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The Painted Veil

Read by Bob R


W. Somerset Maugham


This Maugham classic is set in England and Hong Kong and in a cholera --ridden Chinese village in the 1920's. A committed, principled, epide…

The Winning of Barbara Worth

Read by Bob R


Harold Bell Wright


This is a fairly substantial western, written in 1911 by Harold Bell Wright, then a major bestselling author. (His best-known novel is “The …

The Conquest of Canaan

Read by Bob R


Booth Tarkington


Small town middle America in early 1900's---Ne'er-do-well Joe Louden loves daughter of wealthy judge, from afar---leaves town, goes to law s…

Robert Kimberly

Read by Bob R


Frank H. Spearman


The novel is set among the wealthy of the Northeast in the USA of the early 1900's. A close knit group of about ten couples in high society …

The Daughter of a Magnate

Read by Bob R


Frank H. Spearman


This is an American Western without any bad guys. The main characters are trains, and the elements---snow, terrain, weather and water. Fra…

Poor White: a Novel

Read by Bob R


Sherwood Anderson


This is a story of the effect of industrialization on a small town and its people, around the beginning of the 20th Century. The lead charac…

The Rising of the Tide

Read by Bob R


Ida M. Tarbell


The subtitle is "the story of Sabinsport", and the town is the major character. It is a small, Midwestern town in the USA, in 1914…

Helen of the Old House

Read by Bob R


Harold Bell Wright


Helen is not the main character; it is the mill, in this small town in the first half of the 20th century. This is a story of labor strife, …

The Beasts of Tarzan

Read by James Christopher


Edgar Rice Burroughs


This is the third of Burrough's Tarzan novels. Originally serialized in All-Story Cavalier magazine in 1914, the novel was first published i…

Quantum Mechanics

Read by James Binney


James Binney


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Shadow of Black Wings

Read by James Calbraith


James Calbraith


It is the Sixteenth Year of Queen Victoria. In the powerful empire of Dracaland, Bran, a young dragon rider, joins his father on a military …

The Zombie Chronicles: Escape

Read by James Melzer


James Melzer


When an asteroid passes by our planet and leaves a trail of death in its wake, a quarter of the population have become the living dead. Twen…

The Scarlet Plague

Read by James Christopher


Jack London


Known mainly for his tales of adventure, this work of science fiction by Jack London is set in a post-apocalyptic future. It's 2072, sixty y…

Simple Sabotage Field Manual

Read by James Christopher


United States Office Of Strategic Services


Formed during World War II, the United States Office of Strategic Services (OSS), was organized for special operations and intelligence gath…

A Story of the Stone Age

Read by James Christopher


H. G. Wells


This story is of a time beyond the memory of man, before the beginning of history. . .(Summary from the text)

Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art lectures

Read by James Grant


James Grant


University of Oxford Podcasts

I Am Adam

Read by James Twerell


James Twerell


This is the book of generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him: male and female created he the…

Gulliver of Mars

Read by James Christopher


Sir Edwin Arnold and Edwin Lester Arnold


This escapist novel first published in 1905 as Lieutenant Gullivar Jones: His Vacation follows the exploits of American Navy Lieutenant Gull…

Five Children and It (version 4)

Read by James Pyle


E. Nesbit


When four children (and their baby brother makes five) manage to uncover the long-dormant Psammead (in plain English, then, Sand-Fairy) in a…

The Beast in the Jungle

Read by Rob James


Henry James


'The Beast in the Jungle' is a 1903 novella by Henry James, first published as part of the collection, The Better Sort. Almost universally c…

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