Published 1900 onward

The Mystery of the Ravenspurs

Read by Roger Melin


Fred M. White


The Ravenspurs have for generations resided quietly in prosperity and comfort at their seaside castle. But the clan is suddenly besieged wit…

The Pretty Lady

Read by Simon Evers


Arnold Bennett


‘The Pretty Lady’ is considered to be one of Bennett's most revealing and under-rated works. It is the story of a French prostitute, Christi…

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 Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry

Read by Sandra Cullum


Mary Roberts Rinehart


Letitia, Aggie and Lizzie are at it again, solving mysteries, getting into scrapes. Is there no end to the antics of these three spinster la…

Sons and Lovers (Version 2)

Read by Tony Foster


D. H. Lawrence


Lawrence summarised the plot of Sons and Lovers in a letter to Edward Garnett in 1912:“It follows this idea: a woman of character and refine…

The Man of the Desert

Read by LikeManyWaters


Grace Livingston Hill


Fleeing from an aggressive suitor, Hazel Radcliffe becomes hopelessly lost in the Arizona desert. Exhausted, she falls unconscious from her …

Rilla of Ingleside (version 2)

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Lucy Maud Montgomery


Rilla of Ingleside (1921) is the final book in the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, but was the sixth of the eight "…

こころ (Kokoro)

Read by ekzemplaro


Sōseki Natsume


語り手は、鎌倉の海岸で、先生と知り合いになる。東京に戻ってからも度々、先生の家を訪ねた。先生は、苦悩持っていた。先生の友人Ｋが、先生が若い頃に自殺をした。先生は、毎月、その友人の墓を訪ねていた。　語り手が、大学を卒業し、父の病の為に帰省したままで、東京に戻れない時、先生からの遺書…

Fifty-one Tales (version 2)

Read by Rosslyn Carlyle


Lord Dunsany


A multitude of very short stories populated with things that lurk in the dark corners of human imagination. Wonderfully crafted and sometime…

The Ghost Girl

Read by Kate Follis


Henry Kitchell Webster


Henry Kitchell Webster is an American author best know for his detective novels. The Ghost Girl opens with a murder mystery. A young woman's…

Daddy-Long-Legs Version 2

Read by Jo Karabasz


Jean Webster


Jerusha Abbott was brought up at the John Grier Home, an old-fashioned orphanage. The children were wholly dependent on charity and had to w…

A Thin Ghost And Others

Read by David Wales


M. R. James


Five ghost stories, published in 1920, by the early twentieth century master of ghostery. - Summary by david wales

The Flood

Read by R. S. Steinberg


Émile Zola


A well-to-do French farm family is destroyed by a flood. The story, thrilling to the very end, is told from the point of view of the family…

Three Stories & Ten Poems

Read by KevinS


Ernest Hemingway


The author arranged for this collection of three short stories and ten poems to be printed in a small run of 300 copies in Dijon (France.) T…

The Financier

Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)


Theodore Dreiser


In Philadelphia, Frank Cowperwood, whose father is a banker, makes his first money by buying cheap soaps on the market and selling it back w…

El País del Placer

Read by Victor Villarraza


Edith Wharton


El país del placer llamada así por la primera traducción en español de esta novela de Edith Wharton publicada po…

Blazed Trail Stories and Stories Of The Wild Life

Read by David Wales


Stewart Edward White


Thirteen short stories by a popular writer of the early 20th century (not to be confused with an earlier book Blazed Trail). White's books …

The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel

Read by David Wales


A. E. W. Mason


Inspector Hanaud is a member of the French Sûreté. He is said to have been the model for Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, as w…

A Girl of the Limberlost (version 2)

Read by Patience Charles


Gene Stratton-Porter


Set in the Limberlost swamp of Indiana, A Girl of the Limberlost follows Elnora Comstock through struggles and triumphs as she seeks educati…

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