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The Story of Avis
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's 1877 novel is set in a New England college town, and focuses on Avis Dobell, a professor's daughter. Avis is a ta…
Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn was the first woman writer in England to make a living by her pen, and her novel Oroonoko was the first work published in English…
The Custom of the Country (version 2)
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton's 1913 novel is a devastating critique of American upward mobility, told through the journey of Undine Spragg from fictional M…
Madame de Treymes
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton's 1907 novella explores the milieu of Americans living abroad in Paris. New Yorker John Durham travels to Paris to woo an old…
The Island
Read by Elizabeth Klett
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Written late in his career, Byron's narrative poem The Island tells the famous story of the mutiny on board the Bounty, and follows the muti…
The Fifth Queen
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Ford Madox Ford
The Fifth Queen trilogy is a series of connected historical novels by English novelist Ford Madox Ford. It consists of three novels, The Fif…
The Dead (version 2)
Read by Elizabeth Klett
James Joyce
This novella is the final story in Joyce's collection Dubliners. It describes a Christmas party given by Kate and Julia Morkan, two elderly …
Olalla
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Robert Louis Stevenson
"Olalla" was a "shilling shocker" written for the Christmas season in 1885, just before the publication of Stevenson's D…
Quicksand
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Nella Larsen
Quicksand is a 1928 novel by Nella Larsen, a writer of the Harlem Renaissance. It focuses on Helga Crane, a mixed-race woman who is a school…
The Return of the Soldier
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Rebecca West
In 1916 on an isolated country estate just outside London, Captain Chris Baldry, a shell-shocked captain suffering from amnesia, makes a bit…
Sanctuary (version 2)
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton's early novella focuses on Kate Orme, who begins the story happily in love with her fiance, only to discover that he hides a t…
Shakespeare's Sonnets (version 4)
Read by Elizabeth Klett
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's sequence of 154 sonnets deals with such themes as love, time, death, immortality, lust, and sex. The poems follow but also dep…
The Princess
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Princess is a serio-comic blank verse narrative poem, written by Alfred Tennyson, published in 1847. The poem tells the story of an hero…
Crucial Instances
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Edith Wharton
This is Edith Wharton's second published collection of short stories (1901). One of these seven stories, "Copy: A Dialogue," is w…
News From Nowhere
Read by Elizabeth Klett
William Morris
News from Nowhere (1890) is a classic work combining utopian socialism and soft science fiction written by the artist, designer and socialis…
The Greater Inclination
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Edith Wharton
This is Edith Wharton's earliest published collection of short stories (1899). Like much of her later work, they touch on themes of marriag…
Goblin Market and Other Poems
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Christina Rossetti
Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862) is British writer Christina Rossetti's first book of poetry. The title poem is her most famous work: a …
Life in the Iron Mills
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Rebecca Harding Davis
This 1861 novella was the first published work by Rebecca Harding Davis: writer, social reformer, and pioneer of literary realism. It tell…
In Memoriam A.H.H.
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam is Tennyson's elegiac tribute to his friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died in 1833 at the age of 22. Tennyson wrote this long poe…
Ophelia, the Rose of Elsinore
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Mary Cowden Clarke
This story is from Mary Cowden Clarke's multi-volume work The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines, in which she imagined the early lives of c…
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