General Fiction
Fifty-One Tales
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Lord Dunsany
Very brief, well-crafted stories, many having surprise endings, all steeped in the dye of myth and calling to every reader's neglected imagi…
Sister Carrie
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Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945) was an American author of the naturalist school, known for dealing with the gritty reality of life. Sister Carr…
Running Water
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
A. E. W. Mason
Although A.E.W. Mason is best known for The Four Feathers, an adventure novel of 1902 set in Egypt and the Sudan (and filmed several times),…
The Lady of the Basement Flat
Read by Judi Mason
Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
A naive young girl strikes out on her own and ends up leading a double life in this engaging tale of love lost and found. Summary by Judi M…
The Bobbsey Twins or Merry Days Indoors and Out
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Laura Lee Hope
The Bobbsey Twins are the principal characters of what was, for many years, the Stratemeyer Syndicate's longest-running series of children's…
Six Feet Four
Read by Roger Melin
Jackson Gregory
A hotel is robbed one night, and a cowboy makes his getaway with but few witnesses. When a young woman is also robbed, suspicion falls on on…
Zapiski iz podpolya (Notes from the Underground)
Read by Yakovlev Valery
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a sophisticated novell with extremely hard to comprehend philosophical ideas lying on the bor…
King Coal
Read by MichelleHarris
Upton Sinclair
King Coal is a book by Upton Sinclair, first published in 1917, that exposes the dirty working conditions in the coal mining industry in the…
The Little House in the Fairy Wood
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Ethel Cook Eliot
A lonely boy is taken in by the friendly inhabitants of a little house in the woods. Through this adventure, he finds the fairy folk, nature…
Aunt Jane's Nieces
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L. Frank Baum
Jane Merrick is a wealthy, elderly, difficult invalid woman who is preparing for her approaching death. In her youth, she inherited her mone…
The Black Fawn
Read by Roger Melin
Jim Kjelgaard
Bud Sloan was an orphan who had been 'sold out' of the orphanage to work on a farm once he'd been old enough to labor. The farm where he was…
More William
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Richmal Crompton
The second of Crompton's series of 39 books about William Brown, our cheeky 11 year-old protagonist. A hero to some, a dastardly villain to …
Life in the Iron Mills
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Rebecca Harding Davis
This 1861 novella was the first published work by Rebecca Harding Davis: writer, social reformer, and pioneer of literary realism. It tell…
Robert Falconer
Read by Kenneth R. Morefield
George MacDonald
A Victorian novel devoted to beloved character first introduced to readers in MacDonald's David Elginbrod. (Summary by Kenneth R. Morefield)
Christmas Holidays at Merryvale
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Alice Hale Burnett
“Toad” Brown, his brother, and their friends have a jolly time at the Christmas holidays. They daydream at a toy shop window, chop down a Ch…
Elsie's Girlhood
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Martha Finley
In the third book of Martha Finley's much-loved Elsie Dinsmore series, Elsie's life is traced from the tender age of 12 or 13 to the mature …
Hunger
Read by Greg W.
Knut Hamsun
Hunger (Norwegian: Sult) is a novel by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun and was published in its final form in 1890. The novel has been hail…
The Cruise of the Esmeralda
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Harry Collingwood
After his father died, Captain Saint Leger and his family are left destitute. However, the Saint Legers have a family secret: an ancestor is…
Under the Andes
Read by Roger Melin
Rex Stout
Under the Andes was written by Rex Stout years before his creation of the immensely popular Nero Wolfe series of novels, and while perhaps h…
The Regent
Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)
Arnold Bennett
'The Regent' is, if not a sequel to 'The Card', then a 'Further Adventures of' the eponymous hero of that novel.Denry Machin is now forty-th…