Literary Fiction
Royal Highness
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Thomas Mann
Royal Highness is the story of Prince Klaus Heinrich, a member of a struggling German duchy and an exotic American heiress who comes to live…
Daisy Miller: A Study in Two Parts (version 2 dramatic reading)
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Henry James
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. …
The Wings of the Dove
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Henry James
"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…
The Three Sisters
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May Sinclair
Fascinated as she was by the lives of the Brontë siblings, May Sinclair loosely based her subtly sensual, quietly insurrectionary 1914 …
Father Goriot (version 2)
Read by Bruce Pirie
Honoré de Balzac
Father Goriot (Le Père Goriot), published in 1835, is widely considered to be Balzac's finest and most popular novel. It is set in Pa…
Mrs. Dalloway
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Virginia Woolf
"Mrs. Dalloway" recounts a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in the middle of June 1923. Clarissa Dalloway is a high society Lo…
Growth of the Soil
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Knut Hamsun
Growth of the Soil (Markens Grøde) is the novel by Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun which won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. …
A Passage to India
Read by Kirsten Wever
E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India (1924) is widely acclaimed as one of the hundred best literary works of 20th century. Time magazine rates…
The House Behind the Cedars
Read by James K. White
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
In this, Chesnutt's first novel, he tells the tragic story of love set against a backdrop of racism, miscegenation and “passing” during the …
The House of the White Shadows
Read by Roger Melin
B. J. Farjeon and B. L. Farjeon
Is a defense attorney bound to defend his client, or with his conscience, when he knows that the man he is defending is guilty of the charge…
Botchan
Read by Availle
Sōseki Natsume
Botchan is the story of a young math teacher from Tokyo whose first assignment takes him to a middle school in the country side. His arrival…
Oliver Twist (version 3)
Read by Peter John Keeble
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist was published in 1838 as a three volume book. The novel was the first of Dickens' works to realistically portray the degradatio…
The King of Elfland's Daughter
Read by Michele Fry
Lord Dunsany
This is a 1924 fantasy novel by Anglo-Irish writer Lord Dunsany, which became public domain in January 2020. It is widely recognized as one …
Birds of Prey
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The first part of the book builds the characters of four con men who become interconnected and attempt their schemes on each other. This boo…
Lost Illusions: A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
Read by Bruce Pirie
Honoré de Balzac
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Un grand homme de province à Paris, 1839) is the second book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy,…
Montezuma's Daughter
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H. Rider Haggard
A moving adventure story narrated by Thomas Wingfield, an Englishman, for Queen Elizabeth 1 of England about the murder of his mother, his t…
Our Mutual Friend, Version 2
Read by Don W. Jenkins
Charles Dickens
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, …
Waverley, Volume 2
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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…
Anne Severn and the Fieldings
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May Sinclair
Written in an era of cheap, formulaic romantic fiction, the nuanced, seditious, quietly erotic novels of May Sinclair stand out like literat…
Indian Summer (version 2)
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
William Dean Howells
Set in Florence's Anglo-American colony in the late 19th century, this is a romantic story of a middle-aged man, returning to the scene of h…