Literary Criticism

Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection

by Charles Dickens Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection comprises short works previously unrecorded for LibriVox - fiction, essays, poetry, letters…

Crimen y castigo

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Read by Epachuko 4.7
Obra cumbre de la literatura rusa y universal. Probablemente la más conocida de Dostoyesky. Está dividida en 6 partes y un ep&…

To Let

by John Galsworthy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
‘The Forsyte Saga’ is the story of a wealthy London family stretching from the eighteen-eighties until the nineteen-twenties.To Let is the t…

Bunyan Characters

by Alexander Whyte Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Bunyan Characters by Alexander Whyte delves into the rich tapestry of characters from John Bunyan's seminal work, The Pilgrim's Progress. Th…

At the Foot of the Rainbow

by Gene Stratton-Porter Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
This story is about three people, two men and a woman. Jimmy, selfish and deceitful, who has shamelessly lied to, cheated, and used his dear…

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert Read by Nadine Eckert-Boulet 4.7
Charles Bovary, médecin de campagne, veuf d'une mégère, fait lors d'une tournée la rencontre du père Roua…

The Cossacks

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
The Cossacks (1863) is an unfinished novel which describes the Cossack life and people through a story of Dmitri Olenin, a Russian aristocra…

A Hero of Our Time

by Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov Read by Kevin W. Davidson 4.7
A Hero of Our Time presents a complex exploration of the human condition through the life of Grigory Pechorin, a disenchanted young officer …

Royal Highness

by Thomas Mann Read by Margaret Espaillat 4.3
Royal Highness is the story of Prince Klaus Heinrich, a member of a struggling German duchy and an exotic American heiress who comes to live…

The Lost Girl

by D. H. Lawrence Read by Tony Foster 4.3
"There is no mistake about it, Alvina was a lost girl. She was cut off from everything she belonged to."In this most under-valued …

The Country of the Pointed Firs

by Sarah Orne Jewett Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) is considered Jewett’s finest work, described by Henry James as her “beautiful little quantum of achi…

McTeague

by Frank Norris Read by Jeff Robinson 4.6
McTeague is a simple dentist who becomes infatuated with Trina, the cousin of his friend Marcus. Trina then buys a winning lottery ticket wo…

Youth, a Narrative

by Joseph Conrad Read by Chris Hughes 4.8
Youth, a Narrative is a reflective short story that captures the essence of youthful ambition and the bittersweet nature of growing up. Narr…

The Bostonians

by Henry James Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
This bittersweet tragicomedy centers on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chance…

Felix Holt, The Radical

by George Eliot Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
"Harold Transome is a landowner who goes against his family's political tradition (much to his mother's distress), while Felix Holt is …

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens Read by Bob Neufeld 4.7
A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 mill…

Liza of Lambeth

by W. Somerset Maugham Read by Hatton43 4.5
Liza of Lambeth focuses on the challenges of life facing Liza, an 18 year old factory girl who lives in the poverty of the slums of 1890s Lo…

A Dark Night's Work

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Love, murder and class commentary in Mrs Gaskell's usual brilliant style! This novel was originally serialised and published by Charles Dick…

Anna of the Five Towns

by Arnold Bennett Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
The plot centers on Anna Tellwright, daughter of a wealthy but miserly and dictatorial father, living in the Potteries area of Staffordshire…

Death in Venice

by Thomas Mann Read by Lee Smalley 4.4
Thomas Mann, author of Death in Venice (German: Der Tod in Venedig) was a winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. The main character in th…

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