Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Marge Askinforit
Read by Nigel Boydell
Barry Pain
A rollicking parody of the Margot Asquith memoirs, in which Pain's character, Marge, beguiles us with the most personal details of her dysfu…
Big Sur
Read by Ben Tucker
Jack Kerouac
This classic of the beatnik era from famous bohemian traveller Jack Kerouac focuses on Jack Dulouz, a thinly veiled Kerouac surrogate, and h…
Life and Adventures of Jack Engle
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Walt Whitman
This story ran as a serial in 1852 in the New York Sunday Dispatch, and for more than 160 years was buried in obscurity, unknown to the worl…
The Purple Land
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William Henry Hudson
In W.H. Hudson’s first novel, an Englishman wandering on horseback across the pampas finds adventure and romance in Uruguay. The full title…
The Adventures of an Ugly Girl
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Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett
“Come, Dora! I shall never be ready, if you don’t make haste. They will be here in ten minutes, and my hair is not half so nice as it ought …
Vaninka
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
The story of Vaninka, generally regarded as the most fictionalized of Dumas’ Celebrated Crimes series, occurs during the short and eccentric…
Within a Budding Grove
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Marcel Proust
"In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower" (bowdlerized by Scottish translator Scott Moncrieff as "Within a Budding Grove"…
Curiosities of Street Literature
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Various
This is a collection of broadsides from London. Broadsides are short, popular publications, a precursor to today's tabloid journalism. The c…
A Woman of Genius
Read by Amy Dunkleberger
Mary Hunter Austin
In this 1912 novel, Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) draws inspiration from her own life to tell the story of a gifted woman caught between he…
Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal
Read by Brendan Stallard
Life in the Grey Nunnery was first published in Boston, in 1857 by Edward P. Hood, who was credited as the book's editor. It is likely that …
The History of Pendennis
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William Makepeace Thackeray
In Pendennis, William Makepeace Thackeray skillfully shows the coming of age of Arthur Pendennis, a young gentleman trying to make his way i…
The Rise of David Levinsky
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Abraham Cahan
Coming to New York from the Russian Empire, Abraham Cahan founded the Jewish Daily Forward to help Yiddish-speaking immigrants adjust to lif…
The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier
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Charles E. Flandrau
A series of stories written by Judge Charles E. Flandrau "at different times during his long residence in the Northwest, which embrace …
The Secret City
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Hugh Walpole
Written in the first person, The Secret City is a novel in three parts of a journey through post World War I Russia and the Revolution, duri…
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
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James Weldon Johnson
The story of a biracial man living in the deep south after the reconstruction era. He is young and talented. Yet, in order for him to avoid …
Silas Strong
Read by Roger Melin
Irving Bacheller
Per the author: "The book has one high ambition. It has tried to tell the sad story of the wilderness itself—to show, from the woodsman…
Shakspere
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John A. Joyce
A fictitious account of a "friend" of William Shakespeare, who accompanies him from his birth to his death and beyond, chronicling…
Sentimental Tommy
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J. M. Barrie
"J. M. Barrie is most noted for being the author of Peter Pan, the beloved book about a child who does not want to grow up. The two Tom…
Susan
Read by Celine Major
Ernest Oldmeadow
Susan is a perfect gem of a maid until suddenly she begins to mess things ups and is so distracted that her mistress Gertrude is determined …
The Late Mattia Pascal
Read by Peter Tucker
Luigi Pirandello
Mattia Pascal grew up in a small Italian town not dissimilar to that of the author's upbringing. Pascal leads a somewhat feckless boyhood, a…