Published 1900 onward
The Dogs Of Boytown
Read by David Wales
Walter Alden Dyer
This collection of stories about dogs and the people they own was published in 1918. The story proceeds leisurely with much information abou…
The Captives
Read by Peter Tucker
Hugh Walpole
A story of alienation from the society which holds one captive, told from the standpoint of a young woman whose life is suddenly disrupted, …
Little Stories
Read by Ben Tucker
Silas Weir Mitchell
Physician and author S. Weir Mitchell brings us a short collection of stories of the human condition. Through diverse settings as the mystic…
Ring for Nancy: A Sheer Comedy
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Ford Madox Ford
Major Edward Brent Foster is on his way to a house in the country to stay with his aunt and uncle. So are his fiancée Olympia Peabody…
The Vertical City
Read by Lisa Reichert
Fannie Hurst
As the city above soars gloriously skyward, the denizens of the city writhe in its dirty underbelly.The Vertical City is a collection of six…
The Making of a Bigot
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Rose Macaulay
“How various is man! How multiplied his experience, his outlook, his conclusions!”—H. Belloc.“And every single one of them is right.”—R. Kip…
October Vagabonds
Read by Roger Melin
Richard Le Gallienne
Richard and his friend Colin must sadly return from their distant hermitage to New York City at summer's end. However, rather than take the …
Charles Rex
Read by Celine Major
Ethel M. Dell
Excerpt: "Saltash was thoroughly cosmopolitan in his tastes; he liked amusement but he abhorred boredom. He was never really wicked unl…
Encounters: Stories
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Elizabeth Bowen
Included in this first collection of stories by noted Irish-British author Elizabeth Bowen are tales of psychological unease, of pent-up emo…
Bumper the White Rabbit and His Friends
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George Ethelbert Walsh
In this fourth book of the Twilight Animal series, we find 16 stories of Bumper the white rabbit and the adventures he has with his friends …
The Meredith Mystery
Read by James R. Hedrick
Natalie Sumner Lincoln
While spending a weekend at Ten Acres, David Curtis, a blind physician, in grouping (sic) his way along the passage to his room stumbles upo…
Show Boat
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Edna Ferber
Published in 1926, Show Boat tells of three generations of the Hawks-Ravenal family and the Cotton Blossom Floating Palace Theatre on the Mi…
My Friend Annabel Lee
Read by Daryl Wor
Mary MacLane and Mary Maclane
Published in 1903, this selection of dialogues by Mary MacLane entails a mystery of wondering who she is speaking with. Is it the statue she…
When a Man's a Man
Read by KevinS
Harold Bell Wright
When a Man's a Man is a novel written by Harold Bell Wright, an author who was quite popular in the first decades of the 20th Century. This …
A Study in Shadows
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
Among the mixture of people spending the summer in a pension (boarding house) in Geneva are Felicia, a 20-year-old, and Katherine (30) who b…
Shorty McCabe
Read by Scotty Smith
Sewell Ford
Yes, it's been a couple of years since I quit the ring. . . . I slid into a quiet corner for a month or so, and then I dropped into the only…
The Lost Valley
Read by Jarrod Wetzel-Brown
Algernon Blackwood
A set of twin brothers have spent every waking moment of their lives together and are terrified of separating. However, when both men set th…
An Iceland Fisherman
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Pierre Loti
'An Iceland Fisherman' is an 1886 romance by the celebrated - he was elected to the French Academy in May, 1891 - novelist and naval officer…
Salome and the Head
Read by Peter Yearsley
E. Nesbit
Edmund Templar is visiting some relatives before being shipped off to the war in South Africa. Wandering in the New Forest, he encounters a …
The Incubator Baby
Read by Scotty Smith
Ellis Parker Butler
Marjorie Fielding is born premature and spends her first months of life in an incubator. Her mother is a modern, broad-minded woman eschewin…