Literature
Doctor Thorne
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Anthony Trollope
Doctor Thorne is the third of Trollope's Barsetshire novels, and unlike some of the others, has little to do with the politics and personali…
The Mayor of Casterbridge (version 2)
Read by Bruce Pirie
Thomas Hardy
Irritated and drunken, an itinerant farm-worker sells his wife and child to a stranger. Thus begins The Mayor of Casterbridge, set in rural …
Eine Ehestandstragödie
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Wilkie Collins
Eine reiche Witwe heiratet einen Gentleman ohne Vermögen. Bald schon kommt es zum Streit zwischen den Eheleuten und der Mann verschwind…
The Vicomte De Bragelonne
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Alexandre Dumas
After The Three Muskateers and Twenty Years After the adventurous story of Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan continues!The Vicomte of Br…
Der Bär
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Anton Chekhov
Der Bär ist ein Theaterstück in einem Akt von Anton Tschechow, von ihm selbst als "Scherz" bezeichnet. Jeléna Iw&…
Jude the Obscure (Version 2)
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Thomas Hardy
Eleven-year-old Jude Fawley, inspired by his teacher Mr. Phillotson, who leaves Marygreen for Christminster to take a university degree, dec…
Geschichte des dreißigjährigen Kriegs
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Friedrich Schiller
Schiller (1759 - 1805), einer der Weimarer Klassiker, bekannt als Dichter und Dramatiker, studierte zunächst Medizin, wirkte auch als P…
Daniel Deronda
Read by Becky Miller
George Eliot
In this enduring Victorian classic written in 1876, two stories weave in and out of each other: The first is about Gwendolen, one of Eliot's…
Critias
Read by Kevin Johnson
Plato
This is an incomplete dialogue from the late period of Plato's life. Plato most likely created it after Republic and it contains the famous …
Paradise Regained
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John Milton
Paradise Regained is a poem by the 17th century English poet John Milton, published in 1671. It is connected by name to his earlier and more…
Bible (KJV) 18: Job (Dramatic Reading)
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King James Version
The Book of Job is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible. It relates the story of Job, his trials at the hands of Satan, his theological disc…
Silas Marner
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George Eliot
Silas Marner (originally published in 1861): Betrayed by a beloved friend and accused of a crime he didn’t commit, awkward Silas Marner is e…
Middlemarch
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George Eliot
The book examines the role of education in the lives of the characters and how such education and study has affected the characters. Rosamon…
Emma (Version 6)
Read by Maria Therese
Jane Austen
Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. As in her other novels, Austen explores the c…
Bartleby the Scrivener, A Story of Wall Street.
Read by Bob Tassinari
Herman Melville
"Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by Herman Melville. The story first appeared, anonymously, in Pu…
The Story of Avis
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's 1877 novel is set in a New England college town, and focuses on Avis Dobell, a professor's daughter. Avis is a ta…
The Woodlanders (version 2)
Read by Tadhg
Thomas Hardy
The Woodlanders is one of Hardy's later novels, although he originally intended it as a successor to Far From The Madding Crowd. It concerns…
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Neilson Translation)
Read by M. J. Boyle
The Gawain Poet, The Gawain Poettranslated Bywilliam Allan Neilson and The Gawain Poettranslated By William Allan Neilson
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century Middle English alliterative romance outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain, a knight of…
Eugenics and Other Evils
Read by Ray Clare
G. K. Chesterton
Most Eugenists are Euphemists. I mean merely that short words startle them, while long words soothe them. And they are utterly incapable of …