Published 1900 onward
Echoes of the War
Read by James E. Carson
J. M. Barrie
Short stories with dramatic parts about civilian life in London during the First World War. Some humorous moments. By the author of "Pe…
Peggy Raymond's School Days (or Old Girls And New)
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Harriet Lummis Smith
Published in 1916, this third installment with The Friendly Terrace girls places them in The Girl’s High School, with an array of new charac…
Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness!
Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
Selma Lagerlöf
“Thy Soul shall bear Witness” (Körkarlen) by the Swedish Nobel Laureate Selma Lagerlöf is a kind of spooky Novel. It was first pub…
A Cathedral Courtship
Read by Ric F
Kate Douglas Wiggin
An romantic comedy. A pretty young American girls tours English Cathedrals, with her very blue-blooded Aunt. Then boy meets girl. Boy chases…
Sleeping Fires
Read by Sharon Kilmer
Gertrude Atherton
The story of a love so strong that neither the rigid rules of Society in California in the 1800s nor the very bowels of hell could keep a yo…
The Mine with the Iron Door
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Harold Bell Wright
Of all the stirring tales of this picturesque region of the Santa Catalinas, of all the romantic legends and traditions that have come down …
The Home-Maker
Read by Maria Kasper
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The Knapp family seems as though they ought to be happy, yet hidden frustrations are tearing them apart under the surface. As the family bre…
The Friendly Terrace Quartette (or Peggy Raymond At The Poplars)
Read by Daryl Wor
Harriet Lummis Smith
The Friendly Terrace Quartette (or Peggy Raymond At The Poplars) published in 1920, finds Peggy and her friends preparing for The Great War.…
The Lucky Piece: A Story of the North Woods
Read by Roger Melin
Albert Bigelow Paine
While riding a stage back to the city late in the summer, a youngster had no money to spend, and so gives his lucky piece as payment to a yo…
My Brilliant Career
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Miles Franklin
Sybella: "There is no plot in this story, because there has been none in my life or in any other life which has come under my notice. I…
Christmas Eve At Swamp's End
Read by David Wales
Norman Duncan
Four selected chapters from The Measure Of A Man; A Tale of the Big Woods, by Norman Duncan. What could be more Christmasy than: Babies, esp…
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes": the illuminating diary of a professional lady
Read by Jenn Broda
Anita Loos
In this comic novel written by American author Anita Loos, we follow the adventures of the fictional character Lorelei Lee who is a young bl…
Freckles (Version 2)
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Gene Stratton-Porter
Freckles is a young man who has been raised since infancy in a Chicago orphanage. His one dream is to find a job, a place to belong and peop…
The Mirror Of Kong Ho
Read by David Wales
Ernest Bramah
This 1905 tongue-in-cheek book is ostensibly the letters of a dutiful son to his Chinese father describing his encounter with and experience…
William, An Englishman
Read by Expatriate
Cicely Hamilton
William – an Englishman is a 1919 novel by Cicely Hamilton. The novel explores the effect of the First World War on a married couple during …
The Power of a Lie
Read by Lee Smalley
Johan Bojer
Norby is requested to guarantee a bank loan for Wangen and he obliges, signing the loan document in the presence of a witness. Some time lat…
We of the Never-Never
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Jeannie Gunn
We of the Never Never is the second book written by Jeannie Gunn under the name of “Mrs Aeneas Gunn”. It is considered by many as a classic …
Arrowsmith
Read by Lee Smalley
Sinclair Lewis
This 1926 Pulitzer Prize winning novel centers on the title character, a promising medical student who, as a doctor and following several in…
Atlantis
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Gerhart Hauptmann
Frederick von Kammacher is a young doctor in Germany whose wife has gone insane, whose children are in a boarding school, and whose career h…
The Magnificent Adventure
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Emerson Hough
"The Magnificent Adventure" in 1916 was set at the time of the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. This fiction…