Literary Fiction
Anthem (Version 5)
Read by Peter Kuhn
Ayn Rand
Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Russian-American writer Ayn Rand, written in 1937 and first published in 1938 in the United Kingdom…
William, An Englishman
Read by Expatriate
Cicely Hamilton
William – an Englishman is a 1919 novel by Cicely Hamilton. The novel explores the effect of the First World War on a married couple during …
Arrowsmith
Read by Lee Smalley
Sinclair Lewis
This 1926 Pulitzer Prize winning novel centers on the title character, a promising medical student who, as a doctor and following several in…
1891 Collection
Read by Bellona Times
Various
A look at the year 1891 through literature and non-fiction essays first published that year, including works by Mary E Wilkins, Sir Arthur C…
The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter
Read by Expatriate
Henry Murger and Henri Murger
As much as any other work of literature, Henri Murger’s 1851 collection of witty sketches Scènes de la vie de bohème shaped th…
A Christmas Carol (Version 11)
Read by John Van Stan
Charles Dickens
The classic Christmas story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley an…
The Landlady
Read by Yuqing
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Everything changed when Ordynov, a secluded young thinker, stepped out of his old lodgings in search of another corner. The ailing landlord …
The Dream of the Red Chamber Book II
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Xueqin Cao and Xueqin Cao 曹雪芹
The Dream of the Red Chamber (also known as The Story of the Stone) is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of China, and considered the g…
Van Oude Menschen de Dingen, die Voorbij Gaan
Read by Carola Janssen
Louis Couperus
Zoals de titel al aangeeft gaat het boek over oude mensen (en ouder worden) en de dingen die voorbijgaan. Maar niet alles gaat voorbij met h…
The Sun Also Rises, Version 2
Read by Mark Nelson
Ernest Hemingway
This first novel by Ernest Hemingway follows a group of American and British expatriates in the years following World War I as they travel f…
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (Markham translation)
Read by Expatriate
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A whimsical collection of stories about a wandering street urchin, Lazarillo de Tormes is a classic of the Spanish Golden Age, even paid hom…
De Negerhut
Read by Marcel Coenders
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Het boek vertelt over de lotgevallen van een aantal slaven in en om een plantage in de Amerikaanse staat Kentucky. Onder hen zijn Eliza en v…
Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 6
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Samuel Richardson
It tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family, It is generally regarded as Richardson'…
The Explorer
Read by OCTL7
W. Somerset Maugham
An early novel by W. Somerset Maugham about conflicting feelings of self-integrity, filial love, romantic love. Lucy Allerton and Alec MacKe…
The Day of the Beast
Read by Brian Keenan
Zane Grey
Daren Lane, a World War I veteran, returns from the battlefields of Europe to the American Midwest. In Middletown USA, he encounters a postw…
Mardi Vol. 2
Read by James K. White
Herman Melville
Mardi is Melville's first purely fictional work. In it he contemplates man's beliefs, and questions whether or not one faith has value over …
Flor de Santidad. Historia milenaria
Read by Ditirambo
Ramón Del Valle-Inclán and Ramón del Valle-Inclán
Esta historia milenaria cuenta la seducción de una ingenua pastora, Adega, por un peregrino a quien ella identifica con Dios y del qu…
The Journal of Julius Rodman
Read by Mike Pelton
Edgar Allan Poe
The Journal of Julius Rodman, Being an Account of the First Passage across the Rocky Mountains of North America Ever Achieved by Civilized M…
Audrey Craven
Read by Expatriate
May Sinclair
In May Sinclair’s remarkable first novel, Audrey Craven is a beautiful young woman who has by her idiosyncrasies acquired a thoroughly undes…
Nana
Read by Celine Major
Émile Zola
Excerpt from Introduction:"Nana" stands third in popularity among the Zola novels. It is a study of the prostitute type and it giv…