Fiction
The Life, Adventures & Piracies of Captain Singleton
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Daniel Defoe
The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton is a "bipartite adventure story whose first half covers a traversal…
The Ghost Ship
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John C. Hutcheson
This book intentionally veers in and out of the supernatural, as the title implies. The officers get more and more bewildered as they work o…
Best Russian Short Stories
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Varioustranslated Bythomas Seltzer and Varioustranslated By Thomas Seltzer
In this collection of Russian stories, editor and compiler Thomas Seltzer selects from a range of the best examples of 19th and early 20th c…
The Lost Princess
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George MacDonald
Also known as "A Double Story" or "The Wise Woman."The story of two very spoiled girls, a princess and a peasant, who ar…
Cross Currents
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Eleanor H. Porter
Cross Currents: The Story of Margaret, to give it its full title, is delightful story about a little girl’s resilience and a mother’s unwave…
The Jacket
Read by Barry Eads
Jack London
A framing story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin State Priso…
Prester John
Read by Grant Hurlock
John Buchan
This classic adventure novel by the author of Greenmantle and The Thirty-Nine Steps relates the first-person exploits of young David Crawfur…
The Golden Bowl
Read by Lee Ann Howlett
Henry James
The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some cri…
Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung
Read by Mark F. Smith
Victor Appleton
The US Government is very smartly letting Tom Swift Jr. handle the recovery of its probe to Jupiter. But a mystery missile suddenly intercep…
The Wind in the Willows (Version 4)
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Kenneth Grahame
Kenneth Grahame wrote a classic children’s tale in 1908 - he penned The Wind in the Willows. He wrote of the English countryside and the bea…
Out of Time's Abyss (version 2)
Read by Lucy Lo Faro
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Out of Time’s Abyss is an Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel, the third of his Caspak trilogy. The sequence was first published in B…
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (abridged, version 2)
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Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dod…
Off on a Comet
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Jules Verne
The story starts with a comet that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. Some forty people of various natio…
Round the Sofa
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Round the Sofa (1859), is a book of stories by the lady that Charles Dickens called his “dear Scheherazade” due to her skill as a story tell…
My Lady Ludlow
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
This novella by the acclaimed Elizabeth Gaskell follows the reminiscences and life of aristocratic Lady Ludlow, told through the eyes of one…
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
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Robert Tressell
Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell's cast of hypocritical Christians, ex…
Jimbo
Read by Adrian Praetzellis
Algernon Blackwood
Fantasy novel about the mystical adventures of a lonely English boy, Jimbo. It’s really quite beautiful and can be enjoyed by both older kid…
The Ruby and the Caldron
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Anna Katharine Green
A valuable ruby is lost during a disturbance in the snow before a ball at The Evergreens. A detective is called for right away to recover it…
The Basket of Flowers
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Christoph Von Schmid
James is the king's gardener and he deeply enjoys caring for and cultivating flowers. He teaches his daughter Mary many principles of godlin…
Mag and Margaret: A Story for Girls
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Pansy
Little Mag Jessup is an orphan girl who works hard as a servant in Mrs. Perkins' boarding house to earn her keep. She has no education, exce…