Published 1900 onward - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 1
The Night Club - Herbert George Jenkins
The Night Club - Herbert George Jenkins
- Author: Herbert George Jenkins
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
This work of fiction by Herbert Jenkins (1876-1923) features one of his best-loved comic characters, the affable Cockney, Joseph Bindle. It was Bindle who conceived the idea of forming βThe Night Clubβ, where people from different walks of London...
The Pit Prop Syndicate - Freeman Wills Crofts
The Pit Prop Syndicate - Freeman Wills Crofts
- Author: Freeman Wills Crofts
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Seymour Merriman stops at the side of the road 26 miles outside Bordeaux, an action that will change his life forever. The events that follow lead him into mystery, smuggling, murder and love. Two amateur detectives try to unravel the mystery of...
Adrift in New York - Horatio Alger, Jr.
Adrift in New York - Horatio Alger, Jr.
- Author: Horatio Alger Jr.
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
John Linden is a very wealthy man. The people who should inherit his property are his nephew, Curtis Waring, his niece Florence Linden, and his long lost son - if alive. John thinks it would be best if Florence and Curtis were married, and makes it...
The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories - George Gissing
The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories - George Gissing
- Author: George Gissing
- Genre: Published 1900 onward / Single Author Collections
George Gissing was a prolific English writer of novels and short stories. Among his best known novels is The Odd Women, which was influenced by George Eliot, whose work he greatly admired. Another of his famous works, New Grub Street, entails a...
Rainbow Valley (version 2) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Rainbow Valley (version 2) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The story moves from Anne and Gilbert to their six children, and their new neighbours, the children of the new Presbyterian minister. - Summary by Karen SavageOther books in this series by this reader: Anne of Green Gables Anne of Avonlea Anne of...
Souls for Sale - Rupert Hughes
Souls for Sale - Rupert Hughes
- Author: Rupert Hughes
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Perhaps the most commercially successful Hollywood novel of the 1920s, Rupert Hughes' Souls for Sale is a direct response to contemporaneous charges of the film industry's moral laxities and predilections toward vice. Remember "Mem" Steddon, the...
Atlantis - Gerhart Hauptmann
Atlantis - Gerhart Hauptmann
- Author: Gerhart Hauptmann
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Frederick von Kammacher is a young doctor in Germany whose wife has gone insane, whose children are in a boarding school, and whose career has been destroyed by some faulty research he has done. He becomes infatuated with a teenage dancer, and on a...
Jacob's Room (version 2) - Virginia Woolf
Jacob's Room (version 2) - Virginia Woolf
- Author: Virginia Woolf
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Virginia Woolfβs third novel lacks a conventional narrative style and some say even a plot. It follows Jacob from his childhood, through his education at Cambridge and finally to his death in World War I. The prose repeatedly shifts its point of...
Short Science Fiction Collection 056 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 056 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Published 1900 onward / Fantasy Fiction
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the authorβs creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative nature of the genre inspires...
The Red Planet - William John Locke
The Red Planet - William John Locke
- Author: William John Locke
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Set during WWI in England, The Red Planet is a rich tale about the life in a little English town from the point of view of Major Duncan Meredyth, a disabled veteran of the Boer Wars. As he struggles to keep his life and the lives of those he cares...
The People of the Black Circle - Robert E. Howard
The People of the Black Circle - Robert E. Howard
- Author: Robert E. Howard
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Published 1900 onward
"The People of the Black Circle" is one of the original novellas about Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine in three parts over the September, October and November 1934 issues....
The Big Blue Soldier - Grace Livingston Hill
The Big Blue Soldier - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward / Christian Fiction
Back from the Great War, a penniless and disillusioned young soldier finds himself in the home of Miss Marilla Chadwick, a sweet old lady who is expecting her nephew for dinner. Mary Amber, Miss Marilla's neighbor, is also there. He hates girls. She...
The Book of Clever Beasts - Myrtle Reed
The Book of Clever Beasts - Myrtle Reed
- Author: Myrtle Reed
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
A humorous book, hitting off the many writers who have returned to nature and made intimate friends in the Animal World. The author describes the super-human intelligence to be found by the discerning among our kindred of the wild. All those who...
