Portraits of generations of family members line a great hall in the lavish home of the Pentlands, a wealthy, upper-class family who were among the first settlers in the fictional town of Durham, New England. Members of the family desperately try to keep their prestigious reputation alive while the w...
By Dorothy L. Sayers
Narrated by Graham Scott
In the third adventure of the aristocratic sleuth, an overheard conversation in a restaurant launches Lord Peter Wimsey upon an investigation into the death in 1925 of Miss Agatha Dawson: a wealthy old lady, terminally ill, but inexplicably dead a li...
"Masterman Ready, or the Wreck of the Pacific" by Capt. Frederick Marryat, follows the adventures of a devoutly Christian family (The Seagraves) and their servant (Juno) who are shipwrecked at sea and find themselves having to survive on a desert island.
The crew has abandoned them apart from an o...
The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum presented by The Online Stage.
While playing outside on the farm in Kansas, Dorothy, and Toto happen upon the Shaggy Man, who asks for directions to Butterfield. The pair is happy to show him the way, but the road splits into seven different paths and Dorothy is uns...
By Thomas Troward
Narrated by Denis Daly
Thomas Troward (1847 - 1916) was a divisional Judge in British-administered India. In his later years, he developed a new metaphysical discipline which he named Mental Science, the principles of which he expounded in a number of books.
This collection o...
This is a perfect puzzle of a detective novel published in 1926. It contains speculation about Government officials, lawyers, and police. Even if you think you’ve worked out what is happening and your mind is switched on to this sort of novel, you will be very surprised at the ending! It’s a really...
A Dusty Tomes Audio Book In Cooperation with Spoken Realms
The Campaign of Magenta and Solferino, 1859 by Colonel H. C. Wylly, CB. Late of the Sherwood Foresters, Nottinghamshire, and Derbyshire Regiment. Special Campaign Series No. 4 published by Swan Sonnenschein, 1907.
Narrated by Joseph Tabl...
Giant Spiders. Death Ray Guns. Personal Flyers. Cannibals. Sword Fights. From the fertile mind of Edgar Rice Burroughs comes the tale of A Fighting Man of Mars. Hadron of Hastor sets out to rescue a lovely kidnapped woman he believes he is in love with. Along the way, his adventures among the little...
Anne Shirley’s adventures continue with new friends and a new setting as she fulfills her lifelong dream of attending college. Phillipa Gordon, Aunt Jamesina, Roy Gardner, a houseful of cats, and others become beloved friends. Through both wonderful and painful years at Redmond, Anne comes to an imp...
Charles Dickens's Hard Times (1854) is a satirical novel, as well as a romantic one. It is a commentary on social issues of the Industrial Revolution. He sets the tale in his imaginary northern location of Coketown. Gradgrind, father of Tom and Louisa, as the superintendent of schools wants educatio...
Isaac Asimov, known primarily for his science fiction stories, was also a scientist. In cooperation with the Senior Scholastic magazine, he composed this wonderful and fascinating work of historical nonfiction.
Twenty-six far-reaching discoveries and the twenty-nine scientists who made them—from A...
War and Peace is rightly considered to be one of the most important books ever written. Leo Tolstoy's epic novel chronicles the Napoleonic Wars from the viewpoint of five noble Russian families: Rostov, Bolkonsky, Bezukhov, Drubetskoy, and Kuragin. The main story begins in 1805 with Napoleon's impen...
