Literary Fiction
The Judgment of Eve
Read by Kirsten Wever
May Sinclair
May Sinclair was a prolific author, literary critic, and feminist activist, famous in Britain and the US in the 1910’s and 20’s. The Judgmen…
The Shadow-Line
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
In this engaging and well-crafted novella, an older man recalls how a combination of obscure personal impulses and diabolical co-incidences …
Colonel Chabert
Read by Bruce Pirie
Honoré de Balzac
The short novel “Colonel Chabert” (1832) is part of Balzac’s great life work, the sprawling novel series titled “The Human Comedy.” Chabert,…
Zum wilden Mann
Read by josvanaken
Wilhelm Raabe
Zumindest um eine Ecke gedacht erinnert die Novelle „Zum Wilden Mann“ durchaus an die den cineastischen Evergreen rund um die Feuerzangenbow…
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Read by Peter Tucker
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The novel is in eight books. The eponymous hero undergoes a journey of self-realization. The story centers upon Wilhelm's attempt to escape …
Los Nazarenos
Read by mpinedag
José Milla Y Vidaurre
Los Nazarenos es la obra cumbre de Pepe Milla. La trama describe la rivalidad entre las familias mientras colapsa la Capitanía Genera…
Barnaby Rudge
Read by Marcel Coenders
Charles Dickens
Barnaby Rudge is, naast Londen en Parijs, een van de twee historische romans van Charles Dickens. Het verhaal behandelt de Gordon oproer uit…
The Story of a Modern Woman
Read by Bruce Pirie
Ella Hepworth Dixon
“The Story of a Modern Woman” (1894) is a work of feminist social realism. In its time it was one of the most famous and influential novels …
Stopfkuchen
Read by josvanaken
Wilhelm Raabe
"Stopfkuchen", eigentlich Heinrich Schaumann, wäre in der Jetzt-Zeit wohl ein gemobbter Junge, ein Schul- und Studien"ve…
Lolly Willowes
Read by Shannon Sullivan
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Laura Willowes, forced to move from her family home due to the death of her father, endures her role as Aunt Lolly in her new home with her …
The Adventure of the Broad Arrow
Read by Laurie Banza
Morley Roberts
When a few men decide to go for looking for gold in the outback of Australia, days of extreme heat with no water and no rain in sight, make …
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern
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Various
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Mr. Moffatt
Read by Phil Benson
Chester Francis Cobb
Mr. Moffatt owns a chemist's business in suburban Sydney, Australia, where he lives with his wife, Florence, and adult daughter, Naomi. The …
Un Viaje de Novios
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Emilia Pardo Bazán
Publicada en 1881, esta novela de la condesa Pardo Bazán narra el viaje de una pareja que ha contraído un matrimonio de conven…
Parodies on Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade
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Walter Hamilton
This extract, taken from Parodies of the works of English and American Authors, vol 1, of parodies of Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade…
The Unknown Masterpiece
Read by Bruce Pirie
Honoré de Balzac
“The Unknown Masterpiece” (“Le Chef-d’œuvre inconnu”) is a novella by Honoré de Balzac, published with revisions in 1845, after earli…
La cruzada de los niños
Read by Victor Villarraza
Marcel Schwob
La cruzada de los niños, constituye una joya de la literatura universal en la que, mediante una polifonía de voces, ocho mon&o…
The Murder of Delicia
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Marie Corelli
The following slight and unelaborated sketch of a very commonplace and everyday tragedy will, I am aware, meet with the unqualified disappro…
The Rover
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Lawrence Labree and Seba Smith
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith…
The Pinafore Picture Book
Read by David Wales
W. S. Gilbert
Pinafore’s sublimely silly story is made even sillier by this (ostensibly for children) 1908 story version of the 1878 Gilbert and Sullivan …