Literary Fiction

The Judgment of Eve

Read by Kirsten Wever


May Sinclair


May Sinclair was a prolific author, literary critic, and feminist activist, famous in Britain and the US in the 1910’s and 20’s. The Judgmen…

El rey de las montañas

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Edmond About


Con aire satírico e incluso irónico, el autor francés relata en esta novela los lances y aventuras por las que pasa un …

The Fortunes of Nigel

Read by Jim Locke


Sir Walter Scott


During the turbulent moment in English history involving King James 1 and 6, Nigel Olifaunt, a Scottish lord, seeks to protect his family ho…

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 13

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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…

The Ball at Sceaux

Read by Bruce Pirie


Honoré de Balzac


The novella “The Ball at Sceaux” is part of Balzac’s great life work — the expansive fiction series titled “The Human Comedy.” The central c…

Barnaby Rudge (NL)

Read by Marcel Coenders


Charles Dickens


Barnaby Rudge is, naast Londen en Parijs, een van de twee historische romans van Charles Dickens. Het verhaal behandelt de Gordon oproer uit…

Parodies on Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade

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Walter Hamilton


This extract, taken from Parodies of the works of English and American Authors, vol 1, of parodies of Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade…

The Story of a Modern Woman (Version 2)

Read by Bruce Pirie


Ella Hepworth Dixon


“The Story of a Modern Woman” (1894) is a work of feminist social realism. In its time it was one of the most famous and influential novels …

The Shadow-Line (Version 2)

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


In this engaging and well-crafted novella, an older man recalls how a combination of obscure personal impulses and diabolical co-incidences …

In a German Pension, Version 2

Read by Peter Dann


Katherine Mansfield


Katherine Mansfield was only 22 years old when these stories were first published in book form. Mansfield was later reluctant to see them re…

The Pinafore Picture Book: The Story Of H.M.S. Pinafore (Version 2)

Read by David Wales


W. S. Gilbert


Pinafore’s sublimely silly story is made even sillier by this (ostensibly for children) 1908 story version of the 1878 Gilbert and Sullivan …

The Adventure of the Broad Arrow: An Australian Romance

Read by Laurie Banza


Morley Roberts


When a few men decide to go for looking for gold in the outback of Australia, days of extreme heat with no water and no rain in sight, make …

Anthem (Version 6)

Read by Scotty Smith


Ayn Rand


A novelette set in the distant future, perhaps thousands of years. Technology has been lost and advancement suppressed. The people have eith…

The Murder of Delicia

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Marie Corelli


The following slight and unelaborated sketch of a very commonplace and everyday tragedy will, I am aware, meet with the unqualified disappro…

The Rover Vol. 01 No. 01

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Lawrence Labree and Seba Smith


"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith…

The Later Life

Read by Phil Benson


Louis Couperus


Set in the stifling world of turn of the century Dutch aristocracy, the second volume of the 'Books of the Small Souls' quartet, begins wher…

César Birotteau

Read by Bruce Pirie


Honoré de Balzac


“Rise and Fall of César Birotteau” (1837) is part of Balzac’s great novel series titled “The Human Comedy.”The story is set in Paris,…

Mr. Moffatt

Read by Phil Benson


Chester Francis Cobb


Mr. Moffatt owns a chemist's business in suburban Sydney, Australia, where he lives with his wife, Florence, and adult daughter, Naomi. The …

De Ellendigen - Deel 3 - Marius

Read by Marcel Coenders


Victor Hugo


De Ellendigen is een vertaling van Les Miserables, een sociale roman, met een sterke moraal. Hugo neemt het in zijn werk op voor de paria’s …

Traumnovelle

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Arthur Schnitzler


Der Arzt Fridolin und seine Frau Albertine führen eine anscheinend glückliche Ehe, doch unter der Oberfläche gären unaus…

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