Literary Fiction

A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas (version 12)

Read by Geoffrey Venin


Charles Dickens


Marley was dead, to begin with...until his ghost visits his miserly business partner, Ebenezer Scrooge, with a dire warning. Will Scrooge b…

Within The Tides

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


A self-important English philosopher and his haughty, beautiful daughter sail to the South Pacific in hope of locating the daughter's wrongl…

Bliss, and Other Stories

Read by Peter Dann


Katherine Mansfield


"(N)ot to say that they are cheerful stories; they are anything but that; they have not, however, that element of trivial discomfort so…

Thyrza

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George Gissing


Thyrza is a working class woman. Three men are in love with her. Even though she is engaged to a man of her class, who is very kind, she fal…

Harmer John; An Unworldly Story

Read by David Wales


Hugh Walpole


Hjalmar Johanson (novel, 1926) is a boyish unworldly Swedish body builder come to Walpole’s fictional cathedral town of Polchester. His name…

The Ball at Sceaux

Read by Bruce Pirie


Honoré de Balzac


The novella “The Ball at Sceaux” is part of Balzac’s great life work — the expansive fiction series titled “The Human Comedy.” The central c…

La Lecture, tome 3

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Various


La Lecture était une revue littéraire bi-mensuelle française de la fin du 19e siècle, publiant surtout des nouve…

The Guermantes Way (Le Côté de Guermantes)

Read by Michael O'Kelly


Marcel Proust


Vols. 3 and 4 of Remembrance of Things Past.The hero, Marcel, meets the duchess of Guermantes in the role of his parent's landlady. The hero…

Tales from Ariosto

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Ludovico Ariosto and Joseph Shield Nicholson


The object of the present venture is to do something to revive the interest of the ordinary English reader in Ariosto. The present volume is…

Under Western Eyes (version 2)

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


"But it is a vain enterprise for sophisticated Europe to try and understand these doings." Set in St Petersburg and Geneva, this a…

The Fortunes of Nigel

Read by Jim Locke


Sir Walter Scott


During the turbulent moment in English history involving King James 1 and 6, Nigel Olifaunt, a Scottish lord, seeks to protect his family ho…

The Judgment of Eve

Read by Kirsten Wever


May Sinclair


May Sinclair was a prolific author, literary critic, and feminist activist, famous in Britain and the US in the 1910’s and 20’s. The Judgmen…

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 13

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Various


The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

César Birotteau

Read by Bruce Pirie


Honoré de Balzac


“Rise and Fall of César Birotteau” (1837) is part of Balzac’s great novel series titled “The Human Comedy.”The story is set in Paris,…

Anthem (Version 6)

Read by Scotty Smith


Ayn Rand


A novelette set in the distant future, perhaps thousands of years. Technology has been lost and advancement suppressed. The people have eith…

Traumnovelle

Read by Hokuspokus


Arthur Schnitzler


Der Arzt Fridolin und seine Frau Albertine führen eine anscheinend glückliche Ehe, doch unter der Oberfläche gären unaus…

Barnaby Rudge (NL)

Read by Marcel Coenders


Charles Dickens


Barnaby Rudge is, naast Londen en Parijs, een van de twee historische romans van Charles Dickens. Het verhaal behandelt de Gordon oproer uit…

Parodies on Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade

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Walter Hamilton


This extract, taken from Parodies of the works of English and American Authors, vol 1, of parodies of Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade…

The Story of a Modern Woman (Version 2)

Read by Bruce Pirie


Ella Hepworth Dixon


“The Story of a Modern Woman” (1894) is a work of feminist social realism. In its time it was one of the most famous and influential novels …

In a German Pension, Version 2

Read by Peter Dann


Katherine Mansfield


Katherine Mansfield was only 22 years old when these stories were first published in book form. Mansfield was later reluctant to see them re…

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