Published 1900 onward - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 5
My Friend Annabel Lee - Mary MacLane
My Friend Annabel Lee - Mary MacLane
- Author: Mary MacLane
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Published in 1903, this selection of dialogues by Mary MacLane entails a mystery of wondering who she is speaking with. Is it the statue she describes at first? Is it an imaginary friend? Is it the author’s alter-ego? Or perhaps, is it a friend she...
The Flirt - Booth Tarkington
The Flirt - Booth Tarkington
- Author: Booth Tarkington
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
Laura and Cora Madison and their younger brother Hedrick live with their parents in a Midwestern American town that is fairly bursting with Cora’s discarded and would-be beaus. Her flirtatiousness annoys the tempestuous Hedrick but not the reserved...
The Incubator Baby - Ellis Parker BUTLER
The Incubator Baby - Ellis Parker BUTLER
- Author: Ellis Parker BUTLER
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Marjorie Fielding is born premature and spends her first months of life in an incubator. Her mother is a modern, broad-minded woman eschewing old fashioned views of childrearing to embrace a scientific method. Science has its place but can it be...
A Changed Man And Other Tales - Thomas Hardy
A Changed Man And Other Tales - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Short Stories / Published 1900 onward
Eleven short stories. - Summary by david wales...
The Recording Angel - Edwin Arnold BRENHOLTZ
The Recording Angel - Edwin Arnold BRENHOLTZ
- Author: Edwin Arnold BRENHOLTZ
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
"The Recording Angel," by Edwin Arnold Brenholtz, is one of the earliest examples of an American proletarian novel, a work intended to promote social reform or political revolution among the working classes. The story's themes of economic inequality...
Senator North - Gertrude Atherton
Senator North - Gertrude Atherton
- Author: Gertrude Atherton
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
"When, Mr. President, a man, however eminent in other pursuits and whatever claims he may have to public confidence, becomes a member of this body, he has much to learn and much to endure. Little does he know of what he will have to encounter. He...
The House With The Mezzanine And Other Stories - Anton Chekhov
The House With The Mezzanine And Other Stories - Anton Chekhov
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- Genre: Short Stories / Published 1900 onward / Single Author Collections
Six short stories and a novella by the Russian master. (david wales)...
Jennie Gerhardt - Theodore DREISER
Jennie Gerhardt - Theodore DREISER
- Author: Theodore DREISER
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
This is a story of an innocent, caring, beautiful young girl from and extremely poor family who throughout her life is drawn into affairs with two different men from a much higher social class. How members of her family, the family of one of the...
1916: First Chapters Collection - Various
1916: First Chapters Collection - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
These are first chapters to books first published in 1916. Readers, following is a tentative list culled from Wikipedia's article on the year in Literature; most of the works are to be found on Project Gutenberg. - Summary by Matt Pierard...
The Third Miss Symons - F. M. MAYOR
The Third Miss Symons - F. M. MAYOR
- Author: F. M. MAYOR
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Miss Mayor tells this story with singular skill, more by contrast than by drama, bringing her chief character into relief against her world, as it passes in swift procession. Her tale is in a form becoming common among our best writers; it is...
Simon the Jester - William John Locke
Simon the Jester - William John Locke
- Author: William John Locke
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Simon de Gex, a wealthy and successful MP, is diagnosed with a terminal illness and decides to use his last few months using his wealth and influence to do good. In particular, he determines to guide his protégé and friend, Dale, away from an...
The Third Circle - Frank Norris
The Third Circle - Frank Norris
- Author: Frank Norris
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Sixteen short stories by the American novelist Benjamin Frank Norris Jr (1870-1902) who wrote predominantly in the naturalist genre. He lived and worked in San Francisco. His writing has been compared to Emile Zola, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser,...
Three Stories & Ten Poems - Ernest HEMINGWAY
Three Stories & Ten Poems - Ernest HEMINGWAY
- Author: Ernest HEMINGWAY
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The author arranged for this collection of three short stories and ten poems to be printed in a small run of 300 copies in Dijon (France.) The book entered into the public domain in 2019. - Summary by KevinS...
The Finding of Jasper Holt - Grace Livingston Hill
The Finding of Jasper Holt - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: Published 1900 onward / Christian Fiction
Jasper Holt was a neglected child. As a consequence, he grew up to be angry and independent - generally good, but not caring what others thought of him... until he met Jean Grayson, the first truly good person he ever met. He knew she was out of...
