General Fiction
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (version 3)
Read by Bob Neufeld
Thomas Hardy
"Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented" is a novel by Thomas Hardy, first published in 1891. It initially …
The Card
Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)
Arnold Bennett
The ‘Card’ in question is Edward Henry Machin - His mother called him ‘Denry’. This light-hearted story is of his rise from humble beginning…
The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation
Read by MaryAnn
J. S. Fletcher
Marshall Allerdyke is driving through the night from London to Hull in response to an urgent telegram from his cousin. As he nears Hull, a …
The Christmas Angel
Read by Jan MacGillivray
Abbie Farwell Brown
Disagreeable old Miss Terry spends her Christmas Eve getting rid of toys from her childhood toy box. One by one she tosses them onto the sid…
Germinal (French)
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Émile Zola
Fresque sociale qui décrit les conditions de vie des mineurs au XIXème siècle, Germinal est le treizième roman d…
The Grand Inquisitor (dramatic reading)
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Grand Inquisitor is a parable told by Ivan to Alyosha in Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880). Ivan and Alyosha …
Martin Eden
Read by Greg W.
Jack London
Martin Eden (1909) is a novel by American author Jack London, about a struggling young writer. It was first serialized in the Pacific Monthl…
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…
おくのほそ道 (Oku no Hosomichi)
Read by kaseumin
Matsuo Bashō
Oku no Hosomichi (meaning Narrow Road to Oku [the Deep North]) is a major work by Matsuo Bashō.Oku no Hosomichi was written based on a journ…
Shoes and Stockings: A Collection of Short Stories
Read by Carolyn Frances
Louisa May Alcott
Here are tales of love and war, modesty and frivolity, laughter and tears. Louisa May Alcott wrote many, many short stories. This collection…
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
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Daniel Defoe
Defoe wrote this novel after his work as a journalist and pamphleteer. By 1722, Defoe had become recognized as a novelist, with the success …
Cranford (version 2)
Read by NoelBadrian
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Cranford is set in a small market town populated largely by a number of respectable ladies. It tells of their secrets and foibles, their gos…
Mastro don Gesualdo
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Giovanni Verga
Mastro Don Gesualdo, pubblicato nel 1889, è uno tra i più conosciuti romanzi di Giovanni Verga. Narra la vicenda dell'omonimo …
Mercenary
Read by Mark Nelson
Dallas Mccord Reynolds and Mack Reynolds
Every status-quo-caste society in history has left open two roads to rise above your caste: The Priest and The Warrior. But in a society of …
Sarrasine (de)
Read by Hokuspokus
Honoré de Balzac
Auf den Festen der märchenhaften reichen Familie Lauty taucht immer wieder ein rätselhafter uralter Mann auf, bei dessen Anblick e…
The Magician
Read by Delmar H Dolbier
W. Somerset Maugham
The Magician is a novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham, originally published in 1908. In this tale, the magician Oliver Haddo, a cari…
La Comédie Humaine: 05 - Scènes de la vie de province tome 1 (15-4-43)
Read by Bernard
Honoré de Balzac
Ce n'était pas une petite tâche que de peindre les deux ou trois mille figures saillantes d'une époque, car telle est, e…
The Lovels of Arden
Read by Cate Barratt
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The novel traces the return of a young Englishwoman from several years of schooling abroad, to find that her life will not take up where she…
The House by the Lock
Read by Roger Melin
Alice Muriel Williamson
What secrets lay within the walls of the house by the lock? What secrets, if any, are held by the man who owns that mysterious house?A body …
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907-1908
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fa…