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…