Drama

Le Père Goriot

by Honoré de Balzac Read by Bernard 4.8
Le Père Goriot est un roman d’Honoré de Balzac, écrit en 1834, dont la publication débute dans la Revue de Paris…

The Flood

by Émile Zola Read by R. S. Steinberg 4.7
A well-to-do French farm family is destroyed by a flood. The story, thrilling to the very end, is told from the point of view of the family…

Educide

by S. Lawrence Parrish Read by S. Lawrence Parrish 4.3
Meet Avery Carmichael, student-teacher. This year he's teamed up with Mr. Samuel Petersen, veteran teacher. Avery is about to get an educati…

Ben Hur

by Lew Wallace Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
In this dramatic reading of the classic epic Ben Hur, rediscover the wonder of three wise men who travel through the wilderness together. Th…

Cymbeline

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Cymbeline is one of Shakespeare's late romances, which (like The Tempest and The Winter's Tale) combines comedy and tragedy. Imogen, the dau…

Hans of Iceland

by Victor Hugo Read by Sonia 4.7
Hans of Iceland was written in 1821 and is the very first novel written by young Victor, years before he became the great Hugo. It has all t…

Robert Falconer

by George MacDonald Read by Kenneth R. Morefield 4.5
Robert Falconer follows the journey of a young man whose life is shaped by the love of music and the struggles of faith. Set against the bac…

Phaedrus

by Plato Read by Martin Geeson 4.3
“For there is no light of justice or temperance, or any of the higher ideas which are precious to souls, in the earthly copies of them: they…

King Lear

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
King Lear is widely held as the greatest of Shakespeare's tragedies; to some, it is the greatest play ever written. King Lear abdicates the …

Armadale

by Wilkie Collins Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
The novel has a convoluted plot about two distant cousins both named Allan Armadale. The father of one had murdered the father of the other …

The Dead

by James Joyce Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.4
This novella is the final story in Joyce's collection Dubliners. It describes a Christmas party given by Kate and Julia Morkan, two elderly …

Oedipus at Colonus

by Sophocles Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
This is the second installment in Sophocles's Theban Plays that chronicles the tragic fates of Oedipus and his family. After fulfilling the…

Uncle Vanya

by Anton Chekhov Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Uncle Vanya (subtitled “Scenes From Country Life”) is a tragicomedy by Anton Chekhov. It is set on the failing country estate of a retired p…

The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde Read by John Gonzalez 4.5
Dorian Gray, a young man of wealth and stature in late 1800's London, meets Lord Henry Wotton while posing for a portrait by his friend Basi…

Farewell

by Honoré de Balzac Read by Martin Geeson 4.4
In his startling and tragic novella Farewell (‘Adieu’), Balzac adds to the 19th century’s literature of the hysterical woman: sequestered, c…

The First Violin

by Jessie Fothergill Read by Sandra G 4.4
May Wedderburn is a quiet provincial girl, living in small and seemingly boring Skernford. Underneath the dull exterior, there is mystery, s…

All's Well That Ends Well

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Despite its optimistic title, Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well has often been considered a "problem play." Ostensibly a com…

King Lear

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The Tragedy of King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The title character descends into madness after foolishly disposing of his est…

Medea

by Euripides Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Euripides' tragedy focuses on the disintegration of the relationship between Jason, the hero who captured the Golden Fleece, and Medea, the …

Words At War

by Hilary Aidan Saint George Saunders, Clark Lee, Boris Voyetekhov, Ralph Parker, C.S. Forester, Robert St. John, Gwen Dew, Charles Spalding, Otis Carney, George Beurling, Leslie Roberts, Fred Herman, Margaret Buell Wilder, Jean Helion, Agnes Smedley, Mark Murphy, Etta Shiber, Corey Ford, Frederick B. Watt, Ernie Pyle, John Mason Brown, Michael Padev, Herbert L. Matthews, Harry Edward Maule, Carlos Peña Romulo, Frank Laskier, Hendrik Willem van Loon, Otto Zoff, Tai-yi Lin, Frederick J. Bell, Robert Goffin, Rackham Holt, Taro Yashima, Selden Menefee, Vicki Baum, George W. Gray, Konrad Heiden, John Hersey, Anna Louise Strong, Vercors, Lawrance Roger Thompson, H. E. Bates, George Creel, Donald Hough, Bernt Balchen, James Norman Hall, Robert Parker, Curt Riess, Lion Feuchtwanger, Willard Waller, Captain Don S. Gentile, Agnes Meyer, Robert Nathan, Jack Belden, Tom Treanor, Kent Cooper, Barbara Klaw, Captain Alfred Friendly, Marie Syrkin, Albert Maltz, Kenneth M. Gould, Oscar Ray, Jan Karski, Louis Nizer, Walter Karig, Welbourn Kelley, Ellwood C. Nance, Wanda Wasilewska, William Bradford Huie, Elliott Arnold, Jim Phelan, William Beveridge, Glenway Wescott, Lionel S. B. Shapiro, Egon Hostovsky, Friedrich A. Hayek, Harry Lever, Joseph Young, George K. Pratt and Russell Davenport 4.7
The NBC program Words At War is a captivating old-time radio series that explores the impact of World War II through dramatizations based on…

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