Literature
The House of the Seven Gables
Read by Mark F. Smith
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The wrongdoing of one generation lives into the successive ones and... becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief." Hawthorne's …
Our Mutual Friend
Read by Mil Nicholson
Charles Dickens
Our Mutual Friend, the last novel completed by Charles Dickens, has many plots, twists and turns, from the murky river Thames to the gold an…
Notre Dame
Read by Ramona Deininger-Schnabel
Victor Hugo
Auch bekannt als 'Der Glöckner von Notre-Dame'. Der Roman beinhaltet mehrere Handlungsstränge, die nach und nach ineinanderflie&sz…
Dubliners
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James Joyce
Masterful short stories about life in Dublin at the turn of the century, by James Joyce. (Summary by Hugh McGuire)
The Age of Innocence
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with this 1920 novel about Old New York society. Newland Archer …
Don Quixote
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in …
A Christmas Carol
Read by Bob Neufeld
Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman & Hall on 17 December 1843. The story tells …
The Watsons
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Jane Austen
This fragment of a novel was written by Jane Austen in 1804 and remained untitled and unpublished until her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh…
Ethan Frome
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton's 1911 novel Ethan Frome tells the story of a tragic love triangle. Set in the highly symbolic wintry landscape of Starkfield,…
Les Précieuses ridicules
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Molière
Madelon et Cathos, deux jeunes provinciales, arrivent à Paris en quête d'amour et de jeux d'esprit. Gorgibus, père de Ma…
Frankenstein
Read by Ramona Deininger-Schnabel
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein oder Der moderne Prometheus ...erzählt die Geschichte des jungen Schweizers Viktor Frankenstein, der an der damals ber&uum…
The Semi-Detached House
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Emily Eden
If you're a Jane Austen fan, you'll enjoy Emily Eden's comic novels of manners, The Semi-Detached House (1859) and The Semi-Attached Couple …
The Heroes
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Charles Kingsley
The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley is a collection of three Greek mythology stories: Perseus, The Argonaut…
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Read by Mil Nicholson
Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby is a young Devonshire man of nineteen, handsome and hot headed, devoted to his sister Kate and his parents. Following the …
North and South
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Set in Victorian England, North and South is the story of Margaret Hale, a young woman whose life is turned upside down when her family relo…
Effi Briest
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Theodor Fontane
Effi Briest ist die Titelfigur des gleichnamigen Romans von Theodor Fontane, der in Buchform erstmals 1895 erschienen ist. Als Erscheinungsj…
Candide
Read by Ted Delorme
Voltaire
Candide is a relentless, brutal assault on government, society, religion, education, and, above all, optimism. Dr. Pangloss teaches his youn…
Odyssee
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Homer
Odyssee von Homer (vermutlich gegen Ende des 8. Jahrhunderts v. Chr.)Ein Meisterwerk. Gilt als eines der ältesteten erhaltenen Werke de…
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
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E. Nesbit
Edith Nesbit, the author of Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare, felt passionately that young children should enjoy Shakespeare's great works…
Dubliners
Read by Tadhg Hynes
James Joyce
Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle cl…