Literary Fiction
The Secret Agent (Version 3)
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
Taking as his inspiration the historical accidental death by explosion of an anarchist outside the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park, Lond…
An Ideal Husband (version 2)
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Oscar Wilde
The "Ideal Husband" of the title is Sir Robert Chiltern, with his equally upright wife Lady Chiltern. He has never committed a cri…
The Town Traveller
Read by Arnold
George Gissing
The town traveller is himself a British salesman, living in a lower class part of London in the Victorian era. The story depicts his interac…
A viúva Simões
Read by Rachel Moraes
Júlia Lopes de Almeida and Júlia Lopes De Almeida
Ernestina Simões é rica, bonita, ainda jovem e viúva. Com uma filha já moça, ela vive praticamente reclus…
The Coast of Bohemia
Read by Expatriate
William Dean Howells
William Dean Howells is at his iconoclastic best in this exploration of bourgeois values, particularly in the clash between respectable soci…
The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories
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Charles Weathers Bump
A collection of offbeat stories. Some are a bit out of the ordinary as suggested by the title story about a freshwater mermaid; some are not…
Coningsby, or The New Generation
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Benjamin Disraeli
Coningsby is the first of trilogy of political novels that Disraeli published in the 1840s, and gives an insight into his views of the polit…
Prodigal Daughters
Read by Kate Follis
Joseph Hocking
A frank look at the revolt of the younger generation following World War I, the book follows the Trelawney family. The father looks eagerly …
Correio da Roça
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Júlia Lopes De Almeida
Maria ficou viúva e os credores levaram a vida de luxo e abastança em que viviam no Rio de Janeiro. E ela e as 4 filhas, educa…
The Steel Flea
Read by Expatriate
Nikolai Leskov
An 1881 comic story by Nikolai Leskov, presented in the form of a traditional skaz or folk-tale, but entirely of Leskov's invention. It tell…
El Filibusterismo (The Reign of Greed)
Read by Availle
José Rizal
The Philippines, still a Spanish colony, are more or less run by the Catholic friars, and with an iron fist.. However, here and there are po…
雁 (Gan)
Read by ekzemplaro
Ōgai Mori
語り手と同じ下宿にいた岡田は、無縁坂に住むお玉と、帽を取って挨拶をするようになった。お玉は、高利貸、末造の妾であった。ある日、青大将がお玉が飼っている紅雀を襲った。そこに岡田が通りかかり、蛇を退治してあげる。お玉は岡田と近づきになりたいと思い、末造が来ないと決まった日に、下女を帰…
The Sacred Fount
Read by skoval
Henry James
Published in 1901, The Sacred Fount delves into the interior observations and obsessions of one Englishman during a weekend gathering in the…
Seven Men
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Max Beerbohm
In order to liven up the literary history of Great Britain in the 1890s (as if Oscar Wilde, Stevenson, Kipling, Hardy, etc., were not lively…
Lodore
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Mary Shelley
The author of Frankenstein returns with her take on an Austen novel. The mother is proud, the father has many vices, yet the aristocratic na…
Cuentos Policiales
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Various
¿Por qué aparece la novela policíaca? Es el miedo, la “filosofía de la angustia” o “de la inseguridad” de la que…
Lalka (tom 2)
Read by Piotr Nater
Bolesław Prus
Drugi tom klasycznego dzieła Bolesława Prusa o miłości kupca Stanisława Wokulskiego do młodej arystokratki Izabeli Łęckiej osadzonego w szcz…
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…
Two Sides of a Question
Read by Expatriate
May Sinclair
Here are two gemlike novellas in one volume, written in May Sinclair’s clearest and cleverest prose and exploring the many ways in which a w…
Elsie Venner
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Bernard Langdon is close to earning his degree in medicine when his family finds itself in financial difficulties, forcing Langdon to interr…