Fiction
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
Three Thousand Dollars
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Anna Katharine Green
This short story by Anna Katharine Green revolves around a plot to steal some goods secured safely within an impenetrable vault within the c…
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
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Gaston Leroux
This crime novel was possibly the first to involve a 'locked room mystery', in which an attempted murder takes place, but with no obvious wa…
The Quest of the Silver Fleece
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W. E. B. Du Bois
The Quest of the Silver Fleece is a story of romance, race, economics and politics set around the 1900s. Here, a traditionally educated boy …
Castles in the Air
Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
Baroness Emma Orczy
Baroness Emma Orczy (full name: Emma ("Emmuska") Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orczi) (Septe…
Stepping Heavenward (version 2)
Read by Theresa L. Downey
Elizabeth Prentiss
How dreadfully old I am getting! Sixteen!" Thus begins the lifelong diary of young Katherine as she pours out her hopes, dreams, and sp…
Just So Stories (version 4)
Read by Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019)
Rudyard Kipling
The Just So Stories for Little Children are among Kipling's best known and loved works. This recording aims to be the first complete audio b…
Penrod
Read by Jonathan Burchard
Booth Tarkington
Join Penrod Schofield and his wistful dog Duke, in a hilarious romp through turn of the century Indianapolis, chronicling his life, loves, a…
The Flying Inn
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G. K. Chesterton
The Flying Inn is a novel first published in 1914 by G.K. Chesterton. It is set in a future England where a bizarre form of "Progressiv…
Ethan Frome (version 2)
Read by Bob Neufeld
Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome is a novel published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of St…
The Valley of the Giants
Read by Roger Melin
Peter B. Kyne
The man was John Cardigan; in that lonely, hostile land he was the first pioneer. This is the tale of Cardigan and Cardigan's son, for in hi…
Isobel
Read by Roger Melin
James Oliver Curwood
Action, intrigue, and a touch of romance in the farthest reaches of northern Canada. Sergeant Billy MacVeigh of the Canadian Northwest Mount…
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (version 2)
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Jerome K. Jerome
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Th…