Literary Fiction
The Journal of Julius Rodman
Read by Mike Pelton
Edgar Allan Poe
The Journal of Julius Rodman, Being an Account of the First Passage across the Rocky Mountains of North America Ever Achieved by Civilized M…
The Day of the Beast
Read by Brian Keenan
Zane Grey
Daren Lane, a World War I veteran, returns from the battlefields of Europe to the American Midwest. In Middletown USA, he encounters a postw…
Audrey Craven
Read by Expatriate
May Sinclair
In May Sinclair’s remarkable first novel, Audrey Craven is a beautiful young woman who has by her idiosyncrasies acquired a thoroughly undes…
De Kleine Johannes
Read by Bart de Leeuw
Frederik Van Eeden
De Kleine Johannes is een sprookje, waarin de ontwikkeling van kind tot volwassene en de worsteling met de levensraadsels centraal staan. We…
La tía Tula
Read by Mongope
Miguel De Unamuno
Gertrudis, mujer muy religiosa, decide quedarse soltera y tras la muerte de su hermana Rosa que se había casado con Ramiro dedica su …
Le storie del castello di Trezza
Read by Francesca Roma
Giovanni Verga
Un insolito «giallo» gotico, che rivela un Verga diverso e un'opera dissonante dalle sue più note. A mo’ di giallo si le…
The Trembling of a Leaf
Read by OCTL7
W. Somerset Maugham
A collection of short stories on the South Sea Islands, among which are the famous "Red," "Rain," and "The Fall of …
Nana
Read by Celine Major
Émile Zola
Excerpt from Introduction:"Nana" stands third in popularity among the Zola novels. It is a study of the prostitute type and it giv…
The Mayor of Casterbridge (version 3)
Read by Alisson Veldhuis
Thomas Hardy
In a fit of drunkenness, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter to the highest bidder at a country fair. He lives with regret and…
Nami-ko
Read by Availle
Kenjiro Tokutomi
Nami-ko, a young woman of a noble Japanese family, has recently married the naval officer Takeo, the only heir of a friend of her father's. …
Mademoiselle Ixe
Read by David Wales
Mary Elizabeth Hawker
This is a story by the English writer Mary Elizabeth Hawker (1848-1908) entitled Mademoiselle Ixe, by[pseudonym] Lanoe Falconer. The manuscr…
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
Read by Nicole Lee
Sir Philip Sidney
Arcadia is a prose work by Sir Philip Sidney, a classic of the Renaissance pastoral and a work of high romance, a fleeting vision of a lost …
Shirley (version 2)
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Charlotte Brontë
This work, Charlotte Bronte's second, is set in the England of the early 1800's, which was beset with political and social changes, represen…
An Ideal Husband (version 2)
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Oscar Wilde
The "Ideal Husband" of the title is Sir Robert Chiltern, with his equally upright wife Lady Chiltern. He has never committed a cri…
The Secret Agent (Version 3)
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
Taking as his inspiration the historical accidental death by explosion of an anarchist outside the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park, Lond…
The Town Traveller
Read by Arnold
George Gissing
The town traveller is himself a British salesman, living in a lower class part of London in the Victorian era. The story depicts his interac…
The Great Gatsby (Version 3)
Read by Scotty Smith
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A novel set in the roaring 20's follows Nick Carroway, a young, single veteran turned bond salesman as he is thrust into the high society of…
A viúva Simões
Read by Rachel Moraes
Júlia Lopes de Almeida and Júlia Lopes De Almeida
Ernestina Simões é rica, bonita, ainda jovem e viúva. Com uma filha já moça, ela vive praticamente reclus…
The Coast of Bohemia
Read by Expatriate
William Dean Howells
William Dean Howells is at his iconoclastic best in this exploration of bourgeois values, particularly in the clash between respectable soci…
Prodigal Daughters
Read by Kate Follis
Joseph Hocking
A frank look at the revolt of the younger generation following World War I, the book follows the Trelawney family. The father looks eagerly …