Drama

The Maid of Maiden Lane

by Amelia E. Barr Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
The Maid of Maiden lane is a wonderful love story in which Mrs. Barr intertwines the hot political and social issues that were occurring in …

Nostromo

by Joseph Conrad Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.6
Señor Gould is a native Costaguanan of English descent who owns the silver-mining concession in Sulaco. He is tired of the political …

Antigone

by Sophocles Read by Expatriate 4.4
A powerful artistic protest against tyranny, "Antigone" has been translated and adapted dozens of times, applied over and over thr…

The Strange Gentleman

by Charles Dickens Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
Before he became a novelist, Dickens wrote several successful plays. This one from 1836, his first, he called, “A Comic Burletta in Two Acts…

The Red and the Black

by Stendhal Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
Stendhal - a German pen-name for a French writer who hated the English. Contemporary to some of the great names of French literature like Ba…

The Last Day of a Condemned

by Victor Hugo Read by Alisson Veldhuis 3.8
A man who has been condemned to death writes down his cogitations, feelings and fears while he is waiting for his execution. He does not bet…

Joshua

by Georg Ebers Read by Ann Boulais 3.6
Hosea is a commander in Pharaoh's army... and a Hebrew. As he returns home from war, he finds that there has been a great pestilence in Egy…

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare Read by Sam Stinson 4.5
Romeo and Juliet is an early tragedy by William Shakespeare about two teenage "star-cross'd lovers" whose "untimely deaths&qu…

Philoctetes

by Sophocles Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
Sophocles' play recounts an episode from the Trojan War, in which the wily Odysseus and Achilles' son Neoptolemus travel to a remote island …

The Double

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.1
This is the story of a mild-mannered civil servant, Mr. Golyadkin, who begins to see his "doppelganger" appearing in his life (at …

Tartuffe

by Molière Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greates…

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.7
Perhaps the most controversial of Shakespeare's comedies, The Merchant of Venice tells the tale of a man, Bassanio, who has a crazy plan to …

See Tom Run

by Scott Wittenburg Read by Scott Wittenburg 4.1
Tom Grayson returns home from a quick errand to discover that his family and guests have all mysteriously disappeared. Prior to this chillin…

The Changeling

by Thomas Middleton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
The Changeling is a sensational 1622 tragicomedy by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley that comprises two intertwining plots. The first inv…

Camilla

by Frances Burney Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
Camilla is Frances Burney's third novel. It became very popular upon its publication in 1796. Jane Austen referred to it, among other novels…

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.6
The novel details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, a brother and sister growing up on the river Floss near the village of St. Oggs, evi…

Alice in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
A dramatization of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass for the stage. In this version, Alice goes…

Cinderella

by George Calderon Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
If you are expecting glass slippers and pumpkin coaches, look elsewhere... This is "a pantomime as Ibsen would have written it, if only…

The Girl with the Golden Eyes

by Honoré de Balzac Read by Martin Geeson 3.2
Listeners who like to plunge straight into a story would do well to skip the lengthy preamble. Here, Balzac the virtuoso satirist depicts th…

Dracula

by Bram Stoker Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Bram Stoker did not invent the vampire story, but he popularized it with his classic 1897 novel. In form Dracula is an epistolary novel, to…

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