Literary Fiction

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

Read by Nicole Lee


Sir Philip Sidney



Arcadia is a prose work by Sir Philip Sidney, a classic of the Renaissance pastoral and a work of high romance, a fleeting vision of a lost …

The Trembling of a Leaf

Read by OCTL7


W. Somerset Maugham



A collection of short stories on the South Sea Islands, among which are the famous "Red," "Rain," and "The Fall of …

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 Mayor of Casterbridge (version 3)

Read by Alisson Veldhuis


Thomas Hardy



In a fit of drunkenness, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter to the highest bidder at a country fair. He lives with regret and…

Shirley (version 2)

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Charlotte Brontë



This work, Charlotte Bronte's second, is set in the England of the early 1800's, which was beset with political and social changes, represen…

Mademoiselle Ixe

Read by David Wales


Mary Elizabeth Hawker



This is a story by the English writer Mary Elizabeth Hawker (1848-1908) entitled Mademoiselle Ixe, by[pseudonym] Lanoe Falconer. The manuscr…

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

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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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