Two girls emerge from a convent in order to marry and assume their places in post-Revolutionary French society. Louise is ruled by passion, Renée by pragmatism, and the intimate details of their trials and triumphs are revealed through their correspondence. 'Letters of Two Brides' follows two strong...
Miss Mina and the Groom' - a 'Little Novel' by Wilkie Collins
After a riding accident involving her uncle, a respected General, Mina's life takes a dark turn. A new groom with a mysterious past and unsettling talents arrives at the estate, stirring whispers of hidden secrets and dangerous motives....
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman presented by The Online Stage.
A young woman and her husband, John, a respected physician, spend a summer at a colonial mansion. John imposes a 'rest cure' on his wife when she suffers a 'nervous depression' following the birth of their child. The w...
A Dusty Tomes Audio Book In Cooperation with Spoken Realms
'The Rise of American Civilization' by Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard. In two volumes. Volume One: The Agricultural Era. The MacMillan Company 1927.
Narrated by Joseph Tabler Note: This book is ‘read as written'. It was published in...
The Man Within is Graham Greene's first published novel (1929). The story is set on England's South Coast and concerns Francis Andrews, who reluctantly became embroiled with a gang of smugglers. The novel opens with Andrews desperately fleeing over the downs and eventually reaching an isolated cotta...
The Great Game
Nineteen Golfing Stories
By P. G. Wodehouse
Narrated by Graham Scott
Nineteen of Wodehouse's funniest stories, all focusing upon the tribulations of the followers of the great mystery that is golf. Collecting the complete text of both The Clicking of Cuthbert and The Heart of...
Miss Jeromette and the Clergyman' - a 'Little Novel' by Wilkie Collins
The story is told by the clergyman to his brother as a later-life confession concerning a brush with the supernatural which he has kept a secret for many years. Before he joined the church he met and fell in love with Miss Jero...
Edmund Lester Pearson was a journalist, court reporter, and librarian. He’s considered by many to be the first real true crime author in the U.S. Here he writes about the Lizzie Borden murders, axe murders that happened at sea, the murder of a wealthy New York businessman, and two others. Several of...
In this second installment of the Salty Sister Mystery series, antique store owner Patricia Schuster has her hands full, juggling her business and her mother’s eccentricities. Elsie’s Antiques is badly in need of inventory and mom is sneaking around residential neighborhoods distributing home-grown...
THE WORLD OF 2026 A.D.
Metropolis is a classic of science-fiction that created an impact on the literary world which reverberates to this day. Its dramatic presentation of the city-world of the next century stirred the minds of readers with an unforgettable vision of a metropolis grown to Gargantu...
A Difficult Problem
By Anna Katharine Green
Narrated by Martha H. Weller
Lucy Holmes has been happily married for six months. Her husband is expected home from a business trip to Philadelphia when she receives the following cryptic telegram: "Come at once. Your husband found dead in his room t...
Patterson Greeves, a noted scientist and academic, is retiring to his family manse to write a book. But on arrival, he finds two letters, one from each of his daughters, announcing their imminent arrival. One plans to visit and the other to live with him. He panics: though a man of many accomplishme...
