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Coffee Break Collection 010 - War and Conflict - Various
Coffee Break Collection 010 - War and Conflict - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
This is the tenth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for work/study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like to hear a whole story and only...
Jude the Obscure (Version 2) - Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure (Version 2) - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: General Fiction
Eleven-year-old Jude Fawley, inspired by his teacher Mr. Phillotson, who leaves Marygreen for Christminster to take a university degree, decides to adopt the same course for himself. Raised by his great-aunt, he studies hard with the aid of some old...
An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (Dramatic Reading) - Henry Fielding
An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (Dramatic Reading) - Henry Fielding
- Author: Henry Fielding
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, or simply Shamela, as it is more commonly known, is a satirical novel written by Henry Fielding and first published in April 1741 under the name of Mr. Conny Keyber. Fielding never owned to writing...
Black Heart and White Heart - H. Rider Haggard
Black Heart and White Heart - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
Black Heart and White Heart, is a story of the courtship, trials and final union of a pair of Zulu lovers in the time of King Cetywayo. (Introduction by H. Rider Haggard)...
Our Mutual Friend, Version 3 - Charles Dickens
Our Mutual Friend, Version 3 - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction
Our Mutual Friend, the last novel completed by Charles Dickens, has many plots, twists and turns, from the murky river Thames to the gold and crystal on the tables of ‘Society’. A tale of murder, treachery, jealousy and love, takes us first to a...
The Brass Bottle - F. Anstey
The Brass Bottle - F. Anstey
- Author: F. Anstey
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
What happens when a not-so-lucky man happens upon a brass bottle releases the djinni caught within? Misunderstanding, culture shock, hilarity, among other things. Will the well-intentioned djinni help his new master? Or will he makes things even...
The Marne: a tale of the war - Edith Wharton
The Marne: a tale of the war - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: General Fiction / War & Military Fiction
American writer Edith Wharton is known for her novels of manners set in old New York; yet much of her adult life was spent in France. She lived in Paris throughout World War I and was heavily involved in refugee work. Her 1918 novella The Marne...
Aucassin and Nicolette - Unknown
Aucassin and Nicolette - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: General Fiction / Poetry / Romance
Aucassin and Nicolette is a medieval romance written in a combination of prose and verse called a “song-story.” Created probably in the early 13th century by an unknown French author, the work deals with the love between the son of a count and a...
The Stolen White Elephant (Version 2) - Mark Twain
The Stolen White Elephant (Version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Detective Fiction
"The Stolen White Elephant" was written by Mark Twain and published in 1882. In it, an Indian elephant, en route from India to Britain as a gift to the Queen, disappears in New Jersey. The local police department goes into high gear to solve the...
The Highwayman - H. C. BAILEY
The Highwayman - H. C. BAILEY
- Author: H. C. BAILEY
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
A romance and adventure novel, set in England during the reign of Queen Anne. The book is much unlike the author's later detective short stories. The actual book is difficult to locate and appears to have been forgotten. It is not even listed by...
The Wreck of the Golden Mary - Charles Dickens
The Wreck of the Golden Mary - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
A short story of a ship wreck in 1851 trying to round Cape Horn on its way to the California gold fields. Poignant and well written. ( Summary by JCarson )...
Coffee Break Collection 006 - Food and Drink - Various
Coffee Break Collection 006 - Food and Drink - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction
This is the sixth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for work/study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like to hear a whole story and only...
The Duke's Children - Anthony Trollope
The Duke's Children - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction
In the last of the six Palliser novels, the sudden death of his wife, Lady Glencora, leaves Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium, finding himself in charge of his three children. The eldest, Lord Silverbridge, has recently been expelled from...
A Dog of Flanders - OUIDA
A Dog of Flanders - OUIDA
- Author: OUIDA
- Genre: General Fiction
"Nello and Patrasche were left all alone in the world." So begins the poignant story of the two orphans who were to become inseparable companions. They were Nello, an orphaned youth, and Patrasche, the dog which he and his grandfather saved from...
Aunt Jane's Nieces And Uncle John - L. Frank Baum
Aunt Jane's Nieces And Uncle John - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: General Fiction
Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John picks up the continuing story of the three cousins Patsy Doyle, Beth De Graf, and Louise Merrick, and their family; the plot of the book begins three days after the wedding of Louise and her fiancé Arthur Weldon,...
