Published 1900 onward

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444

Miles Franklin - Some Everyday Folk and Dawn

It is 1904 and women's suffrage has hit the small town of Noonoon. Though the election campaigners preen themselves for the women's vote, the fight isn't entirely won, for the male residents are bristling at this...

Kirsty Leishman and 2 more 9 hours 16 minutes

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482

Robert W. Chambers - Slayer of Souls

Tressa Norne is an American living in China. After her life was spared during a revolution in the area, Tressa finds herself taken as a slave and forced to serve Erlik, a demon-god, and his cult. She ends up escaping...

Lynne T and 4 more 7 hours 11 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

586

Oscar Wilde - Canterville Ghost (version 2)

A modern American family move into a traditionally drafty and very haunted English mansion. So far so good but anyone knowing Wilde can expect twists and turns to make it interesting. In this cast the crusty old ghost...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 20 minutes

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487

Herbert George Jenkins - Rain-Girl

Richard Beresford has recently returned from the WW-I trenches. He feels he can't go back to his old life in the Foreign Office. Instead, he sells all his possessions (except his books), and sets off on a tramp...

Anna Simon 7 hours 5 minutes

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Romance

507

E.D.E.N. Southworth - Her Mother's Secret

What kind of secret could a mother be keeping that would keep long time lovers apart, and force her eldest daughter into a hasty marriage? Young Odalite and her cousin Leonidas have lived the past three years apart,...

Bridget Gaige 8 hours 47 minutes

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Literary Fiction

531

D. H. Lawrence - Sons and Lovers (Version 2)

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 refinement goes into the lower class, and has no satisfaction in her own life....

Tony Foster 16 hours 21 minutes

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General Fiction

546

W. Somerset Maugham - Mrs. Craddock

“I thought it was you I saw coming up the hill,” she said, stretching out her hand. He stopped and shook it; the touch of his big, firm fingers made her tremble. His hand was massive and hard as if it were hewn...

Tony Oliva 11 hours 8 minutes

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Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions

Published 1900 onward

533

Mary Roberts Rinehart - Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions

The story of three «middle aged ladies». Follow along as they have all sorts of adventures. — Summary by Sandra More Tish stories The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carbery More Tish Proof-listeners:...

Sandra Cullum 9 hours 55 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

523

Abraham Cahan - Rise of David Levinsky

Coming to New York from the Russian Empire, Abraham Cahan founded the Jewish Daily Forward to help Yiddish-speaking immigrants adjust to life in New York. He also became a popular novelist, best known for his...

Mark Chulsky and 9 more 18 hours 51 minutes

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435

Nina Wilcox Putnam - Laughter Limited

When some people write the story of their life it is a sign that they are dead. There are in the motion-picture world also a class of dead ones who allow somebody else to write their biography. Dead from the neck up,...

MaryAnn and 5 more 7 hours 33 minutes

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436

Elizabeth von Arnim - Benefactress

Anna Estcourt, twenty-five and beautiful, is the penniless ward of her distant brother and his exasperating wife. Turning down all offers of marriage, scornful at the thought of leaning on a man for help and comfort,...

Helen Taylor 11 hours 28 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

483

Henry James - Third Person

The Third Person is an amusing spoof on spooking. The 'ghostly man about the house' in whom two increasingly competitive maiden ladies come to take a proprietary interest is as unlikely to inspire terror as the wraith...

Anthony Orr 1 hour 2 minutes

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New

Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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