Literary Criticism

Crimen y castigo

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Read by Epachuko 4.7
Obra cumbre de la literatura rusa y universal. Probablemente la más conocida de Dostoyesky. Está dividida en 6 partes y un ep&…

Agnes Grey

by Anne Brontë Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
The novel tells the story of Agnes Grey, the daughter of a minister, whose family comes to financial ruin. Desperate to earn the money to ca…

The Golden Bowl

by Henry James Read by Lee Ann Howlett 3.9
The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some cri…

Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in …

Better Angel

by Richard Meeker Read by Greg W. 4.7
In 1933, Forman Brown wrote, under the pseudonym Richard Meeker, a controversial novel called Better Angel, about a young man coming to term…

The Custom of the Country

by Edith Wharton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Edith Wharton was a novelist of manners of late 19th Century New York "Society", who spent much of her life in France. In this nov…

Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens Read by Peter John Keeble 4.4
Oliver Twist was published in 1838 as a three volume book. The novel was the first of Dickens' works to realistically portray the degradatio…

Anna of the Five Towns

by Arnold Bennett Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
The plot centers on Anna Tellwright, daughter of a wealthy but miserly and dictatorial father, living in the Potteries area of Staffordshire…

After Dark

by Wilkie Collins Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
William Kerby is in danger of losing his sight, which would hit him especially hard as he is a painter. Only rest can preserve it, but a man…

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert Read by Nadine Eckert-Boulet 4.7
Charles Bovary, médecin de campagne, veuf d'une mégère, fait lors d'une tournée la rencontre du père Roua…

The Bostonians

by Henry James Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
This bittersweet tragicomedy centers on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chance…

The Burning Secret

by Stefan Zweig Read by Lee Smalley 4.7
A lonely, convalescing 12 year-old boy and his attractive mother, who is in a loveless marriage, meet a gentleman while vacationing at a Eur…

Youth

by Leo Tolstoy Read by Bill Boerst 4.4
Youth is the third installment in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, following Childhood and Boyhood. In this reflective narrative, Tol…

In the Cage

by Henry James Read by Lee Ann Howlett 4
In the Cage is a novella by Henry James, first published as a book in 1898. This long story centers on an unnamed London telegraphist. She d…

Main Street

by Sinclair Lewis Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Carol Milford is a liberal, free-spirited young woman, reared in the metropolis of Minneapolis. She marries Will Kennicott, a doctor, who is…

The House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
The House of the Seven Gables is a gloomy New England mansion, haunted from its foundation by fraudulent dealings, accusations of witchcraft…

At the Foot of the Rainbow

by Gene Stratton-Porter Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
This story is about three people, two men and a woman. Jimmy, selfish and deceitful, who has shamelessly lied to, cheated, and used his dear…

Maude

by Christina Rossetti Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.4
Maude is a novella by Christina Rossetti, written in 1850 but published posthumously in 1897. Considered by scholars to be semi-autobiograph…

The Romantic

by May Sinclair Read by Expatriate 4.4
As a simple story told, "The Romantic" is one of Sinclair’s tightest and most compelling. Charlotte Redhead, a young British secre…

Liza of Lambeth

by W. Somerset Maugham Read by Hatton43 4.5
Liza of Lambeth focuses on the challenges of life facing Liza, an 18 year old factory girl who lives in the poverty of the slums of 1890s Lo…

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