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An Old-Fashioned Girl

Read by Jennette Selig


Louisa May Alcott


Polly Milton, a 14-year-old country girl, visits her friend Fanny Shaw and her wealthy family in the city for the first time. Poor Polly is …

Dope

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Sax Rohmer


A minor lord is killed and a rich socialite is missing, and they are both tied to the enigmatic Kazmah the Dream Reader, who has also disapp…

Thomas Carlyle

Read by David Wales


G. K. Chesterton


A short biography (1902) of a famous writer (Carlyle) by another famous writer (Chesterton). The first half exhibits Chesterton’s sly wit a…

Reading: An Essay

Read by David Wales


Hugh Walpole


A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Read by Karen Savage


Baroness Emma Orczy


The classic story of Sir Percy Blakeney and his alter ego, the Scarlet Pimpernel. A great adventure, set during the French Revolution. (Summ…

A Group of Famous Women

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Edith Horton


It is a remarkable fact that little attention, if any, has been given to the study of the careers of distinguished women, and the question h…

The Pupil

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


Pemberton, a young American with an Oxford education and out of money, takes a job tutoring Morgan Moreen, the 12-year old son of an America…

Somehow Good

Read by Helen Taylor


William Frend De Morgan


A mysterious man arrives in London and, in a freak accident, gets electrocuted on an underground train and loses his memory. A young lady ca…

The Precipice

Read by Mary Schneider


Elia Wilkinson Peattie


Elia Peattie was an outspoken journalist and social activist who gave her attention to such areas as orphanages, charity hospitals, the Woun…

Main Street (Version 2)

Read by Mark Nelson


Sinclair Lewis


Carol Milford, a college-educated, progressive, ambitious young woman, is self-sufficient working as a librarian in St. Paul, when she meets…

New World Orders

Read by Edward G. Talbot


Edward G. Talbot


In the nineteen-sixties, a group of wealthy men concludes that it's already too late to stop global warming from destroying the planet. But …

Villette (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

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Charlotte Brontë


After an unspecified family disaster, protagonist Lucy Snowe travels to the fictional city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school where…

Writing Quebec [Readings]


SANWAL CBC


A ten part series of readings of remarkable Quebec Literature, Fiction and Poetry, focusing on post-war writing. Heather Brown Between The C…

Fiander's Widow

Read by Belinda Loveday


M. E. Francis


A rural romance, as described by the author, set in Dorset. A 58 year old farmer meets the beautiful young grand-daughter of a recently dece…

Constance Dunlap

Read by J. M. Smallheer


Arthur B. Reeve


Constance Dunlap is a young woman who in Chapter 1 turns amateur criminal in order to to save her husband from disgrace and imminent arrest.…

Fenton's Quest

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon


This story revolves around Gilbert Fenton, a very talented middle class businessman from London, who falls in love with a beautiful country …

Black Oxen

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Gertrude Atherton


Lee Clavering, a young playwright falls in love with an Austrian countess, not noticing the adoring glances from the outgoing flapper, Janet…

Mrs. Dymond

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Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie


Susanna Holcombe, a very sensitive and free spirited young lady, tries to fit in to society. But it is very hard for a Victorian woman to ca…

Vanity Fair (version 2)

Read by Helen Taylor


William Makepeace Thackeray


One of the great Victorian novels by an author at the height of his powers, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of the calculating, upwardly-mo…

Isles of Eden

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Laura Lee Davidson


A charming and thoughtful view of life in Canada experienced while vacationing on a small island in summer. The author is a women who is ind…

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