Literary Fiction
The Adventure of the Broad Arrow: An Australian Romance
Read by Laurie Banza
Morley Roberts
When a few men decide to go for looking for gold in the outback of Australia, days of extreme heat with no water and no rain in sight, make …
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 17
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Various
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Mr. Moffatt
Read by Phil Benson
Chester Francis Cobb
Mr. Moffatt owns a chemist's business in suburban Sydney, Australia, where he lives with his wife, Florence, and adult daughter, Naomi. The …
Parodies on Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade
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Walter Hamilton
This extract, taken from Parodies of the works of English and American Authors, vol 1, of parodies of Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade…
The Murder of Delicia
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Marie Corelli
The following slight and unelaborated sketch of a very commonplace and everyday tragedy will, I am aware, meet with the unqualified disappro…
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 01
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Lawrence Labree and Seba Smith
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith…
The Pinafore Picture Book: The Story Of H.M.S. Pinafore (Version 2)
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W. S. Gilbert
Pinafore’s sublimely silly story is made even sillier by this (ostensibly for children) 1908 story version of the 1878 Gilbert and Sullivan …
The Later Life
Read by Phil Benson
Louis Couperus
Set in the stifling world of turn of the century Dutch aristocracy, the second volume of the 'Books of the Small Souls' quartet, begins wher…
Lolly Willowes: or, the Loving Huntsman (Version 2)
Read by Shannon Sullivan
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Laura Willowes, forced to move from her family home due to the death of her father, endures her role as Aunt Lolly in her new home with her …
The Quest of the Golden Girl
Read by William Allan Jones
Richard Le Gallienne
The main character fears that he will never get married and performs a long pilgrimage whose goal is the perfect companion, the girl God mea…
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Volume 1
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The novel is in eight books. The eponymous hero undergoes a journey of self-realization. The story centers upon Wilhelm's attempt to escape …
Unveiling a Parallel
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Alice Ilgenfritz Jones
In this work of utopian science fiction from the Victorian era written by Two Women of the West, a moniker for Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and El…
The Fortune of the Rougons, Book One of Rougon-Macquart Cycle (Version 2)
Read by Mark Leder
Émile Zola
The first book in the 20-novel Rougon-Macquart Cycle. A monument of French naturalism. The sprawling tale of a family in Provence, during …
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 15
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Various
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Kopal-Kundala
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Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
A story of love and innocence, by one of India's most loved novelist/ poets of the 20th century, the mentor of Rabindrath Tagore. (Summary b…
The Twilight of the Souls
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Louis Couperus
The third book in Louis Couperus' Books of the Small Souls quartet. The Twilight of the Souls begins some months after the conclusion of The…
The Gardener and The Burden
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Rudyard Kipling
Helen Turrell’s life has been one of respectability and duty, and she adopts and raises her illegitimate nephew upon her scapegrace brother’…
The Unknown Masterpiece
Read by Bruce Pirie
Honoré de Balzac
“The Unknown Masterpiece” (“Le Chef-d’œuvre inconnu”) is a novella by Honoré de Balzac, published with revisions in 1845, after earli…
The Uncalled
Read by Jim Locke
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Orphaned Freddie Brent ends up adopted by an old local Christian lady who knows nothing about raising a child. And matters are worsened by h…
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Ford Madox Ford
This is the last novel in Ford Madox Ford's "Parade's End" tetralogy. Its predecessors "Some Do Not", "No More Para…