse Kingsley
Once again Mrs Kingsley does not shy away from the highs and lows of life in the quickly changing world of the 1900s…the ageing women workin…
Jaffery
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
The book follows the lives of Hilary, the narrator, and three of his friends whom he met at Cambridge. One soon dies - another (Adrian) writ…
A Far Country
Read by Kate Follis
Winston Churchill
The book follows the career of Hugh Paret from youth to manhood, and how his profession as a corporation lawyer gradually changes his values…
The Terror: A Mystery
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Arthur Machen
In rural England during the time of war, a rash of unsolved murders spawns conspiracy theories, paranoia, and fear as they search for a cul…
Love in a Mask, or Imprudence and Happiness
Read by Lee Smalley
Honoré de Balzac
Love in a Mask, or Imprudence and Happiness, is an entertaining short novel by Honoré de Balzac, unpublished in his lifetime. Beginni…
Neighbors
Read by Anne Fletcher
Florence Morse Kingsley
The final story featuring the inhabitants of the growing township of Innisfield: Mrs Philura Pettibone’s story reaches its long-awaited conc…
Pierre & Jean
Read by Lee Smalley
Guy de Maupassant
This short novel’s titular characters are brothers. An old family friend dies, leaving without explanation his entire fortune to Jean, the y…
The Green Overcoat
Read by Russ Hobbs
Hilaire Belloc
This rollicking novel captures the minor moral dilemma of thin, shy, nervous, Professor Higginson, psychologist, as he comes under the eye o…
Betty Baird's Ventures
Read by Holly Jenson
Anna Hamlin Weikel
Betty has graduated from the Pines and is now with her parents at their new home on Long Island. When Betty finds out that her father is hav…
T. Tembarom (Version 2)
Read by Keith Salis
Frances Hodgson Burnett
T. Tembarom is a young man who grew up in New York City, scraping his way by blacking shoes and selling newspapers. On day, he gets notified…