Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

The Diary of a Superfluous Man

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Ivan Turgenev


Turgenev's shy hero, Tchulkaturin, is a representative example of a Russian archetype - the "superfluous man", a sort of Hamlet no…

My Lady Ludlow

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


This novella by the acclaimed Elizabeth Gaskell follows the reminiscences and life of aristocratic Lady Ludlow, told through the eyes of one…

Rilla of Ingleside (version 3 Dramatic reading)

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Lucy Maud Montgomery


Anne of Green Gables is all grown up and married, and this is the story of her daughter “Rilla”, named for the indomitable Marilla Cuthbert …

Elizabeth and her German Garden

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Elizabeth Von Arnim


Elizabeth and Her German Garden is a novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, first published in 1898; it was very popular and frequently reprinted dur…

Dom Casmurro

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Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis


Dom Casmurro é um dos mais famosos romances escritos por Machado de Assis, publicado em 1899. Ele conta a história de Bento Sa…

Swann's Way (Version 2)

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Marcel Proust


"Swann's Way" is the first of the seven parts of Marcel Proust's great autobiographical novel "In Search of Lost Time." …

Le dernier jour d'un condamné

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Victor Hugo


Ce livre est le journal écrit par un condamné à mort dans sa dernière journée avant l’exécution, o…

Childhood

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Leo Tolstoy


Childhood, published in 1852, is the first novel in Leo Tolstoy’s autobiographical trilogy, which also includes Boyhood, and Youth. Publishe…

Demian, The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth

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Hermann Hesse


Somewhat autobiographical, this "coming of age" novel unfolds an introspective boy's formative years in pre-World War 1 Germany, f…

Marguerite de Valois

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Alexandre Dumas


A historical fiction novel set in Paris (1572) during Charles IX's reign and the French Wars of Religion. Marguerite de Valois, daughter of …

Bindle

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Herbert George Jenkins


Herbert Jenkins' most popular fictional creation was Mr. Joseph Bindle, who first appeared in a humorous novel in 1916 and in a number of se…

Eve’s Diary (version 2)

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Mark Twain


Eve's Diary is a comic short story by Mark Twain. It was first published in the 1905 Christmas issue of the magazine Harper's Bazaar, and in…

Stalky & Co.

Read by Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019)


Rudyard Kipling


Rudyard Kipling published Stalky & Co. in 1899. Set at an English boarding school in a seaside town on the North Devon coast. (The town,…

Memorias de un loco

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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol


Ingenioso cuento en forma de diario en el que seremos testigos del progresivo descenso a la locura de un funcionario ruso. Al principio se p…

Oblomov

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Ivan Goncharov


Oblomov is the best known novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Oblomov is also the central character of the nove…

Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table (version 2)

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Andrew Lang


The tales of King Arthur and his Knights are of Celtic origin. The Celts were the people who occupied Britain at the time when the history o…

The Bishop's Apron

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W. Somerset Maugham


"Canon Spratte saw himself as he thought others might see him: mediocre, pompous, self-assertive, verbose." Maugham could have add…

Chicot the Jester

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Alexandre Dumas


This sequel to Dumas' “Marguerite de Valois” begins four years after the sudden death of King Charles IX and succession of his brother Henry…

Der Grüne Heinrich (zweite Fassung)

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Gottfried Keller


Der grüne Heinrich von Gottfried Keller ist ein teilweise autobiographischer Roman, der neben Goethes Wilhelm Meister und Stifters Nach…

Satan's Diary

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Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev


"Satan's Diary", Andreyev's last work, was completed by the great Russian a few days before he died in Finland, in September, 1919…

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