Category Archives: Published 1900 onward

Audiobook: Parnassus on Wheels

Parnassus on Wheels is about a fictional traveling book-selling business. The original owner of the

Audiobook: Tales of the Five Towns

This is a selection of short stories recounting, with gentle satire and tolerant good humour,

Audiobook: Flood

A well-to-do French farm family is destroyed by a flood. The story, thrilling to the

Audiobook: Trespasser

Brief Encounter meets Tristan und Isolde – on the Isle of Wight, under a vast

Audiobook: Tea-table Talk

As the New York Times said in 1903, this lesser-known work by Jerome K. Jerome

Audiobook: Adrift in New York

John Linden is a very wealthy man. The people who should inherit his property are

Audiobook: Sons and Lovers

This intimate portrait of a coal-miner’s family fastens on each member in turn: Walter Morel,

Audiobook: Street of Seven Stars

Published in 1914, this novel tells the story of Harmony Wells, an innocent and beautiful

Audiobook: Eye of Dread

The Civil War is upon the United States, and the town of Leauvite has sent

Audiobook: Amy Foster

Classic shortish story by Conrad that relates his self-thought alienation from British society, as a

Audiobook: All the Brothers Were Valiant

Joel Shore, newly appointed captain of the whaling ship Nathan Ross following his brother’s apparent

Audiobook: Milky Way

The Milky Way – F. Tennyson Jesse’s first novel – began life as a 1913

Audiobook: Fidelity

The small Midwestern town of Freeport was scandalized years ago when Ruth Holland, then a

Audiobook: Third Miss Symons

Miss Mayor tells this story with singular skill, more by contrast than by drama, bringing

Audiobook: Botchan

Botchan is the story of a young math teacher from Tokyo whose first assignment takes

Audiobook: Rain (Version 2)

Rain charts the moral disintegration of a missionary attempting to convert a Pacific island prostitute

Audiobook: Gambler

Clodagh, 18 years old, is the eldest daughter of Dennis Asshlin, an Irish gentleman who

Audiobook: Financier

In Philadelphia, Frank Cowperwood, whose father is a banker, makes his first money by buying

Audiobook: History of Mr. Polly

A funny and touching account of the imaginative Mr. Polly who, bored and trapped in

Audiobook: Running Water

Although A.E.W. Mason is best known for The Four Feathers, an adventure novel of 1902

Audiobook: Jacket

A framing story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor

Audiobook: Five Tales

This 1918 book consists of five short stories or novelettes by Galsworthy. They are The

Audiobook: Cathedral Courtship

An romantic comedy. A pretty young American girls tours English Cathedrals, with her very blue-blooded

Audiobook: Emperor of Portugallia

Selma Lagerlöf was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very

Audiobook: His Family

The 1910s is historically considered the decade of greatest social change in history. It saw

Audiobook: Magician

The Magician is a novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham, originally published in 1908.

Audiobook: Secret Places of the Heart

Richard Hardy, a member of the British gentry, tries to resolve problems in his marriage

Audiobook: Echoes of the War

Short stories with dramatic parts about civilian life in London during the First World War.

Audiobook: Efficiency Expert

Our hero, Jimmy Torrance, Jr., has a hard time finding suitable employment after a brilliant

Audiobook: Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness!

“Thy Soul shall bear Witness” (Körkarlen) by the Swedish Nobel Laureate Selma Lagerlöf is a