Classics (Antiquity)

Herodotus' Histories

by Herodotus Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus is considered the first work of history in Western literature. Written about 440 BC, the Histori…

The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling

by Henry Fielding Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Tom Jones is considered one of the first prose works describable as a novel. The novel is divided into 18 smaller books. Tom Jones is a foun…

The Diary of a Superfluous Man

by Ivan Turgenev Read by Martin Geeson 4.7
Turgenev's shy hero, Tchulkaturin, is a representative example of a Russian archetype - the "superfluous man", a sort of Hamlet no…

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

by Daniel Defoe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Defoe wrote this novel after his work as a journalist and pamphleteer. By 1722, Defoe had become recognized as a novelist, with the success …

A Doll's House

by Henrik Ibsen Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
A Doll's House is a groundbreaking play by Henrik Ibsen that challenges the conventions of 19th-century marriage and gender roles. At its ce…

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens Read by Mark F. Smith 4.7
This classic tale tells of an orphan, Pip, who through a series of strange circumstances first finds a trade as a blacksmith's apprentice an…

Three Short Works

by Gustave Flaubert Read by David Barnes 4.6
Here is a collection of strikingly different pieces by Flaubert: a prose poem in the voices of Death, Satan and Nero; the trials and apotheo…

The Tale of Genji

by Murasaki Shikibu Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari) is a classic work of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the …

Life in the Iron Mills

by Rebecca Harding Davis Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.5
This 1861 novella was the first published work by Rebecca Harding Davis: writer, social reformer, and pioneer of literary realism. It tell…

The Duke's Children

by Anthony Trollope Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
In the last of the six Palliser novels, the sudden death of his wife, Lady Glencora, leaves Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium, findin…

The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight

by Elizabeth Von Arnim Read by tabithat 4.4
The Princess Priscilla of Lothen Kunitz finds court life stifling and runs away to England with the elderly court librarian. Her intention i…

This Side of Paradise

by F. Scott Fitzgerald Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke po…

Emma

by Jane Austen Read by Moira Fogarty 4.8
A cautionary tale about the evils of interference, matchmaking and good intentions turned awry, Emma is the study of a young woman raised wi…

Notes from the Underground

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s short masterpiece about a ranting, slightly mad civil servant. The stylistic inventiveness, and the insights into the a…

Politics

by Aristotle Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Politics, by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, is one of the most influential texts in political philosophy. In it, Aristotle exp…

The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan Read by Joy Chan 4.6
Translated into over 100 languages, The Pilgrim's Progress is one of the most famous classics of literature. It is an allegorical novel, des…

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum Read by J. Hall 4.5
The timeless story of the Wizard Of Oz. Follow Dorothy as she leaves Kansas for Oz on a cyclone. She meets many strange, and wonderful peopl…

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans

by Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024) 4.6
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral …

The Fruit of the Tree

by Edith Wharton Read by Margaret Espaillat 4.4
The Fruit of the Tree by Edith Wharton explores the intricate lives of a wealthy mill owner and her socially progressive husband as they nav…

Tom Brown's School Days

by Thomas Hughes Read by icyjumbo (1964-2010) 4.8
Tom Brown's Schooldays is a novel by Thomas Hughes first published in 1857. The story is set at Rugby School, a public school for boys, in t…

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