Literary Fiction
Youth (Version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
This short tale was first published in book form alongside 'Heart of Darkness' and 'The End of the Tether', the three tales representing you…
The Canterbury Tales (Middle English)
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Chaucer's famous and important work is predicated upon the premise that a group of Christian folks from various occupations, familiar in the…
Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 3, May 1906
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Various
"Mother Earth was an American anarchist journal that described itself as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literat…
Limbo
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Aldous Huxley
This is Aldous Huxley's first collection of short stories, which consists of 6 stories and a play.Characters in the play, "Happy Famili…
Chance (version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
"You are the expert in the psychological wilderness," the nominal narrator of this engaging tale says at one point to Marlow, who …
The Duchess of Langeais
Read by Bruce Pirie
Honoré de Balzac
“The Duchess of Langeais” (1834) is part of Balzac’s great life’s work, the sprawling novel series called “The Human Comedy.” This novel is …
Traumnovelle
Read by Hokuspokus
Arthur Schnitzler
Der Arzt Fridolin und seine Frau Albertine führen eine anscheinend glückliche Ehe, doch unter der Oberfläche gären unaus…
Hamlet (Spanish)
Read by Victor Villarraza
William Shakespeare
La tragedia de Hamlet, príncipe de Dinamarca (título original en inglés: The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denm…
Fire - Flowers
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E. Pauline Johnson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Fire - Flowers by E. Pauline Johnson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 18,…
Out of Bohemia: A Story of Paris Student-Life
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Gertrude Christian Fosdick
Beryl Carrington is a naïve young American artist following her ideals to Paris, where she meets three young men, all also artists and …
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 12
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Various
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life, Volume 2
Read by Anne Erickson
Margaret O. Oliphant
Catherine Vernon has a firm hand on her family and on the family business. Her plans for her young protege Edward, whom she loves like a son…
A Woman Of Yesterday
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Caroline Atwater Mason
Anna is the daughter of a clergyman in a small town in Vermont. She is very happy with her lot. But when she goes to nurse a woman in the bi…
Kleine Dorrit
Read by Marcel Coenders
Charles Dickens
De familie Dorrit verblijft door schulden belast meer dan 20 jaar in de schuldengevangenis de Marshalsea in Londen. Zullen zij ontlast worde…
De Kermis der IJdelheid
Read by Marcel Coenders
William Makepeace Thackeray
"Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero" is een in de jaren 1847-1848 gepubliceerde roman van William Makepeace Thackeray, een satire…
The Huguenot: A Tale of the French Protestants
Read by Lynne T
George Payne Rainsford James
The time of French king Louis XIV was a time of religious conflict. His father, Louis XIII had tried to suppress the teachings and followers…
Small Souls
Read by Phil Benson
Louis Couperus
Constance van der Welcke returns to the Hague and the bosom of her family after a twenty year exile caused by a marital indiscretion and div…
Tales of Hearsay
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
In the time of Napoleon, a thoughtful and romantic young Russian officer finds himself asked to do something unthinkable. In 1868, a Polish …
Typhoon and Other Stories
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
An impossibly imperturbable old sea captain, with two hundred Chinese labourers aboard his steamship, faces a terrifying typhoon for the fir…
A Man Could Stand Up
Read by Peter Dann
Ford Madox Ford
'A Man Could Stand Up' is the third, and culminating, part of Ford Madox Ford's 'Parade's End' tetralogy of novels, which begins with 'Some …