General Fiction

Literary Lapses

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Stephen Leacock



Short sketches relating the humourous side of life in 1910. "Professor Leacock has made more people laugh with the written word than an…

L' Élève Gilles

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André Lafon



Texte de 1912, Grand prix de littérature de l’Académie française en 1912. Un jeune garçon et sa vie dans un coll…

Walthers äfventyr

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Zacharias Topelius



"Walthers äfventyr" (The adventures of Walther) is a series of childrens' stories about Walther, a rather naughty six-year ol…

An American Robinson Crusoe

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Samuel B. Allison



An American Robinson Crusoe is a short version of the original story. An indolent, rebellious teen goes on a marine voyage against his paren…

The Junior Classics Volume 7: Stories of Courage and Heroism

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William Patten, Variousandwilliam Patten and Various And William Patten



The stories in this volume are true stories, and have been arranged in chronological order, an arrangement that will aid the reader to remem…

The Morgesons

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Elizabeth Stoddard



Stoddard’s novel traces the education and development of a young female in American middle-class society. The protagonist, Cassandra Morgeso…

The Legacy of Cain

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Wilkie Collins



Eunice and Helena are sisters brought up by their father, the Reverend Abel Gracedieu. They grow up quietly and happily, until some dark sec…

Echoes of Love’s House

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William Morris



LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Echoes of Love’s House by William Morris. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 9th,…

Gone to Earth

Read by Rachel Lintern


Mary Webb



"Gone to Earth" is the cry of fox hunters as the fox takes to its den and they lose the chase. Here, Mary Webb tells the story of …

Bertram Cope's Year

Read by James K. White


Henry Blake Fuller



This novel was perhaps the most daring and affirmative LGBT literature of the first two decades of the 20th century in America. In this stor…

Philosophy 4: A Story of Harvard University

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Owen Wister



Owen Wister's wry humor enlivens this comedic story of three sophomores during exam week at Harvard. (Summary by David Wales)

The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 02

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Variousandmarshall Pinckney Wilder, H. G. Wells and Various And Marshall Pinckney Wilder



The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the second volume, 44 short stories and poems have been gathered from 31 author…

Grandma Janice's Poems and Stories

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Various



The poems and stories in this collection were selected with the reader’s grandchildren in mind. “The Raggedy Man” and “Little Orphant Annie,…

The Story of H.M.S. Pinafore

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W. S. Gilbert



H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor, is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbe…

The Altar of the Dead

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Henry James



A fable of literally life and death significance, the story explores how the protagonist tries to keep the remembrance of his dead friends, …

The House with the Green Shutters

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George Douglas Brown



The House with the Green Shutters is a novel by the Scottish writer George Douglas Brown, first published in 1901 by John MacQueen. Set in m…

If Winter Comes

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A. S. M. Hutchinson



If Winter Comes, was in many aspects ahead of its time, dealing with an unhappy marriage, eventual divorce, and an unwed mother who commits …

The Death of the Lion

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Henry James



This short novel is a black comedy about fame, manipulation, pretension, and surviving it all. The narrator, a reprehensible and seedy journ…

J. Poindexter, Colored

Read by Grant Hurlock


Irvin S. Cobb



This comic novel relates the first-person adventures in New York City of Jefferson Poindexter, personal assistant to Cobb's famous Judge Pri…

The Red Room

Read by William Peck


August Strindberg



A young idealistic civil servant, Arvid Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy to become a journalist and author. As he explores various s…

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