Literary Fiction
Crime and Punishment (Version 4 Dramatic Reading)
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The story tells of the inner turmoil of Rodion Raskolnikov, a student in St. Petersburg who commits murder. His psychological and moral agit…
Waverley, Volume 1
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Sir Walter Scott
Waverley is set during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in the person of Charles Edward Stuart (or…
The Beautiful and Damned (Version 2)
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
This 1922 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald chronicles the life of Anthony Patch, the only heir of millionaire Adam Patch, his grandfather. Antho…
Swann's Way (Version 2)
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Marcel Proust
"Swann's Way" is the first of the seven parts of Marcel Proust's great autobiographical novel "In Search of Lost Time." …
The Dream of the Red Chamber Book I
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Xueqin Cao and Xueqin Cao 曹雪芹
The Dream of the Red Chamber (also known as The Story of the Stone) is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of China, and considered the g…
The Pickwick Papers (version 3)
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Charles Dickens
Mr Pickwick, founder of the Pickwick Club, sets out with his three friends, Tupman, Snodgrass, and Winkle, to observe the world. They inten…
Marguerite de Valois
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Alexandre Dumas
A historical fiction novel set in Paris (1572) during Charles IX's reign and the French Wars of Religion. Marguerite de Valois, daughter of …
Sister Carrie
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Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945) was an American author of the naturalist school, known for dealing with the gritty reality of life. Sister Carr…
Hunger
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Knut Hamsun
Hunger (Norwegian: Sult) is a novel by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun and was published in its final form in 1890. The novel has been hail…
Hide and Seek
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Wilkie Collins
The artist Valentine Blyth has a very generous heart. He lovingly cares for his invalid wife, rescues a deaf orphan girl from maltreatment i…
The Aspern Papers
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Henry James
One of James’s favorite short novels, the Aspern Papers tells of the efforts of the nameless narrator to procure the papers of a famous, bu…
Sons and Lovers (Version 2)
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D. H. Lawrence
Lawrence summarised the plot of Sons and Lovers in a letter to Edward Garnett in 1912:“It follows this idea: a woman of character and refine…
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (version 3)
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Mark Twain
An adventure story for children, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a fun-filled book that shows life along the Mississippi River in the 1840s.…
Three Stories & Ten Poems
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Ernest Hemingway
The author arranged for this collection of three short stories and ten poems to be printed in a small run of 300 copies in Dijon (France.) T…
Èmile
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Emile, or On Education or Émile, or Treatise on Education (French: Émile, ou De l’éducation) was published in 1762 in F…
Father Goriot
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Honoré de Balzac
One of Balzac's most popular works, set around 1815 during the re-ascendancy of the Bourbon kings following the defeat of Napoleon. Said to …
The House of the Seven Gables (Version 2)
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of the Seven Gables is a gloomy New England mansion, haunted from its foundation by fraudulent dealings, accusations of witchcraft…
In Our Time
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Ernest Hemingway
This is the first edition of Hemingway's in our time, published in a very small run in France in 1924. And American edition was released the…
Lady Barbarina
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Henry James
Rich and beautiful American girls heading to England to find themselves noble titles through marriage, and using their New World wealth to p…
Oliver Twist (version 5 Dramatic Reading)
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Charles Dickens
When orphaned Oliver Twist asks for more food, the workhouse board are horrified and immediately pack him off to work for an undertaker, who…