Drama

Salome

by Oscar Wilde Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
The original 1891 version of the play was in French. Three years later an English translation was published. The play tells in one act the B…

They Call Me Carpenter

by Upton Sinclair Read by Tom Weiss 4.2
The story takes place in the fictional city of Western City circa 1920. It begins with a man named Billy who is attacked by a mob of ex-serv…

Peer Gynt

by Henrik Ibsen Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Peer is a dreamer, liar, excellent storyteller and an irresponsible person who avoids all problems. He uses and discards women and looks tow…

Love and Intrigue

by Friedrich Schiller Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Ferdinand is an army major and son of President von Walter, a high-ranking noble in a German duke's court, while Luise Miller is the daughte…

The Lady From the Sea

by Henrik Ibsen Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The title character in Ibsen's drama, Ellida Wangel, is married to a prosperous doctor, but feels stifled by her roles as wife and stepmothe…

Six Characters in Search of an Author

by Luigi Pirandello Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore) is the most famous and celebrated play by the Italian writer Luigi …

The Seagull

by Anton Chekhov Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
The Seagull (Russian: Чайка, Chayka) is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major plays by the Russian dramatist Anton…

Sanctuary

by Edith Wharton Read by Jacquerie 4.3
Kate Orme, shocked by the discovery of her fiance's complicity in a tragedy, and by society's willingness to overlook such transgressions, n…

Mary Stuart

by Friedrich Schiller Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Schiller's tragedy depicts the final days of Mary, Queen of Scots, who has been imprisoned by her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, because of her …

The Cherry Orchard

by Anton Chekhov Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
The Cherry Orchard is Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's last play. It premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre 17 January 1904 in a production d…

The Awakening

by Kate Chopin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
Owing to its highly personal content focused on feminine sexuality, this LibriVox edition was recorded by eight female readers. The Modern L…

Timon of Athens

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
The Life of Timon of Athens is a play by William Shakespeare about the fortunes of an Athenian named Timon (and probably influenced by the p…

The Figure in the Carpet

by Henry James Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4
The story ostensibly concerns a young literary critics who greatly admires the writer Hugh Vereker. A meeting with Vereker, however, shows h…

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Jude the Obscure is the last of Thomas Hardy's novels, begun as a magazine serial and first published in book form in 1895. Its hero Jude Fa…

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

by Christopher Marlowe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is a play by Christopher Marlow…

Ivanov

by Anton Chekhov Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Nicolai (anglicised Nicholas in this translation) Ivanov, a middle-aged public servant, is unhappy. His wife Anna, disinherited by her famil…

The Portrait of a Lady

by Henry James Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-1881 …

The Trojan Women

by Euripides Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Euripides' play follows the fates of the women of Troy after their city has been sacked, their husbands killed, and as their remaining famil…

The Tragic Bride

by Francis Brett Young Read by Roger Melin 4.1
The story centers on Gabrielle Hewish, only and lonely child of Sir Jocelyn Hewish, a loveable lush and owner of the peaceful Roscarna estat…

Charlotte Temple

by Susanna Rowson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Charlotte Temple, a cautionary tale for young women, follows the unfortunate adventures of the eponymous heroine as she is seduced by a dash…

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