Literary Fiction

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…

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…

El Filibusterismo (The Reign of Greed)

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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…

The Sacred Fount

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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

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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…

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…

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…

Two Sides of a Question

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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…

Just As I Am

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon


The murder has finally been solved. After 20 years, Humphrey Vargas came with his dog, seemingly from no where, and informed the magistrate …

Asphodel

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon


Like the Asphodel, a plant which grows far away from England, Daphne grows far away from home. In her first chance of freedom, at the age of…

De Kleine Zielen

Read by Anna Simon


Louis Couperus


De kleine zielen is het eerste gedeelte van de romancyclus De boeken der kleine zielen, die zich afspeelt in Den Haag.Fragmenten uit een rec…

Les veillées du chauffeur: contes, essais, récits de voyages

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Tristan Bernard


Tristan Bernard (1866-1947) nous emmène en route à travers la France avec cette collection de courtes vignettes et anecdotes a…

Lord Jim (version 2)

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


While it's not often described as such, "Lord Jim" can be viewed as a kind of love story whose real theme is the close bond which …

Barnaby Rudge (version 3)

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Charles Dickens


The Protestant Sir John Chester and the Catholic Geoffrey Haredale have been feuding for years. In "Romeo and Juliet" fashion, Che…

Howards End (version 3)

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E. M. Forster


Considered Forster's masterpiece and one of the best books of the 20th century, Howards End tackles social conventions of the Edwardian era.…

Martin Chuzzlewit (Version 3)

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Charles Dickens


Dickens portrayal of selfishness, in this case in the Chuzzlewit family. Old Martin has a great fortune, and everyone wants in on it, espec…

El jugador

Read by Epachuko


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


Ivan Ivanovitch trabaja como tutor de los hijos de un general ruso en horas bajas de estancia en una ciudad balneario en Alemania. Acompleja…

The Double: A Petersburg Poem (Version 2)

Read by Magda Wilde


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


In this classic novella, the life of a drab office clerk named Golyadkin begins to be haunted by his "doppelgänger," a man id…

The Untempered Wind

Read by Bruce Pirie


Joanna E. Wood


Upon publication of “The Untempered Wind” in 1894, Joanna Wood quickly rose to international prominence, becoming in the next few years the …

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