Literature
Le Mystère de la chambre jaune
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Gaston Leroux
Le mystère est grand. On a essayé de tuer mademoiselle Stangerson dans une chambre fermée de l'intérieur, aucun …
The Grey Woman
Read by Jane Greensmith
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
A "Bluebeard" story in which a young woman marries a man whom she discovers has killed his previous wives and is trying to kill he…
Robinson Crusoe (version 2)
Read by Mark F. Smith
Daniel Defoe
Shipwrecked and castaway, Daniel DeFoe’s hard-luck character is still the standard for “growing where you’re planted.” Captured by pirates, …
The Man Who Would Be King
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Rudyard Kipling
The Man Who Would Be King tells the story of two British adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afgha…
Don Quijote 2
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Don Quijote de la Mancha (ortografía y título original —1605—, El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha) es una de las ob…
The Beautiful and Damned
Read by E. Tavano
F. Scott Fitzgerald
This novel tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1920s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune; the relationship with his wife Gl…
Sense and Sensibility (version 3)
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's first published novel, focuses on the lives and loves of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. The…
Wives and Daughters (version 2)
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel was serialized in Cornhill Magazine from 1864 to 1866, and completed by her editor posthumously. It looks at …
Madame Bovary (French)
Read by Nadine Eckert-Boulet
Gustave Flaubert
Charles Bovary, médecin de campagne, veuf d'une mégère, fait lors d'une tournée la rencontre du père Roua…
Die Verwandlung
Read by Markus Wachenheim
Franz Kafka
"Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwan…
The Jungle
Read by Tom Weiss
Upton Sinclair
It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better…
Der Selbstmordverein
Read by Stephanie König
Franziska Gräfin Zu Reventlow
Ein gar nicht düsteres Trauerspiel, in dem nicht nur ein verkrachter Baron, eine schöne Witwe, ein junger Gymnasiast und seine Fre…
Wuthering Heights (version 3 dramatic reading)
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Emily Brontë
The story centers on the all-encompassing, passionate, but ultimately doomed love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, and how this un…
Jane Eyre (version 3 dramatic reading)
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Charlotte Brontë
Primarily of the bildungsroman genre, Jane Eyre follows the emotions and experiences of eponymous Jane Eyre, her growth to adulthood, and he…
The Turn of the Screw (version 2)
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Henry James
Henry James' classic ghost story comprises the written testimony of a young governess, charged with looking after two small children at an i…
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (version 3)
Read by Bob Neufeld
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novel written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was fi…
Os Sertões
Read by Leni
Euclides Da Cunha
Os Sertões é um livro brasileiro, escrito por Euclides da Cunha e publicado em 1902. Trata da Guerra de Canudos (1896-1897), n…
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 4)
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade), often shortened to Huck Finn, is a novel written by Mark Twain and published in 1884.…
Candide ou L'optimisme
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Voltaire
Candide vivait paisible et innocent chez le baron de Thunder-ten-tronckh, en Westphalie. Dans son château, le précepteur Panglo…
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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Thomas Hardy
One of the greatest English tragic novels, TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES (1891) is the story of a “pure woman” who is victimized both by convent…