Literary Fiction
At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
Read by Bruce Pirie
Honoré de Balzac
The short novel “At the Sign of the Cat and Racket” was one of Balzac’s earliest fictions, first published in 1830 and substantially revised…
The Marriage Contract
Read by Bruce Pirie
Honoré de Balzac
Balzac’s novel “The Marriage Contract” (1835) is part of his “Scenes of Private Life,” which is one section of “The Human Comedy,” his great…
A Second Home
Read by Bruce Pirie
Honoré de Balzac
This novella was first published in French in 1830, with the title “La femme vertueuse” (“The virtuous woman”). In an 1842 edition, the titl…
Το μόνον της ζωής του ταξείδιον
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Georgios Vizyinos
Σε αυτό το διήγημα η φαντασία αγκαλιάζει την πραγματικότητα όπως στα παραμύθια.Ο παππούς ζει μέσα στη φαντασία του ιστορίες για βασιλοπούλες…
Der Schüdderump
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Wilhelm Raabe
Band 2 der dreibändigen Ausgabe des Romans "Der Schüdderump" von Wilhelm Raabe. Der "Schüdderump" ist die…
En la Diestra de Dios Padre
Read by Consuelo Aponte
Tomás Carrasquilla
Este cuento es un icono de la cultura antioqueña en Colombia que muestra con una rica descripción, en un lenguaje popular y c&…
Ferragus, Chief of the Dévorants
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Honoré de Balzac
Why would someone with an immaculate reputation enter a house known for vices? A young officer sets out to uncover the "secret" of…
The Ivory Tower
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Henry James
An unfinished manuscript written in ponderous, convoluted language making possible subterfuge and frankness in wealthy American society of J…
The Rover
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Lawrence Labree and Seba Smith
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith…
La Lecture
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Various
La Lecture était une revue littéraire bi-mensuelle française de la fin du 19e siècle, publiant surtout des nouve…
Jeremy At Crale
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
This 1927 work is the third and final in Walpole’s Jeremy series. (The others are Jeremy and Jeremy And Hamlet.) Jeremy’s home is in Polches…
La Lecture
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Various
La Lecture était une revue littéraire bi-mensuelle française de la fin du 19e siècle, publiant surtout des nouve…
The Lady of the Aroostook
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William Dean Howells
Lydia blood is young, beautiful, intelligent and has a wonderful singing voice. She leaves her home in Massachusetts, where she lives with h…
Abbe Mouret's Transgression
Read by Mark Leder
Émile Zola
This, the fifth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart Cycle, serves effectively as a sequel to "The Conquest of Plassans". Serge Mouret…
Cenizas
Read by Mongope
Grazia Deledda
Esta obra de la premio Novel de literatura en 1926, Grazia Deledda, nos narra la historia de Olí, una joven campesina que se enamora …
The Sense of the Past
Read by Mark Leder
Henry James
Ralph Pendrel of New York City is bequested an 18th century house in London. He travels back in time and meets an ancestor of the same name…
The Rover
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Lawrence Labree and Seba Smith
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith…
Froth
Read by Phil Benson
Armando Palacio Valdés
Clementina is losing her youth in the fashionable world of late-nineteenth century Madrid and takes a younger lover. Meanwhile her father, t…
Der Schüdderump
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Wilhelm Raabe
Band 3 der dreibändigen Ausgabe des Romans „Der Schüdderump“ von Wilhelm Raabe. Der „Schüdderump“ ist die niederdeutsche Beze…
Nicholas Nickelby
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Charles Dickens
Der junge Nikolas Nickleby muss sich Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts in England durch den Verlust seines Vaters plötzlich in einer gefä…