Published 1900 onward
The Third Circle
Read by David Wales
Frank Norris
Sixteen short stories by the American novelist Benjamin Frank Norris Jr (1870-1902) who wrote predominantly in the naturalist genre. He liv…
Maria Chapdelaine (version 2)
Read by Bruce Pirie
Louis Hémon
The novel Maria Chapdelaine portrays life in rural Quebec at the beginning of the 20th century. Published first in French in 1913, it is a f…
Prodigal Daughters
Read by Kate Follis
Joseph Hocking
A frank look at the revolt of the younger generation following World War I, the book follows the Trelawney family. The father looks eagerly …
Thurley Ruxton
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Philip Verrill Mighels
This is a rags to riches romance about an exceedingly beautiful, poor, young girl (Thurley Ruxton) who is mentored by one of New York’s elit…
The Regeneration of Lord Ernie
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Algernon Blackwood
"The Regeneration of Lord Ernie is a story about a young man with no passion for life, he was very capable and the heir to a large fami…
The Dinner Club
Read by Kirsten Wever
Sapper
Herman Cyril McNeile, better known as Sapper, was one of England’s most popular fiction writers during the period between World Wars I and I…
Souls for Sale
Read by Deanna Bovee
Rupert Hughes
Perhaps the most commercially successful Hollywood novel of the 1920s, Rupert Hughes' Souls for Sale is a direct response to contemporaneous…
1916: First Chapters Collection
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Various
These are first chapters to books first published in 1916. Readers, following is a tentative list culled from Wikipedia's article on the yea…
Inspector French and the Cheyne Mystery
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Freeman Wills Crofts
A railway engineer by training, Freeman Wills Crofts often relied on railway themes for his plots, with careful attention to details and sch…
The Position of Peggy Harper
Read by Anna Simon
Leonard Merrick
Novel set in the shabby world of British (third-rate) theaters circa 1900. Christopher Tatham tries to survive by going from bit part to bit…
The Old Ladies
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
“Quite a number of years ago there was an old rickety building on the rock above Seatown in Polchester, and it was one of a number in an old…
Sisters
Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)
Ada Cambridge
Ada Cambridge (November 21, 1844 - July 19, 1926), later known as Ada Cross, was an English born Australian writer. While she gained recogni…
Phyllis
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Maria Thompson Daviess
Phyllis is a lonely little rich girl who comes with her millionaire father and invalid mother to live in Byrdsville, Tennessee. There she me…
The End Of The Tether
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
At an age when he should, by rights, be embarking on a well-deserved and comfortable retirement, Captain Whalley, a sailor of the old school…
Just As I Am
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The murder has finally been solved. After 20 years, Humphrey Vargas came with his dog, seemingly from no where, and informed the magistrate …
The Amethyst Cross
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Fergus Hume
Things look bleak for Lesbia Hales. Her father does not let her marry the man she loves. Her mother is dead. She has to keep secrets in orde…
The Human Boy
Read by David Wales
Eden Phillpotts
This collection of eleven short stories, both humorous and touching, about English school boys was published in 1900. The book was quite pop…
So Big
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Edna Ferber
The story of Selina DeJong and her son Dirk, whom she affectionately calls So Big. After the death of her husband, Selina raises So Big on h…
The Duchess of Wrexe
Read by Simon Evers
Hugh Walpole
Rachel, a spirited young girl, has to choose between Francis Breton, her difficult cousin who has been disowned by the family, and Roddy Sed…
Three Elephant Power and Other Stories
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Andrew Barton Paterson and Banjo Paterson
From Banjo Paterson, bush poet and favorite son of Australia, here is a collection of colorful stories from Australia that offer a window in…