The Trail of the Hawk: a Comedy of the Seriousness of Life - Sinclair Lewis
The Trail of the Hawk: a Comedy of the Seriousness of Life - Sinclair Lewis
- Author: Sinclair Lewis
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Trail of the Hawk, narrated by Mike Vendetti aka Miketheauctioneer, is Sinclair Lewis’ second novel published under his own name. It was not at the time of release a smashing success as his later works, Babbitt, Elmer Gantry, and others, but his...
The Lady of the Basement Flat - Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
The Lady of the Basement Flat - Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
- Author: Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
- Genre: General Fiction / Published 1900 onward
A naive young girl strikes out on her own and ends up leading a double life in this engaging tale of love lost and found. Summary by Judi Mason...
A Cathedral Courtship - Kate Douglas Wiggin
A Cathedral Courtship - Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Genre: Travel Fiction / Romance / Published 1900 onward
An romantic comedy. A pretty young American girls tours English Cathedrals, with her very blue-blooded Aunt. Then boy meets girl. Boy chases girl. Boy loses girl. Boy finds girl. Finally, girl catches boy with the help of a mad bull. (Summary by Ric...
The Race Of The Swift - Edwin Carlile LITSEY
The Race Of The Swift - Edwin Carlile LITSEY
- Author: Edwin Carlile LITSEY
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Nature & Animal Fiction / Published 1900 onward
This 1905 collection is of the author’s short animal stories, some previously published in magazines. - Summary by David Wales...
O Pioneers! - Willa Sibert Cather
O Pioneers! - Willa Sibert Cather
- Author: Willa Sibert Cather
- Genre: General Fiction / Published 1900 onward
O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish immigrants in the farm country near Hanover, Nebraska, (a fictional town near Glenvil) around the turn of the 20th century. The main character, Alexandra Bergson, inherits the family...
The Position of Peggy Harper - Leonard Merrick
The Position of Peggy Harper - Leonard Merrick
- Author: Leonard Merrick
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Novel set in the shabby world of British (third-rate) theaters circa 1900. Christopher Tatham tries to survive by going from bit part to bit part, and by his uncle's charity, while hoping for a leading-man role. He meets Peggy Harper, who is in a...
The Dogs Of Boytown - Walter Alden Dyer
The Dogs Of Boytown - Walter Alden Dyer
- Author: Walter Alden Dyer
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Published 1900 onward / Single author
This collection of stories about dogs and the people they own was published in 1918. The story proceeds leisurely with much information about different breeds of dogs. The author obviously likes both boys and dogs. ( David Wales)...
A Girl of the Limberlost - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
A Girl of the Limberlost - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Author: Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
A Girl of the Limberlost, a novel written by the American writer and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter, was first published in August, 1909. The story takes place in Indiana, in and around the Limberlost Swamp, during the early 20th century. (Summary...
A Spinner in the Sun - Myrtle Reed
A Spinner in the Sun - Myrtle Reed
- Author: Myrtle Reed
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
Myrtle Reed may always be depended upon to write a story in which poetry, charm, tenderness and humor are combined into a clever and entertaining book. Her characters are delightful and she always displays a quaint humor of expression and a quiet...
Gulliver The Great And Other Dog Stories - Walter Alden Dyer
Gulliver The Great And Other Dog Stories - Walter Alden Dyer
- Author: Walter Alden Dyer
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Published 1900 onward / Single Author Collections
This 1916 book is a collection of sixteen of the author's dog stories previously published in magazines. ( David Wales)...
Liliecrona's Home - Selma Lagerlöf
Liliecrona's Home - Selma Lagerlöf
- Author: Selma Lagerlöf
- Genre: Family Life / Published 1900 onward
Liliecrona's Home was published in Sweden 1911, translated into English by Anna Harwell and published in London in 1913. The story is set in the same surroundings in the district of Värmland which Lagerlöf knew so well and used in many of her books....
The Moving Picture Girls - Laura Lee Hope
The Moving Picture Girls - Laura Lee Hope
- Author: Laura Lee Hope
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Ruth and Alice DeVere and their father Hosmer struggle to make ends meet in New York City - times are hard, even for a talented actor like Mr. DeVere. Just as he successfully auditions for a new play, an old voice affliction renders him terribly...
The Gambler - Katherine Cecil Thurston
The Gambler - Katherine Cecil Thurston
- Author: Katherine Cecil Thurston
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Clodagh, 18 years old, is the eldest daughter of Dennis Asshlin, an Irish gentleman who lives in an area of Ireland called Orristown. Dennis is passionate, proud and indebted to no one. But, Dennis has an obsession with gambling that is leading the...
Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
This intimate portrait of a coal-miner's family fastens on each member in turn: Walter Morel, the collier; Gertrude, his wife; and the children: William, Annie, Arthur, and Paul. When Mrs. Morel begins to be estranged from her husband because of his...
Peggy Raymond's School Days (or Old Girls And New) - Harriet Lummis SMITH
Peggy Raymond's School Days (or Old Girls And New) - Harriet Lummis SMITH
- Author: Harriet Lummis SMITH
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Published in 1916, this third installment with The Friendly Terrace girls places them in The Girl’s High School, with an array of new characters, and a few peripherally known from the first book. A heavier edge of drama comes through via a new...
Ulysses - James JOYCE
Ulysses - James JOYCE
- Author: James JOYCE
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
NOTE: Because of the nature of this project, there was a bending of usual LibriVox procedures: pub-like background noise was encouraged, as well as group readings; and no editing was required, so in places there may be some accidental variation from...
Caliban by the Yellow Sands - Percy MACKAYE
Caliban by the Yellow Sands - Percy MACKAYE
- Author: Percy MACKAYE
- Genre: Published 1900 onward / Drama
Caliban, the primitive, savage son of the witch Sycorax and the evil frog-tiger god Setebos, seeks to obtain knowledge and become civilized from a strange magician named Prospero and his young daughter, Miranda. Through fantastic visions (including...
Jim The Story Of A Backwoods Police Dog (And Other Stories) - Sir Charles G. D. ROBERTS
Jim The Story Of A Backwoods Police Dog (And Other Stories) - Sir Charles G. D. ROBERTS
- Author: Sir Charles G. D. ROBERTS
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Deputy Sheriff Tug Blackstock wanted a dog to help with his work. As for Jim, at first glance he might almost have been taken for a slim, young black bear rather than a dog. They were a pair, indeed, to strike the most stolid imagination, let alone...
The Getting of Wisdom (Version 2) - Henry Handel RICHARDSON
The Getting of Wisdom (Version 2) - Henry Handel RICHARDSON
- Author: Henry Handel RICHARDSON
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Henry Handel Richardson was the pseudonym of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, a writer who was born in 1870 to a reasonably well-off family which later fell on hard times. The author's family lived in various Victorian towns and from the age of...
The Lucky Piece: A Story of the North Woods - Albert Bigelow Paine
The Lucky Piece: A Story of the North Woods - Albert Bigelow Paine
- Author: Albert Bigelow Paine
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance / Published 1900 onward
While riding a stage back to the city late in the summer, a youngster had no money to spend, and so gives his lucky piece as payment to a young girl selling berries by the roadside. As time passes, in the Adirondack mountains of northern New York...
Witching Hill - E. W. Hornung
Witching Hill - E. W. Hornung
- Author: E. W. Hornung
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Published 1900 onward
The adventures of two young men, which may or may not have to do with the supernatural. - Summary by Nicholas Clifford...
Somehow Good - William Frend DE MORGAN
Somehow Good - William Frend DE MORGAN
- Author: William Frend DE MORGAN
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
A mysterious man arrives in London and, in a freak accident, gets electrocuted on an underground train and loses his memory. A young lady called Sally Nightingale feels responsible, and brings him home to her mother. But in a strange twist of fate...
The Emperor of Portugallia - Selma Lagerlöf
The Emperor of Portugallia - Selma Lagerlöf
- Author: Selma Lagerlöf
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Selma Lagerlöf was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Prize in Literature in 1909. She died in Vaermland in 1940. The Emperor of Portugallia was first Published 1914 in...
Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West - L. Frank Baum
Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: General / Published 1900 onward
After visiting Louise, Arthur and Toodlums at their ranch in Southern California, Beth and Patsy, together with Uncle John, decide to spend the winter at an hotel in the little village of Hollywood, where they get drawn into the new motion picture...
The Yellow House - E. Phillips Oppenheim
The Yellow House - E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Romance / Published 1900 onward
Vicar and his two daughters move to a small, quiet country village and soon learn that their neighbor in the yellow house holds secrets that will changeeverything they thought to be real in their lives. (Summary by Sharon Kilmer)...
Pep: The Story Of A Brave Dog - Clarence Hawkes
Pep: The Story Of A Brave Dog - Clarence Hawkes
- Author: Clarence Hawkes
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / War & Military Fiction / Published 1900 onward
This 1922 adventure story for youth and dog lovers will delight anyone with just a little suspension of disbelief. Sentimental and anthropomorphic, it’s still a good read/listen for those who would appreciate how a devoted dog saved his physician...
