Published 1900 onward
All the Brothers Were Valiant
Read by Roger Melin
Ben Ames Williams
Joel Shore, newly appointed captain of the whaling ship Nathan Ross following his brother's apparent demise as captain of the same ship, ele…
Whirligigs
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
O. Henry
A collection of short stories. - Summary by Richard Kilmer
Septimus
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
The book concerns the tangled lives of four people: Zora, a young widow who seeks some purpose in her life; Septimus Dix, an other-wordly bu…
The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories
Read by Kirsten Wever
George Gissing
George Gissing was a prolific English writer of novels and short stories. Among his best known novels is The Odd Women, which was influenced…
The Diary of a Goose Girl
Read by Maria Therese
Kate Douglas Wiggin
The "Goose Girl" is a young and somewhat independent lady who, in fleeing from her lover with whom there had been a "little t…
The Wonderful Year
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
Martin Overshaw and Corinna Hastings are leading dull and unproductive lives in Paris, having fled humdrum England. They fall in with Fortin…
The Girl From Hollywood
Read by Joseph DeNoia
Edgar Rice Burroughs
The countryside outside of Los Angeles is a paradise on Earth: nature gives bounty on the land, the animals are majestic, the oaks breathe a…
The Doctor's Christmas Eve
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
James Lane Allen
A gentle reminiscence of a fictional country doctor as the year is drawing to a close. Unlike city doctors, the personal and professional li…
Jacob's Room (version 2)
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Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf’s third novel lacks a conventional narrative style and some say even a plot. It follows Jacob from his childhood, through his…
The Colonel's Dream
Read by James K. White
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
In this novel, Chesnutt described the hopelessness of Reconstruction in a post-Civil War South that was bent on reestablishing the former st…
Miss Philura's Wedding Gown
Read by Anne Fletcher
Florence Morse Kingsley
Follow-up to "The Transfiguration of Miss Philura"....will the conviction of mild-mannered Miss Philura that "Ask and you hav…
Mr. Britling Sees It Through
Read by Peter Eastman
H. G. Wells
"Mr. Britling Sees It Through" is H. G. Wells' attempt to make sense of World War I. It begins with a lighthearted account of an …
The Night Club
Read by Lee Smalley
Herbert George Jenkins
This work of fiction by Herbert Jenkins (1876-1923) features one of his best-loved comic characters, the affable Cockney, Joseph Bindle. It …
The Pink Shop
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Fergus Hume
The Pink Shop operates outside the limits of the law by a mysterious woman concealed under a black veil. Follow the twists and turns as you …
City of Endless Night
Read by Kate Follis
Milo Hastings
An example of early dystopian science fiction written shortly after World War I, "City of Endless Night" imagines a future with a …
The Flirt
Read by Lee Smalley
Booth Tarkington
Laura and Cora Madison and their younger brother Hedrick live with their parents in a Midwestern American town that is fairly bursting with …
The Secret of Father Brown
Read by Kirsten Wever
G. K. Chesterton
This is the fourth collection of mysteries featuring the very smart and even more devout catholic priest, Father Brown. (It follows The Inno…
The Heart of Philura
Read by Anne Fletcher
Florence Morse Kingsley
Once again Mrs Kingsley does not shy away from the highs and lows of life in the quickly changing world of the 1900s…the ageing women workin…
Jaffery
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
The book follows the lives of Hilary, the narrator, and three of his friends whom he met at Cambridge. One soon dies - another (Adrian) writ…
A Far Country
Read by Kate Follis
Winston Churchill
The book follows the career of Hugh Paret from youth to manhood, and how his profession as a corporation lawyer gradually changes his values…