Literary Fiction
The Hermit and the Wild Woman, and other Stories
Read by Winnifred Assmann
Edith Wharton
Seven short stories by Edith Wharton, American author of The House of Mirth. "The Hermit and the Wild Woman" (rather differen…
Uther and Igraine
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Warwick Deeping
This beautifully written book imagines the lives of Igraine and Uther Pendragon before the legend of Arthur began. (Summary by A. Gramour)
A Daughter of Today
Read by Bruce Pirie
Sara Jeannette Duncan
The Canadian author Sara Jeannette Duncan (aka Mrs. Everard Cotes) is today best known for her 1904 novel of Ontario life, “The Imperialist”…
Joan Haste
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H. Rider Haggard
A romantic melodrama and one of H. Rider Haggard's most poignant love stories. Joan Haste, a beautiful but illegitimate woman whose mother …
The Rainbow (Version 3)
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D. H. Lawrence
The Rainbow is the story of three generations of the Brangwen family, a sexual and religious collection of incidents that eventually shows t…
Nouvelles
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Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
Ceci est une collection de huit nouvelles de la plume de l'auteur russe Léonid Andreïev (1871-1919), traduites par Serge Persky …
The Celestial Omnibus, and Other Stories
Read by Kirsten Wever
E. M. Forster
With twenty Nobel Prize nominations to his credit, E. M. Forster may reasonably be considered one of the best writers of the 20th century – …
After the Divorce
Read by Tom Denholm
Grazia Deledda
Giovanna and Costantino Ledda are a happily married couple living with their young child in a Sardinian country village close to their exten…
At a Winter's Fire
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Bernard Capes
This is a book of stories by Bernard Capes to entertain you if you should find yourself in a cozy chair by the fireplace during the short da…
The Portrait of Mr. W. H.
Read by Rob Marland
Oscar Wilde
Wilde's short story about an attempt to uncover the identity of Mr. W. H., the dedicatee of Shakespeare's sonnets, was first published in Bl…
Martin Schüler
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Florence Roma Muir Wilson
Romer Wilson's first novel is a study in the life of Genius, a theme that would preoccupy her throughout her life. The eponymous Martin Sch…
Half-Past Bedtime - Version 2
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H. H. Bashford
The wonderful adventures of Marian after she meets the strange Mr. Jugg. "And who are you, Mr Jugg?" she inquired. "I'm the K…
Heinrich von Ofterdingen
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Novalis
Die sprichwörtliche „blaue Blume “ der Poesie hat ihren Ursprung in diesem Roman Novalis'. Novalis verwebt in diesem Bildungsroman M&a…
The Chouans (version 2)
Read by Bruce Pirie
Honoré de Balzac
“The Chouans” (1829) was the first novel published under Balzac’s own name (rather than a pen-name). It became the first book in the great w…
?לאן (Whither?)
Read by Omri Lernau
מרדכי זאב פיארברג Mordecai Ze'Ev Feierberg
Mordecai Ze’ev Feierberg was a Jewish Hebrew writer in Russia. He was attracted to enlightenment and to medieval Hebrew poetry. Feierberg wa…
The Forgery
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George Payne Rainsford James
Humphrey Scriven is a fine, genial, mercantile man, left widowed to raise three daughters and a son. Two of the daughters marry well althoug…
Doña Berta
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Leopoldo Garcia Alas
Una anciana solterona, última descendiente de los Rondaliego, cuya existencia transcurre íntegramente en un rincón de A…
Youth (Version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
This short tale was first published in book form alongside 'Heart of Darkness' and 'The End of the Tether', the three tales representing you…
Bliss, and Other Stories
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Katherine Mansfield
"(N)ot to say that they are cheerful stories; they are anything but that; they have not, however, that element of trivial discomfort so…
Tasker Jevons: The Real Story
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May Sinclair
In this May Sinclair wartime masterpiece, dashing newsman Walter Furnival is an absurdly good catch: handsome, successful, athletic, intelli…