General Fiction
The Grand Inquisitor (dramatic reading)
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Grand Inquisitor is a parable told by Ivan to Alyosha in Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880). Ivan and Alyosha …
Madame de Treymes
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton's 1907 novella explores the milieu of Americans living abroad in Paris. New Yorker John Durham travels to Paris to woo an old…
Shoes and Stockings: A Collection of Short Stories
Read by Carolyn Frances
Louisa May Alcott
Here are tales of love and war, modesty and frivolity, laughter and tears. Louisa May Alcott wrote many, many short stories. This collection…
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
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Daniel Defoe
Defoe wrote this novel after his work as a journalist and pamphleteer. By 1722, Defoe had become recognized as a novelist, with the success …
おくのほそ道 (Oku no Hosomichi)
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Matsuo Bashō
Oku no Hosomichi (meaning Narrow Road to Oku [the Deep North]) is a major work by Matsuo Bashō.Oku no Hosomichi was written based on a journ…
Cranford (version 2)
Read by Noel Badrian
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Cranford is set in a small market town populated largely by a number of respectable ladies. It tells of their secrets and foibles, their gos…
Mastro don Gesualdo
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Giovanni Verga
Mastro Don Gesualdo, pubblicato nel 1889, è uno tra i più conosciuti romanzi di Giovanni Verga. Narra la vicenda dell'omonimo …
Mercenary
Read by Mark Nelson
Dallas Mccord Reynolds and Mack Reynolds
Every status-quo-caste society in history has left open two roads to rise above your caste: The Priest and The Warrior. But in a society of …
The Magician
Read by Delmar H Dolbier
W. Somerset Maugham
The Magician is a novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham, originally published in 1908. In this tale, the magician Oliver Haddo, a cari…
Sarrasine (de)
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Honoré de Balzac
Auf den Festen der märchenhaften reichen Familie Lauty taucht immer wieder ein rätselhafter uralter Mann auf, bei dessen Anblick e…
The House by the Lock
Read by Roger Melin
Alice Muriel Williamson
What secrets lay within the walls of the house by the lock? What secrets, if any, are held by the man who owns that mysterious house?A body …
La Comédie Humaine: 05 - Scènes de la vie de province tome 1 (15-4-43)
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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 Lovels of Arden
Read by Cate Barratt
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The novel traces the return of a young Englishwoman from several years of schooling abroad, to find that her life will not take up where she…
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907-1908
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fa…
Napoleón en Chamartín
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Benito Pérez Galdós
Napoleón en Chamartín es la quinta novela de la primera serie de los Episodios Nacionales de Benito Pérez Galdós…
O Pioneers!
Read by Rachel Ellen
Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather
O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish immigrants in the farm country near Hanover, Nebraska, (a fictional town ne…
A Short History of the United States
Read by Allyson Hester
Edward Channing
Channing's best known work, A History of the United States, is regarded as one of the most complete and accurate accounts of American histor…
The Thing from the Lake
Read by Roger Melin
Eleanor M. Ingram
To get away from city life periodically, New Yorker Roger Locke purchases an abandoned farm house in rural Connecticut, and with the assista…
The Lady from Nowhere
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Fergus Hume
A mysterious woman is found murdered in a yellow boudoir. Who is she and where does she come from? Detective Absalom Gebb is on the case. (I…
Behind the Green Door
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Mildred A. Wirt Benson
Penny Parker is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysterie…