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The House of Mirth (1905), by Edith Wharton, is a novel about New York socialite Lily Bart attempting to secure a husband and a place in rich society. It is one of the first novels of manners in American literature, and one of the first to openly explore how American Victorian society offered little social mobility for women. (Summary from Wikipedia).

This is Edith Wharton's second published collection of short stories (1901). One of these seven stories, "Copy: A Dialogue," is written as a short play. The role of Hilda is read by Arielle Lipshaw, and the role of Ventnor by Mark F. Smith. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)

Edith Wharton's 1913 novel is a devastating critique of American upward mobility, told through the journey of Undine Spragg from fictional Midwestern Apex City to New York to Paris. Undine is determined to acquire money and position through marriage, even if it means multiple divorces. - Summary by Elizabeth Klett

The Decoration of Houses, a manual of interior design written by Edith Wharton with architect Ogden Codman, was first published in 1897. In the book, the authors denounced Victorian-style interior decoration and interior design, especially those rooms that were decorated with heavy window curtains, Victorian bric-a-brac and overstuffed furniture. They argued that such rooms emphasized upholstery at the expense of proper space planning and architectural design and were, therefore, uncomfortable and rarely used. Wharton and Codman advocated the creation of houses with rooms decorated with strong...

This collection of ten stories, first published in 1904, shows Edith Wharton dissecting some of the customs, habits and vagaries of courtship and marriage, particularly as practiced in the upper reaches of New York society at the turn of the twentieth century (two stories, however, are set in Italy). Fidelity is only one problem; others may arise from the machinations and emotions of the protagonists or outsiders. Wharton handles the questions with her usual gentle (and sometimes not so gentle) irony and curiosity about human behavior. (Summary by Nicholas Clifford)

LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Winter In Canada by Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 28, 2025 ------Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon was a Canadian writer and poet. She was "one of the first English-Canadian writers to depict French Canada in a way that earned the praise of, and resulted in her novels being read by, both anglophone and francophone Canadians." - Summary by Wikipedia

The Book of Jade is a collection of poems published anonymously in 1901 and dedicated "To the Memory of Charles Baudelaire". Its author, David Park Barnitz, died shortly thereafter, at the age of 23. - Summary by Brian Fullen

La gran novela de D. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra se ha leído, estudiado, analizado, representado, comentado a lo largo y ancho de todos los continentes desde su publicación en 1615.Conocida mundialmente y sin perder ningún valor a lo largo de los años, Cervantes nos ofrece para deleite de quien quisiere leerla su creación más excelsa. Considerada por muchos la obra más destacada de la literatura española y una de las más importantes de la literatura universal, es imposible consignar aquí una introducción sencilla.Simplemente unas líneas del prólogo para instigar al lector:«...

Esta colección de 11 (no se incluye La aventura de la caja de cartón) relatos de Arthur Conan Doyle, presenta casos difíciles como robos, asesinatos y desapariciones, culminando con la muerte de Holmes tras su enfrentamiento final con el profesor Moriarty en "El problema final". Watson narra los eventos, mostrando la genialidad deductiva de Holmes hasta su.... ¿desaparición?... - Summary by Phileas Fogg

Rainy Week by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott. A couple invite people of different walks of life to their cottage along the beach, during the rainiest week of the year. The gathered people are unknowing actors in a carefully crafted play that is created by inviting personalities that can be manipulated by the ever changing environment, or by other nearby personalities. ( Glenn Koster, Jr.) “To be indeed absolutely explicit experience has proved, with an almost chemical accuracy, that, quite regardless of "age, sex, or previous condition of servitude," this particular combination of Romantic ...

The second volume follows the principles of growing social and political ideals in the transition from colony to independent nation.

Five early short stories by Edith Wharton, American author of The House of Mirth. Includes “Kerfol,” “Mrs. Manstey's View,” “The Bolted Door,” “The Dilettante,” and “The House of the Dead Hand.”With one possible exception (“The Dilettante”), these early stories are dark tales about ghosts (canine and human), dark deeds of the past and present and how they haunt their perpetrators and victims, and narrators/central characters with a fierce determination to pursue their hearts’ desires at all costs.Even the one exception, which seems more like Wharton’s later tales of...

This autobiography of the author is a beautiful story of his journey to becoming a self-realized yogi, starting from recalling his early childhood experiences, to finding his gurus, and gaining spiritual wisdom as he progresses in his journey. It gives profound knowledge about the science of Yoga. - Summary by Ritu Aarcee

“Bunner Sisters,” like “The Age of Innocence” is set in 1870s New York, however the lives of Ann Eliza and Evelina Bunner reflect impoverished New York. The sisters run a "very small shop, in a shabby basement, in a side street already doomed to decline." Shabby as it is, the sisters are happy in their small orderly community of supportive women. The story tells of the destruction of this life, and how the once content sisters are thrown into the realistic world outside of their little shop. (Summary by Margaret)

Mary and Ned Boyne have fled their dreary life in Wisconsin for a home in rustic Dorsetshire. But you can only run so far, and some things - some secret things - may follow you. A creepy and tragic ghost story from one of the masters. (Summary by John Silence)

This is another of the fine detective mysteries written by Edgar Wallace during the early part of the twentieth century. This particular story revolves around the adventures of one Leslie Maughn who is employed as an advisor to New Scotland Yard in the days before women could become actual police officers. Supervised by her boss, Inspector Coldwell, she unravels a complex plot created by the Druze family. The other main character in the story is Peter Dawlish, a recently released prisoner from Dartmoor Prison who naturally becomes the first person suspected in a recently discovered murder. ...

Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with this 1920 novel about Old New York society. Newland Archer is wealthy, well-bred, and engaged to the beautiful May Welland. But he finds himself drawn to May's cousin Ellen Olenska, who has been living in Europe and who has returned following a scandalous separation from her husband. (Introduction by Elizabeth Klett)

In the first book of the series, intrepid teenage sleuth, Nancy Drew, searches for the true will of the late Josiah Crowley, a wealthy businessman from Nancy's hometown of River Heights. In an effort to help Josiah's impoverished relatives, Nancy risks her own safety to track the clues that will solve the mystery. The Secret of the Old Clock was written by Mildred Wirt Benson using the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. - Summary by Louise Jaeschke

Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian speculative fiction novel by the English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final completed book. Thematically, it centres on totalitarianism, mass surveillance and repressive regimentation of people and behaviours.

The Book of Changes (Traditional: 易經; Simplified: 易经; Legge: Yî King, Wade-Giles: I Ching; Pīnyīn: Yìjīng; Bopomofo: ㄧˋㄐㄧㄥ; Korean: 역경; Japanese: 易経; Vietnamese: Kinh Dịch)Fúxī (伏羲), King Tāng of Shāng (商湯), King Wén of Zhōu (周文王), his son the Duke of Zhōu (周公旦), and Confucius (孔子) have traditionally been credited as the originators of the trigrams (八卦 bāguà), hexagrams (卦 guà), hexagram statements (彖 tuàn), line statements (爻辭 yáocí), and Ten Wings (十翼) commentaries."The I Ching does not offer itself with ...