Published 1900 onward
The Late Mattia Pascal
Read by Peter Tucker
Luigi Pirandello
Mattia Pascal grew up in a small Italian town not dissimilar to that of the author's upbringing. Pascal leads a somewhat feckless boyhood, a…
The Wooden Horse
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
Walpole’s first novel (1909), The Wooden Horse is the story of the Trojans, a family which accepted tranquilly the belief that they were the…
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
Read by Peter Eastman
George Gissing
This novel consists of selections from the diary of an author, starting soon after his retirement and continuing until just before his death…
Rebellion
Read by Lee Smalley
Joseph Patterson
Cinematic in style and rich in characterization, this novel is set in early 20th century Chicago – in a barroom, at home, and in the workpla…
Lady Chatterley's Lover
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D. H. Lawrence
In the years following World War I, Connie Chatterley finds that she is unhappy in her marriage. She begins a cross-class relationship with …
Mollie of the Movies
Read by Amanda Friday
Kenneth Mcgaffey
This is a story of a girl who tries to make it big in the world of show business. McGaffey gives us the heroine's first-person account. He w…
Joan Thursday
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Louis Joseph Vance
Minor potboiler is a change of pace from the author of the Lone Wolf detective series. Tenement beauty (and wannabe stage-star) Joan Thursb…
Ruffles and Danny
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Margery Watson
A nice little story about a widower, his 18-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son, and their vacation from their home in Colorado to the shor…
Twilight Sleep
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Edith Wharton
Wharton miraculously finds it possible to satirize the very rich while simultaneously showing compassion and even grudging admiration for so…
Mont Oriol
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Guy de Maupassant
Young bride Christiane arrives in Auvergne to "take the waters" with her husband, described as "a sickly flower, or a sucking…
Whose Body?
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Dorothy L. Sayers
In Dorothy Sayers' first Lord Peter Wimsey novel, our brilliant and eccentric hero must solve the case of the murder of Sir Reuben Levy - th…
The Hundredth Chance
Read by Celine Major
Ethel M. Dell
In this prequel to "Charles Rex'' by Ethel M. Dell you will meet the aristocratic blackguard Lord Saltash for whom our distressed heroi…
Bransford Of Rainbow Range
Read by David Wales
Eugene Manlove Rhodes
A genuine cowboy who speaks a bit of Greek? Ditto a bit of The Litany? And more than a little verse, including (would you believe?) Alice In…
All the Sad Young Men
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
A collection of short stories featuring a suite of wealthy protagonists navigating the perceived hardships of 1920s society. The themes cent…
The Eye of Dread
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Payne Erskine
The Civil War is upon the United States, and the town of Leauvite has sent away its young men, among them Peter Junior and Richard Kildene. …
The Third Person
Read by Anthony Orr
Henry James
The Third Person is an amusing spoof on spooking. The 'ghostly man about the house' in whom two increasingly competitive maiden ladies come …
The Book of Clever Beasts
Read by Daryl Wor
Myrtle Reed
A humorous book, hitting off the many writers who have returned to nature and made intimate friends in the Animal World. The author describe…
The Crimson Gardenia
Read by David Wales
Rex Beach
Published in 1916, this book collects eleven stories originally published in several different magazines. Beach’s adventure stories were im…
The Leopard's Claw
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George W. Ellis
A love and adventure story with the West African jungle as the main backdrop. We gain some insight into the spiritual influence of African s…
Elsie And The Child
Read by David Wales
Arnold Bennett
Thirteen short stories (1924) by a master story teller of the early twentieth century. His writings, fiction and nonfiction, were popular wi…