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Fame and Fortune Weekly No. 15: A Streak of Luck

Read by Keith Salis


Frank Tousey


Some folks are judged by their social or economic standing. Our hero, Ben Bailey, shows that true worth comes from richness of character. Th…

Fame and Fortune Weekly No. 20: A Barrel of Money

Read by Keith Salis


Frank Tousey


Bertie Ballister, an honest and hard-working messenger boy for a banker on Wall Street, never lets the issues of his life get in the way of …

Fame and Fortune Weekly No. 4: A Game of Chance

Read by Keith Salis


Frank Tousey


Will Sommers is a talented young man who currently works in the Engine Room of a factory, but who is quickly becoming an Engineer. He uses h…

Fame and Fortune Weekly No. 1: A Lucky Deal; or The 'Cutest Boy in Wall Street

Read by Keith Salis


Frank Tousey


A Lucky Deal is a story of a young New York lad who, in the process of looking for a job, becomes a hero and lands a dream job as a messenge…

Fame and Fortune Weekly No. 8: The Wheel of Fortune

Read by Keith Salis


Frank Tousey


This is the story of Bert Hawley who, at a young age, saw his mother die of illness and had to fend off his drunken father in their ramshack…

The Gambler (version 2)

Read by Simon Evers


Katherine Cecil Thurston


The book follows the life of Clodagh Asshlin, an Irish girl brought up with her younger sister by her spendthrift father in the wilds of the…

The Money Moon (version 2)

Read by Simon Evers


John Jeffery Farnol


George Bellew, an American millionaire is in London, where he is jilted by his ladylove. He sets off to travel on an aimless adventure throu…

Miss Mackenzie

Read by Kirsten Wever


Anthony Trollope


The thirty-five year-old (hence utterly over-the-hill) Miss Margaret Mackenzie, having devoted her life to others, suddenly finds herself wi…

The Millionaire Baby

Read by Dawn Larsen


Anna Katharine Green


A reward of five thousand dollars is offered, by Phil Ocumpaugh, to whoever will give such information as will lead to the recovery, alive o…

My Lady's Money

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Wilkie Collins


Lady Lydiard has an uncomfortable bit of business to settle, and intends to do so with a five hundred pound note. But just as she is about t…

The Gambler

Read by Tom Weiss


Katherine Cecil Thurston


Clodagh, 18 years old, is the eldest daughter of Dennis Asshlin, an Irish gentleman who lives in an area of Ireland called Orristown. Dennis…

Kipps

Read by Anthony Ogus


H. G. Wells


Arthur Kipps, an orphaned draper’s assistant of humble means, unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money and that is when all his troubles b…

Fame and Fortune Weekly No. 2: Born to Good Luck; or The Boy Who Succeeded

Read by Keith Salis


Frank Tousey


Dick Armstrong is an enterprising young man who works his way out of a slave-labor situation to become a successful businessman at only age …

The Money Moon: A Romance

Read by Jeffery Farnol


Jeffery Farnol


Rejected in love, the incredibly rich (but appropriately modest) George Bellew walks into a small English village populated with a cast of m…

The Fortune Hunter: A Novel of New York Society

Read by Kelly S. Taylor


Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie


Mowatt wrote The Fortune Hunter to be submitted to a contest held by the New World newspaper. (The novel won the $100 prize.) Contest rules…

The Science of Getting Rich

Read by Diana Majlinger


Wallace D. Wattles


Would you like to be rich? Yes? Well, who wouldn't.The Science of Getting Rich is a book written by the New Thought Movement writer Wallace …

Fame and Fortune Weekly No. 11: A Lucky Penny

Read by Keith Salis


Frank Tousey


Tom Garland is a young man in Boston who is sent to learn a trade at an Industrial Farm near the bay. There he meets another young man who's…

Eline Vere

Read by Carola Janssen


Louis Couperus


De 19e eeuwse klassieker Eline Vere speelt in de gegoede kringen van Den Haag. Eline is een jonge, mooie maar labiele vrouw die zich veel va…

The Begum's Fortune

Read by Kate Follis


Jules Verne


A novel with some utopian elements, but primarily dystopian. A French doctor and a German professor both inherit a vast fortune as descendan…

A Chicago Princess

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Robert Barr


After working several years in foreign affairs, and after winning and then losing a fortune, Rupert Tremorne is stranded in Nagasaki, at the…

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