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In The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today

Read by Jillian T. Weiss


Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner and Mark Twain


The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirizes greed and political corruption in po…

Beyond the Door

In Short Science Fiction Collection 036

Read by Jillian T. Weiss


Phillip K. Dick and Philip K. Dick


Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and sci…

The Jungle

Read by Tom Weiss


Upton Sinclair


It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better…

The Chessmen of Mars

Read by Tom Weiss


Edgar Rice Burroughs


The Chessmen of Mars is a science fiction novel by the mental sword and physical pen wielding author Edgar Rice Burroughs. It the fifth inst…

The Four Faces

Read by Tom Weiss


William Le Queux


Michael Berrington is a bachelor leading a quiet life in London. Overhearing a conversation at his club one day, he becomes interested in a …

The Czar's Spy

Read by Tom Weiss


William Le Queux


William Le Queux was a British novelist and prolific writer of mysteries. Indeed, mystery surrounds the author himself as to whether he was …

The Escaping Club

Read by Tom Weiss


A. J. Evans


Described by some as one of the greatest escape books published. The Escaping Club recounts Evans' escape to Switzerland from a supposedly &…

The Seven Secrets

Read by Tom Weiss


William Le Queux


A true “whodunit” with as many twists and turns as an English country road. Old man Courtenay is found murdered in his bed. Dr. Ralph Boyd i…

Of Human Bondage

Read by Tom Weiss


W. Somerset Maugham


Of Human Bondage, published in 1915, is considered to be W. Somerset Maugham’s best work. Many believe the novel to be one of the world’s li…

The History of Standard Oil: Volume 1

Read by Tom Weiss


Ida M. Tarbell


The History of the Standard Oil Company is a book written by journalist Ida Tarbell in 1904. It was an exposé of the Standard Oil Com…

The Great Secret

Read by Tom Weiss


E. Phillips Oppenheim


English gentleman Hardross Courage has a good life. He has all the money he needs, enjoys sports and hunting, manages the family estate, and…

The Great Impersonation

Read by Tom Weiss


E. Phillips Oppenheim


E. Phillips Oppenheim, an English novelist created well in excess of 100 novels and 30 plus collections of short stories. Most of his tales …

The Stretton Street Affair

Read by Tom Weiss


William Le Queux


Hugh Gabriel has recently been repatriated from the war and has rejoined his old firm as an electrical engineer. On the way to visit his unc…

Hushed Up! A Mystery of London

Read by Tom Weiss


William Le Queux


A young man, Owen Biddulph, is drawn to a beautiful young woman with a mysterious past... a past that seems to have returned to cause her di…

The Coral Island

Read by Tom Weiss


R. M. Ballantyne


Ralph Rover is a traveler at heart, and has always dreamed of shipping out to the South Seas islands. He finally convinces his aging parents…

The Avenger

Read by Tom Weiss


E. Phillips Oppenheim


Herbert Wrayson, a bachelor returns to his flat one night to find a young lady rifling his desk. He questions her and finds she thought she …

The Zeppelin's Passenger

Read by Tom Weiss


E. Phillips Oppenheim


The Zeppelin’s Passenger is a tale of German espionage in England during World War I. Dreymarsh is a fictional “backwater” area in England w…

An Eye For An Eye

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William Le Queux


Frank Urwin and Richard Cleugh are two bachelor journalists sharing a flat in London. One evening while chatting, Urwin receives a telegram …

The Double Traitor

Read by Tom Weiss


E. Phillips Oppenheim


The setting is the years prior to the outbreak of World War I. It is a time when Germany is outwardly preparing for war but Britain continue…

The Eyes Of The World

Read by Tom Weiss


Harold Bell Wright


The Eyes of the World was the Best Selling Book for 1914 according to Publisher's Weekly. The novel explores what Harold Bell Wright views a…

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