Drama

The Lamplighter

by Maria Susanna Cummins Read by Bridget Gaige 4.8
Gertrude began life as an abused child in the care of Nan Grant, a cold and cruel woman. The only human character who was kind to her was th…

Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
This is book 2 of 5. An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the w…

Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
This is book 5 of 5. An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the w…

Hand and Ring

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.4
Widow Clemmens is struck down in her parlor while the town's legal professionals chat outside the courthouse down the street. An investigati…

Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
This is book 4 of 5. An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the w…

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.9
Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's classic comic romance, in which the five Bennett sisters try to find that most elusive creature: a sing…

The Return of the Soldier

by Rebecca West Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.5
In 1916 on an isolated country estate just outside London, Captain Chris Baldry, a shell-shocked captain suffering from amnesia, makes a bit…

Cloak and Dagger

by Corey Ford and Alastair MacBain 4.5
Cloak and Dagger opened over the NBC network on May 7, 1950, and had a short run through the summer on Sundays, changing to Fridays after it…

The Moving Picture Girls

by Laura Lee Hope Read by Cori Samuel 4.5
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 M…

No Thoroughfare

by Charles Dickens Read by Alan Chant 4.7
Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, with disastrous consequences in adulthood. Two associates, wishing to right th…

Notwithstanding

by Mary Cholmondeley Read by Simon Evers 4.7
The book starts with Annette Georges choosing between two fates: suicide and running away with a disreputable stranger. She is rescued by a …

Fathers and Sons

by Ivan Turgenev Read by Roger Melin 4.6
The fathers and children of the novel refers to the growing divide between the two generations of Russians, and the character Yevgeny Bazaro…

Hide and Seek

by Wilkie Collins Read by Anna Simon 4.6
The artist Valentine Blyth has a very generous heart. He lovingly cares for his invalid wife, rescues a deaf orphan girl from maltreatment i…

The Death of Ivan Ilyitch

by Leo Tolstoy Read by Laurie Anne Walden 4.7
The Death of Ivan Ilyitch is the story of a socially ambitious middle-aged judge who contracts an unexplained and untreatable illness. As I…

Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy Read by MaryAnn 4.7
Two love stories are set against the backdrop of high society in Tsarist Russia. Anna awakes from a loveless marriage to find herself drawn …

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

by Robert Tressell Read by Tadhg 4.8
Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell's cast of hypocritical Christians, ex…

Master and Man

by Leo Tolstoy Read by Brooks Jensen 4.8
A land owner, Vasili Andreevich, takes along one of his peasants, Nikita, for a short journey to another town. He wishes to get to the town …

The Black Museum

by Harry Alan Towers Read by Orson Welles 4.7
The Black Museum, opening in 1875, is the oldest museum in the world dedicated to recording crime. Coined in 1877 by a reporter, the name &q…

Ayala's Angel

by Anthony Trollope Read by tabithat 4.6
Lucy and Ayala Dormer are left penniless by the death of their parents. Ayala is taken in by their rich aunt Lady Tringle and Lucy by their …

The Doctor's Wife

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Read by Kirsten Wever 4.1
This is one of the Victorian “Sensationist” Mary Elizabeth Braddon's many novels (best known among them: “Lady Audley’s Secret”). It is extr…

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