Tales of the Five Towns - Arnold Bennett
Tales of the Five Towns - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: Short Stories / Published 1900 onward
This is a selection of short stories recounting, with gentle satire and tolerant good humour, the small town provincial life at the end of the nineteenth century, based around the six towns in the county of Staffordshire, England, known as the...
Alice Adams - Booth Tarkington
Alice Adams - Booth Tarkington
- Author: Booth Tarkington
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Alice Adams chronicles the attempts of a lower middle class American midwestern family at the turn of the 20th century to climb the social ladder. The eponymous heroine is at the heart of the story, a young woman who...
The Witness for the Defence - A. E. W. Mason
The Witness for the Defence - A. E. W. Mason
- Author: A. E. W. Mason
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Romance / Published 1900 onward
Part romance, part mystery, part courtroom and quasi-courtroom drama. Young love reignites itself after a hiatus of some years. Or does it? Much can change in that time -- both to the people themselves, and to the events that shape their lives. The...
The Heart of Philura - Florence Morse Kingsley
The Heart of Philura - Florence Morse Kingsley
- Author: Florence Morse Kingsley
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
(Once again Mrs Kingsley does not shy away from the highs and lows of life in the quickly changing world of the 1900sβ¦the ageing women working to support themselves or their families, in jobs that will soon disappear...the washerwoman, butter-woman...
Mollie of the Movies - Kenneth McGaffey
Mollie of the Movies - Kenneth McGaffey
- Author: Kenneth McGaffey
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
This is a story of a girl who tries to make it big in the world of show business. McGaffey gives us the heroine's first-person account. He writes in an epistolary style and gives us a comic, slice-of-life look at a girl's attempts to become a film...
When a Man Marries - Mary Roberts Rinehart
When a Man Marries - Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
A divorced playboy hosts a dinner party complete with a stand in wife to placate his aunt who financially supports him. When his chef is hospitalized with smallpox symptoms, the fun begins. Throw in an ex-wife, a mystery, and a little romance and...
Rainbow Valley (version 3 Dramatic Reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Rainbow Valley (version 3 Dramatic Reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Dramatic Readings / Published 1900 onward
Anne Shirley is grown up and married, and her six children are off having their own adventures with the Merediths - the four children of a widowed, absent-minded minister. Whether they're hiding a runaway home girl and plotting to save her from the...
The Street of Seven Stars - Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Street of Seven Stars - Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
Published in 1914, this novel tells the story of Harmony Wells, an innocent and beautiful American in Austria to study violin. Harmony has talent and she dreams of a career in music. After her friends run out of money and return to the States,...
Blazed Trail Stories and Stories Of The Wild Life - Stewart Edward White
Blazed Trail Stories and Stories Of The Wild Life - Stewart Edward White
- Author: Stewart Edward White
- Genre: Short Stories / Westerns / Published 1900 onward
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 were popular at a time when America was losing its vanishing wilderness. He was a keen observer of the...
Pierre & Jean - Guy de Maupassant
Pierre & Jean - Guy de Maupassant
- Author: Guy de Maupassant
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
This short novelβs titular characters are brothers. An old family friend dies, leaving without explanation his entire fortune to Jean, the younger brother. Pierre, the protagonist, is puzzled, jealous, and increasingly bitter. A bequest, a secret, a...
Tales of the Fish Patrol - Jack London
Tales of the Fish Patrol - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Published 1900 onward / Single Author Collections
Wildest among the fisher-folk may be accounted the Chinese shrimp-catchers. It is the habit of the shrimp to crawl along the bottom in vast armies till it reaches fresh water, when it turns about and crawls back again to the salt. And where the tide...
Tales of the Uneasy - Violet Hunt
Tales of the Uneasy - Violet Hunt
- Author: Violet Hunt
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Published 1900 onward / Single Author Collections
Nine twisty-turny tales of tragic human drama, played out in Victorian parlors, death beds and lonely country roads. This collection of Violet Hunt writings has all the requirements for short story entertainment: flirtatious beauties, mismatched...
Christmas Eve At Swamp's End - Norman Duncan
Christmas Eve At Swamp's End - Norman Duncan
- Author: Norman Duncan
- Genre: Published 1900 onward / Single Author Collections
Four selected chapters from The Measure Of A Man; A Tale of the Big Woods, by Norman Duncan. What could be more Christmasy than: Babies, especially a homeless one; a woman who loves; a man who protects; a cold night; glittering stars; poor...