Cranford (version 2) - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Cranford (version 2) - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Cranford is set in a small market town populated largely by a number of respectable ladies. It tells of their secrets and foibles, their gossip and their romances as they face the challenges of dealing with new inhabitants to their society and...
A Phantom Lover - Vernon LEE
A Phantom Lover - Vernon LEE
- Author: Vernon LEE
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A Phantom Lover is a supernatural novella by Vernon Lee (pseudonym of Violet Paget) first published in 1886. Set in a Kentish manor house, the story concerns a portrait painter commissioned by a squire, William Oke, to produce portraits of him and...
The Call of the Wild (Version 3) - Jack London
The Call of the Wild (Version 3) - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
Buck is living a happy life in California until he is sold to pay a gambling debt. Taken to the Klondike to become a sled dog, Buck must toughen up and learn the harsher rules of survival in the North. One of the first of these is how to deal with...
The Coming of Bill (or: Their Mutual Child; or: The White Hope) - P. G. Wodehouse
The Coming of Bill (or: Their Mutual Child; or: The White Hope) - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The Coming of Bill tells the story of Kirk Winfield, his marriage to Ruth, and their child called Bill. Bill's upbringing is threatened by the interference of Ruth's busybody writer aunt, Mrs Lora Delane Porter (Introduction by Wikipedia)...
Deerbrook - Harriet Martineau
Deerbrook - Harriet Martineau
- Author: Harriet Martineau
- Genre: General Fiction
A three volume novel, Deerbrook (1839) is a story of middle class country life with a surgeon hero.Like the later and more famous novel Middlemarch, Deerbrook describes the life of country people in a fictional English town. The Grey family live in...
The Will and the Way Stories - Jessie Benton FRÉMONT
The Will and the Way Stories - Jessie Benton FRÉMONT
- Author: Jessie Benton FRÉMONT
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories / *Non-fiction
Simply put, this is a book of 9 short vignettes each of which describes a different scenario which demonstrates the age old adage: 'where there's a will, there's a way'. (Summary by Roger Melin)...
The Secret Pact - Mildred A. Wirt Benson
The Secret Pact - Mildred A. Wirt Benson
- Author: Mildred A. Wirt Benson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction / General Fiction
PENNY PARKER is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only daughter of widower Anthony Parker, publisher of the "Riverview Star," Penny has been raised to...
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 1 - Eliza Haywood
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 1 - Eliza Haywood
- Author: Eliza Haywood
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
The flirtations of a rich young maiden, Miss Betsy Thoughtless with several suitors, as she alienates the right man by refusing to take the issue of marriage seriously. Because of this her guardian commits her to marriage to the wrong man, a...
Howards End - E. M. Forster
Howards End - E. M. Forster
- Author: E. M. Forster
- Genre: General Fiction
The book is about three families in England at the beginning of the twentieth century. The three families represent different gradations of the Edwardian middle class: the Wilcoxes, who are rich capitalists with a fortune made in the Colonies; the...
A Yellow Journalist - Miriam Michelson
A Yellow Journalist - Miriam Michelson
- Author: Miriam Michelson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Rhoda Massey is a young, sharp reporter for a daily newspaper in San Francisco. After proving herself an astute and fearless investigator on her first big story, she spends most of her waking hours running down leads and doing (almost) anything it...
Hilda Lessways - Arnold Bennett
Hilda Lessways - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: General Fiction
This book is the second in Bennett’s four books about life in the Five Towns (the real life Potteries in Staffordshire). It tells the story of Hilda before her marriage to Edwin Clayhanger (from the first book). Bennett explores Hilda's ambition to...
Triplanetary - E. E. Smith
Triplanetary - E. E. Smith
- Author: E. E. Smith
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Science Fiction
“Doc” E.E. Smith pretty much invented the space opera genre, and Triplanetary is a good and well-known example. Physics, time, and politics never stand in the way of a plot that gallops ahead without letup.Having earned a PhD in chemical...
