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Mary Marston

by George MacDonald Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Written at the height of George MacDonald's literary career, the story centers around the life of a simple merchant's daughter. Mary Marston…

The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel

by Baroness Emma Orczy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The last of the famous "Scarlet Pimpernel" books, the "Triumph" tells the story of the final confrontation between the S…

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

by Victor Hugo Read by Mark Nelson 4.7
One of the great literary tragedies of all time, The Hunchback of Notre Dame features some of the most well-known characters in all of ficti…

The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne

by William John Locke Read by Simon Evers 4.7
Marcus Ordeyne is a middle aged bachelor schoolmaster who has inherited both money and a title and thus is able to lead a life of leisure. O…

Master and Man

by Leo Tolstoy Read by Brooks Jensen 4.8
A land owner, Vasili Andreevich, takes along one of his peasants, Nikita, for a short journey to another town. He wishes to get to the town …

The Awakening

by Kate Chopin Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.4
Kate Chopin's 1899 novella The Awakening is about the personal, sexual, and artistic awakening of a young wife and mother, Edna Pontellier. …

Round the Sofa

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Read by NoelBadrian 4.6
Round the Sofa (1859), is a book of stories by the lady that Charles Dickens called his “dear Scheherazade” due to her skill as a story tell…

Cloak and Dagger

by Corey Ford and Alastair MacBain 4.5
Cloak and Dagger opened over the NBC network on May 7, 1950, and had a short run through the summer on Sundays, changing to Fridays after it…

Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy Read by MaryAnn 4.7
Two love stories are set against the backdrop of high society in Tsarist Russia. Anna awakes from a loveless marriage to find herself drawn …

A Pair of Blue Eyes

by Thomas Hardy Read by Tadhg 4.6
The book describes the love triangle between a young woman, Elfride Swancourt, and her two suitors from very different backgrounds. Stephen …

The Return of the Soldier

by Rebecca West Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.5
In 1916 on an isolated country estate just outside London, Captain Chris Baldry, a shell-shocked captain suffering from amnesia, makes a bit…

Fathers and Sons

by Ivan Turgenev Read by Roger Melin 4.6
The fathers and children of the novel refers to the growing divide between the two generations of Russians, and the character Yevgeny Bazaro…

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children's novel is about orphaned Mary Lennox, who is sent to live with her uncle at Misslethwaite Manor …

The Moving Picture Girls

by Laura Lee Hope Read by Cori Samuel 4.5
Ruth and Alice DeVere and their father Hosmer struggle to make ends meet in New York City - times are hard, even for a talented actor like M…

Bartleby, the Scrivener

by Herman Melville Read by Bob Neufeld 4.6
Bartleby, the Scrivener is a thought-provoking novella that explores the complexities of human behavior and the nature of work through the e…

Mrs. Dalloway

by Virginia Woolf Read by Hannah Dormor 4.7
Clarissa Dalloway is having a party. Join her and a web of connections in exploring London, their memories and their innermost thoughts and …

Far From The Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy Read by Tadhg 4.8
Far From The Madding Crowd is Hardy's fourth novel. It centres on the lives of five characters: Gabriel Oak, Bathsheba Everdene, Mr Boldwood…

Scenes of Clerical Life

by George Eliot Read by Bruce Pirie 4.8
Scenes of Clerical Life, which appeared in book form in 1858 (after serial publication in the previous year), was the first published fictio…

The Black Museum

by Harry Alan Towers Read by Orson Welles 4.7
The Black Museum, opening in 1875, is the oldest museum in the world dedicated to recording crime. Coined in 1877 by a reporter, the name &q…

Hide and Seek

by Wilkie Collins Read by Anna Simon 4.6
The artist Valentine Blyth has a very generous heart. He lovingly cares for his invalid wife, rescues a deaf orphan girl from maltreatment i…

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