Published 1900 onward

Settlers of the Marsh

Read by Bruce Pirie


Frederick Philip Grove



The novel “Settlers of the Marsh” (1925) is a foundational work of realism in Canadian fiction. Its author, Frederick Philip Grove, a German…

Molly Brown's Senior Days

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson


Nell Speed



This novel is the fourth in a series of eight books written about Miss Molly Brown of Kentucky during her education at Wellington College in…

Silas Strong

Read by Roger Melin


Irving Bacheller



Per the author: "The book has one high ambition. It has tried to tell the sad story of the wilderness itself—to show, from the woodsman…

Her Prairie Knight

Read by LikeManyWaters


B. M. Bower



When Miss Beatrice Lansell arrives in Montana from the east for a visit to her brother's ranch, she is swept off her feet by the majestic, r…

Black Pawl

Read by Lee Smalley


Ben Ames Williams



This riveting novel takes place on a whaling ship, where its captain, Black Pawl, has a troubled relationship with the first mate, his son. …

The Milky Way

Read by Grant Hurlock


F. Tennyson Jesse



The Milky Way - F. Tennyson Jesse's first novel - began life as a 1913 magazine serial called The Adventures of Viv. In it, poor-but-plucky …

The Beautiful Mrs. Davenant

Read by Anne Fletcher


Violet Tweedale



Romantic entanglements and scandals of friends and families come to light when two women arrive to start new lives in the countryside. - Su…

The Wooden Horse

Read by David Wales


Hugh Walpole



Walpole’s first novel (1909), The Wooden Horse is the story of the Trojans, a family which accepted tranquilly the belief that they were the…

The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

Read by Peter Eastman


George Gissing



This novel consists of selections from the diary of an author, starting soon after his retirement and continuing until just before his death…

Rebellion

Read by Lee Smalley


Joseph Patterson



Cinematic in style and rich in characterization, this novel is set in early 20th century Chicago – in a barroom, at home, and in the workpla…

The Late Mattia Pascal

Read by Peter Tucker


Luigi Pirandello



Mattia Pascal grew up in a small Italian town not dissimilar to that of the author's upbringing. Pascal leads a somewhat feckless boyhood, a…

Mollie of the Movies

Read by Amanda Friday


Kenneth Mcgaffey



This is a story of a girl who tries to make it big in the world of show business. McGaffey gives us the heroine's first-person account. He w…

Joan Thursday

Read by VfkaBT


Louis Joseph Vance



Minor potboiler is a change of pace from the author of the Lone Wolf detective series. Tenement beauty (and wannabe stage-star) Joan Thursb…

Ruffles and Danny, or the Responsibilty of Ruffles

Read by TriciaG


Margery Watson



A nice little story about a widower, his 18-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son, and their vacation from their home in Colorado to the shor…

The Hundredth Chance

Read by Celine Major


Ethel M. Dell



In this prequel to "Charles Rex'' by Ethel M. Dell you will meet the aristocratic blackguard Lord Saltash for whom our distressed heroi…

Mont Oriol: or A Romance of Auvergne

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Guy de Maupassant



Young bride Christiane arrives in Auvergne to "take the waters" with her husband, described as "a sickly flower, or a sucking…

Bransford Of Rainbow Range

Read by David Wales


Eugene Manlove Rhodes



A genuine cowboy who speaks a bit of Greek? Ditto a bit of The Litany? And more than a little verse, including (would you believe?) Alice In…

The Eye of Dread

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Payne Erskine



The Civil War is upon the United States, and the town of Leauvite has sent away its young men, among them Peter Junior and Richard Kildene. …

Twilight Sleep

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


Edith Wharton



Wharton miraculously finds it possible to satirize the very rich while simultaneously showing compassion and even grudging admiration for so…

The Book of Clever Beasts

Read by Daryl Wor


Myrtle Reed



A humorous book, hitting off the many writers who have returned to nature and made intimate friends in the Animal World. The author describe…

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