Literary Fiction
Le storie del castello di Trezza
Read by Francesca Roma
Giovanni Verga
Un insolito «giallo» gotico, che rivela un Verga diverso e un'opera dissonante dalle sue più note. A mo’ di giallo si le…
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 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…
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…
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 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 …
Nami-ko
Read by Availle
Kenjiro Tokutomi
Nami-ko, a young woman of a noble Japanese family, has recently married the naval officer Takeo, the only heir of a friend of her father's. …
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…
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 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…
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…
The Great Gatsby (Version 3)
Read by Scotty Smith
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A novel set in the roaring 20's follows Nick Carroway, a young, single veteran turned bond salesman as he is thrust into the high society of…
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…
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 …
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…
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
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