Literary Criticism

The Titan

by Theodore Dreiser Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.5
Cowperwood moves to Chicago with his new wife Aileen. He decides to take over the street-railway system. He bankrupts several opponents with…

Daisy Miller

by Henry James Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Daisy Miller is an 1878 novella by Henry James first appearing in Cornhill Magazine in June–July 1879, and in book form the following year. …

Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens Read by Peter John Keeble 4.4
Oliver Twist was published in 1838 as a three volume book. The novel was the first of Dickens' works to realistically portray the degradatio…

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…

The Romantic

by May Sinclair Read by Expatriate 4.4
As a simple story told, "The Romantic" is one of Sinclair’s tightest and most compelling. Charlotte Redhead, a young British secre…

Crimen y castigo

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Read by Epachuko 4.7
Obra cumbre de la literatura rusa y universal. Probablemente la más conocida de Dostoyesky. Está dividida en 6 partes y un ep&…

Dietegen

by Gottfried Keller Read by Karlsson 4.7
Die lebenslustigen Seldwyler leben seit alter Tradition in einem ständigen Streit mit ihren Nachbarn in Ruechenstein, einem finsteren u…

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Published in book form in April 1857, the novel focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her mea…

Kleider machen Leute

by Gottfried Keller Read by Stefan Schmelz 4.6
Die Erzählung “Kleider machen Leute” erschien 1874 im zweiten Band des Novellenzyklus “Die Leute von Seldwyla”.Ein arbeitsloser Schneid…

The American Language

by H. L. Mencken Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
"It was part of my daily work, for a good many years, to read the principal English newspapers and reviews; it has been part of my work…

Christmas Stories

by Charles Dickens Read by David Wales 3.6
Twenty stories originally published in the Christmas editions of the magazines “Household Words” and “All The Year Round”. Some of the stori…

Better Angel

by Richard Meeker Read by Greg W. 4.7
In 1933, Forman Brown wrote, under the pseudonym Richard Meeker, a controversial novel called Better Angel, about a young man coming to term…

To The Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf 3.8
The Ramsey family, with house guests, visit the Isle of Skye at least twice. The plot is not at all the point though, as this is a book abou…

The Wings of the Dove

by Henry James Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.2
"The Wings of the Dove," published in 1902, represents to my memory a very old--if I shouldn't perhaps rather say a very young--mo…

Niebla

by Miguel De Unamuno Read by Mongope 4.6
Niebla es una de las obras más conocidas de Unamuno. Esta “nivola”, como el propio autor la denominó quizás para difere…

The Three Sisters

by May Sinclair Read by Expatriate 4.1
Fascinated as she was by the lives of the Brontë siblings, May Sinclair loosely based her subtly sensual, quietly insurrectionary 1914 …

Our Mutual Friend

by Charles Dickens Read by Don W. Jenkins 4.6
Our Mutual Friend (written in the years 1864–65) is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, …

Notre Dame

by Victor Hugo Read by Ramona Deininger-Schnabel 4.6
Auch bekannt als 'Der Glöckner von Notre-Dame'. Der Roman beinhaltet mehrere Handlungsstränge, die nach und nach ineinanderflie&sz…

Los Miserables

by Victor Hugo Read by Mongope 4.9
En este tercer volumen aparece Marius. Mario es criado por su abuelo, éste le hace creer que su padre, un coronel del ejército…

The Good Soldier

by Ford Madox Ford Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
The Good Soldier (1915) "... is set just before World War I and chronicles the tragedies of the lives of two seemingly perfect couples.…

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