Literary Fiction
The Chaperon
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
What on earth is a girl to do when London society has convicted her mother of a dreadful sin and has ostracized her? If blood is thicker tha…
Van de Koele Meren des Doods
Read by Carola Janssen
Frederik Van Eeden
Hedwig Marga de Fontayne is een naïeve, labiele vrouw die haar leven lang balanceert tussen waanzin en rede, liefde en lust, verstand e…
My Life: The Story of a Provincial
Read by Expatriate
Anton Chekhov
A provincial youth of wealth and noble status refuses to employ himself in the typical occupations of the higher classes, thus acquiring a r…
The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne
Read by Lauren Randall
Ann Radcliffe
Ann Radcliffe is the founder of the gothic novel. This novel is no exception. The wicked baron murdered the good earl's father twelve years …
The Duel (version 2)
Read by Expatriate
Anton Chekhov
Known for his plays and short stories, Anton Chekhov also wrote a series of novellas, astonishing for their psychological complexity and com…
An Old Man's Love
Read by Arnold
Anthony Trollope
This was Trollope's last completed novel, and he may have acquired his sympathy for older lovers with age! A not-so-very-old man, Mr. Whittl…
Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Charlotte Turner Smith
This book was written about 150 years ahead of its time. It tells the story of Emmeline Mobwray who grows up in a dysfunctional family and h…
Taras Bulba; a Tale of the Cossacks
Read by Simon Hoare
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Taras Bulba is a romanticised historical novella by Nikolai Gogol set in Russia’s equivalent of America’s wild frontier, what is today Ukrai…
La Comédie Humaine: 10 - Scènes de la vie parisienne tome 2 (29-9-44)
Read by Bernard
Honoré de Balzac
Ce n'était pas une petite tâche que de peindre les deux ou trois mille figures saillantes d'une époque, car telle est, e…
The Siege of London
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
In this work, first published in 1883, James once again writes of an American trying to settle in England. The woman at the center, however,…
Der Prozess
Read by Availle
Franz Kafka
Aus heiterem Himmel sieht sich der Prokurist Josef K. eines Verbrechens angeklagt. Die Art der Anklage wird ihm nicht mitgeteilt, auch n&aum…
Ormond
Read by Bruce Pirie
Maria Edgeworth
Maria Edgeworth was one of the most popular writers of her time, a sharp and witty observer of society manners, and a favorite author for Ja…
Jenny
Read by Expatriate
Sigrid Undset
Jenny Winge is a Norwegian expatriate studying art in Rome, part of a Bohemian group of friends who explore the ancient City in an intoxicat…
Love Among the Artists
Read by Expatriate
George Bernard Shaw
Love Among the Artists was published in the United States in 1900 and in England in 1914, but it was written in 1881. In the ambience of chi…
A Hero of Our Time (Version 2)
Read by Expatriate
Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov
One of the iconic characters of all Russian literature, Grigori Aleksandrovich Pechorin is the ultimate “superfluous man.” An aristocratic r…
The Hero
Read by OCTL7
W. Somerset Maugham
James Parsons comes home to Little Primpton after serving in the Boer War. The whole town is proud of their new hero, who was awarded the Vi…
Nostromo (Version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
In Nostromo, Joseph Conrad has transformed an apocryphal anecdote about a sailor who got away with stealing a boat loaded with silver into a…
El crimen de Lord Arturo Savile
Read by Victor Villarraza
Oscar Wilde
En "El crimen de Lord Arthur Saville" se nos revela el Wilde en estado puro, el observador más irónico y despiadado …
Sons of the Covenant: A Tale of London Jewry
Read by Adrian Praetzellis
Samuel Gordon
Born in London's poverty-stricken and heavily Jewish East End, the Lipcott boys create their own successes in life and love. The brothers' c…
Men Without Women
Read by James Hutchisson
Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway's second collection of short fiction, first published in 1927, including many of his best-known stories, including "Hills Lik…