Gwen Wynn - A Romance of the Wye - Thomas Mayne REID
Gwen Wynn - A Romance of the Wye - Thomas Mayne REID
- Author: Thomas Mayne REID
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Gwendoline Wynn, our heroine, is an orphan-heiress who lives on the river Wye. She will live with aunt until she comes of age and her money. Vivian Ryecroft, our hero and a captain in the Hussars, is on a leave of absence in Herefordshire, salmon...
The Sea Wolf - Jack London
The Sea Wolf - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
The Sea-Wolf is a novel written in 1904 by American author Jack London. An immediate bestseller, the first printing of forty thousand copies was sold out before publication. Of it, Ambrose Bierce wrote "The great thing—and it is among the greatest...
The Sword of Antietam - Joseph A. Altsheler
The Sword of Antietam - Joseph A. Altsheler
- Author: Joseph A. Altsheler
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
"The Sword of Antietam" tells a complete story, but it is one in the chain of Civil War romances, begun in "The Guns of Bull Run" and continued through "The Guns of Shiloh" and "The Scouts of Stonewall." The young Northern hero, Dick Mason, and his...
The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories - Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories - Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Genre: General Fiction
One of four books of short stories written in his brief career. These stories are written using African-American dialect which provides deeper insight to the culture of that time. - Summary by KIrk202...
Domestic Manners of the Americans - Frances Milton Trollope
Domestic Manners of the Americans - Frances Milton Trollope
- Author: Frances Milton Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography
Next to de Alexis de Tocquville's almost contemporary Democracy in America, Frances Trollope's work may be the most famous (or at least notorious) dissection of manners and morals of the United States. The work was a sensation on both sides of the...
The Lonely Lady of Grosvenor Square - Mrs. Henry de la PASTURE
The Lonely Lady of Grosvenor Square - Mrs. Henry de la PASTURE
- Author: Mrs. Henry de la PASTURE
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Elizabeth de la Pasture, the author of this work, is the mother of the more well known E. M. Delafield- author of Diary Of A Provincial Lady. Jeanne Marney, a country girl, comes to London to care for her ailing aunt. She is lonely and unhappy, yet...
Felix Holt, The Radical - George Eliot
Felix Holt, The Radical - George Eliot
- Author: George Eliot
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
"Harold Transome is a landowner who goes against his family's political tradition (much to his mother's distress), while Felix Holt is a sincere radical. The setting of the book, the 1832 parliament election, is used to discuss the social problems...
Under the Andes - Rex STOUT
Under the Andes - Rex STOUT
- Author: Rex STOUT
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Under the Andes was written by Rex Stout years before his creation of the immensely popular Nero Wolfe series of novels, and while perhaps his future writing style is still blossoming, certainly his knack for weaving a fantastic tale of mystery and...
Barchester Towers (version 2) - Anthony Trollope
Barchester Towers (version 2) - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction
Barchester Towers, published in 1857, is the 2nd novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire". It follows on from The Warden, set some years later, with some of the same characters. Among other things it satirises the...
The Phantom of the Opera (version 3 dramatic reading) - Gaston Leroux
The Phantom of the Opera (version 3 dramatic reading) - Gaston Leroux
- Author: Gaston Leroux
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Dramatic Readings / General Fiction
Over the years, strange things have been happening at the Paris Opéra House. The new owners, M. Moncharmin and M. Richard don't know what to do about the mysterious "Opera Ghost" demanding money, nor the tragic death of the chief scene-shifter. Now...
For Fifteen Years - Louis Ulbach
For Fifteen Years - Louis Ulbach
- Author: Louis Ulbach
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
For Fifteen Years by Louis Ulbach is the sequel to The Steel Hammer which tells the story of a poor upholsterer, Jean Mortier who is falsely accused of murder and the tragic chain of events that follow. For Fifteen Years begins in the aftermath of...
Cleek of Scotland Yard - Thomas W. HANSHEW
Cleek of Scotland Yard - Thomas W. HANSHEW
- Author: Thomas W. HANSHEW
- Genre: General Fiction
Hamilton Cleek is back - or is he? Margot, Queen of the Apaches (the notorious French criminal gang) has been released on bail and vanished, Mr. Narkom has a series of inexplicable murders to solve, there is talk of revolution in Mauravania. And...
Oliver Twist (version 2) - Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist (version 2) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction
Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. The story is about an orphan Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed...