Summer - Edith Wharton
Summer - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The story is one of only two novels by Wharton to be set in New England. The novel details the sexual awakening of its protagonist, Charity Royall, and shares many plot similarities with Wharton's better known novel, Ethan Frome. Only moderately...
Gadsby - Ernest Vincent Wright
Gadsby - Ernest Vincent Wright
- Author: Ernest Vincent Wright
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Fifty-year-old John Gadsby is alarmed by the decline of his hometown, Branton Hills, and rallies the city's young people to form an "Organization of Youth" to build civic spirit and improve living standards. Gadsby and his youthful army, despite...
The Key Note - Clara Louise Burnham
The Key Note - Clara Louise Burnham
- Author: Clara Louise Burnham
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
Love blooms amid the gorgeous scenery of an island off the coast of Maine as a group of vacationers discover an abused boy and set out to rescue him. This 1921 novel is another lovely creation by author Clara Louise Burnham. - Summary by Christi...
The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories - Charles Weathers Bump
The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories - Charles Weathers Bump
- Author: Charles Weathers Bump
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Short Stories / Published 1900 onward
A collection of offbeat stories. Some are a bit out of the ordinary as suggested by the title story about a freshwater mermaid; some are not. - Summary by Amy Gramour...
The Old Wives' Tale - Arnold Bennett
The Old Wives' Tale - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The Old Wives' Tale is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1908. It deals with the lives of two very different sisters, Constance and Sophia Baines, following their stories from their youth, working in their mother's draper's shop, into...
Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land - Rosa Campbell Praed
Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land - Rosa Campbell Praed
- Author: Rosa Campbell Praed
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Following a failed love affair in England, Lady Bridget O'Hara accepts an invitation to travel to colonial Australia as companion to Lady Rosamund Tallant, the wife of the newly-appointed governor of Leichardt's Land. In Leichardt's Town, Lady...
The Rise of David Levinsky - Abraham Cahan
The Rise of David Levinsky - Abraham Cahan
- Author: Abraham Cahan
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Published 1900 onward
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 semi-autobiographical The Rise of David...
The House Behind the Cedars - Charles Waddell Chesnutt
The House Behind the Cedars - Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- Author: Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
In this, Chesnutt's first novel, he tells the tragic story of love set against a backdrop of racism, miscegenation and βpassingβ during the period spanning the antebellum and reconstruction eras in American history. And through his use of the...
The Ghost Girl - Henry Kitchell Webster
The Ghost Girl - Henry Kitchell Webster
- Author: Henry Kitchell Webster
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
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 frozen, yet perfectly preserved, body is found in the river. As the family discusses this news of the day,...
Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes - Maurice Leblanc
Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes - Maurice Leblanc
- Author: Maurice Leblanc
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Published 1900 onward
The story of an exciting test of wits between world-class thief Arsène Lupin and master detective Herlock Sholmes. Translated from the French. - Summary by Andy Harrington...
Jaffery - William John Locke
Jaffery - William John Locke
- Author: William John Locke
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The book follows the lives of Hilary, the narrator, and three of his friends whom he met at Cambridge. One soon dies - another (Adrian) writes a hugely successful novel and marries Doria. Jaffery is a larger than life character who falls in love...
Buried Alive - Arnold Bennett
Buried Alive - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The hero is Mr Priam Farll, a painter of considerable ability. He is, however, extremely shy β so shy that when his valet, Henry Leek, dies suddenly, the doctor believes the dead man to be Priam Farll and the live man the valet. The artist does not...
Mr. Britling Sees It Through - H. G. Wells
Mr. Britling Sees It Through - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Literary Fiction / War & Military Fiction / Published 1900 onward
"Mr. Britling Sees It Through" is H. G. Wells' attempt to make sense of World War I. It begins with a lighthearted account of an American visiting England for the first time, but the outbreak of war changes everything. Day by day and month by month,...
The Strange Visitation - Marie Corelli
The Strange Visitation - Marie Corelli
- Author: Marie Corelli
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Published 1900 onward
The Strange Visitation is a Christmas ghost story in the spirit of Dickens' A Christmas Carol. It was commissioned by the Strand as a supplement to its December volume of that year. - Summary by A. Gramour...
