Published 1900 onward
Crime and Punishment
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished St. Petersburg stude…
Ulysses
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James Joyce
NOTE: Because of the nature of this project, there was a bending of usual LibriVox procedures: pub-like background noise was encouraged, as…
Rainbow Valley (version 2)
Read by Karen Savage
Lucy Maud Montgomery
The story moves from Anne and Gilbert to their six children, and their new neighbours, the children of the new Presbyterian minister. - Summ…
The People of the Black Circle
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Robert E. Howard
"The People of the Black Circle" is one of the original novellas about Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. H…
This Side of Paradise
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke po…
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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James Joyce
This is James Joyce's first novel, the semi-autobiographical story of a young Irish boy who struggles with family, country, and religion to …
The Metamorphosis (version 3)
Read by Bob Neufeld
Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung, also sometimes translated as The Transformation) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in…
A Girl of the Limberlost
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Gene Stratton-Porter
A Girl of the Limberlost, a novel written by the American writer and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter, was first published in August, 1909. T…
Sons and Lovers
Read by Mark F. Smith
D. H. Lawrence
This intimate portrait of a coal-miner's family fastens on each member in turn: Walter Morel, the collier; Gertrude, his wife; and the child…
The Street of Seven Stars
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Published in 1914, this novel tells the story of Harmony Wells, an innocent and beautiful American in Austria to study violin. Harmony has t…
Laddie
Read by Bridget Gaige
Gene Stratton-Porter
Based on the author's own life, this book tells the story of "little sister". The youngest of eleven, she is unwanted in the begin…
The History of Mr. Polly
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H. G. Wells
A funny and touching account of the imaginative Mr. Polly who, bored and trapped in his conventional life, makes a U-turn –- and changes eve…
Anthem (version 2)
Read by Caden Vaughn Clegg
Ayn Rand
Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Ayn Rand, written in 1937 and first published in 1938 in England. It takes place at some unspecifie…
Michael O'Halloran
Read by Mary Anderson
Gene Stratton-Porter
The story of a plucky, optimistic newsboy, Michael O’Halloran, who has been orphaned from a young age and asks nothing of the world but to “…
The Yukon Trail
Read by Delmar H Dolbier
William Macleod Raine
The Yukon Trail: A Tale of the North (filmed as The Grip of the Yukon in 1928) is an adventure yarn from the prodigious output of William Ma…
The Old Wives' Tale
Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)
Arnold Bennett
The Old Wives' Tale is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1908. It deals with the lives of two very different sisters, Constance …
Wanted: A Husband
Read by Deborah Knight
Samuel Hopkins Adams
This serious, yet witty and hilarious, romantic comedy by Samuel Hopkins Adams is a must read/listen! From the very beginning it intrigues y…
The Efficiency Expert
Read by Delmar H Dolbier
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Our hero, Jimmy Torrance, Jr., has a hard time finding suitable employment after a brilliant (athletically, at least) college career, despit…
The Ambassadors
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
Henry James considered The Ambassadors his best, or perhaps his best-wrought, novel. It plays on the great Jamesian theme of the American ab…
An Unwilling Guest
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Grace Livingston Hill
A young society woman travels to the country to visit her aunt, only to end up as the unwilling guest of a neighboring family. The daughter …