General Fiction
The Awakening
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin's 1899 novella The Awakening is about the personal, sexual, and artistic awakening of a young wife and mother, Edna Pontellier. …
Dombey and Son
Read by Mil Nicholson
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens the author of Dombey and Son, originally wrote the book in installments which were published from October 1846 to April 1848…
Cranford
Read by Sibella Denton
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Cranford is the best-known novel of the 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published in 1851 as a serial in the mag…
Women in Love
Read by Ruth Golding
D. H. Lawrence
Women in Love is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence published in 1920. It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow (1915), and fol…
Tom Sawyer Abroad
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of Jules Verne-esque a…
Oedipus Rex
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Sophocles
Oedipus the King (often known by the Latin title Oedipus Rex) is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed c. 429 BC. It was…
Oomphel in the Sky
Read by Mark Nelson
H. Beam Piper
Natives of the distant planet of Kwannon believe that their world is about to end, and in preparing for the apocalypse, may be unnecessarily…
Creatures of the Abyss
Read by Mark Nelson
Murray Leinster
Orejas de ellos, "the things that listen", whispered the superstitious fishermen when the strange occurrences began off the Philip…
Marcia Schuyler
Read by TriciaG
Grace Livingston Hill
A compelling love triangle. Marcia is young & sweet. Her older sister Kate is vain & selfish. Marcia deeply admires the man that Kat…
The Seventh Man
Read by Robert Keiper
Max Brand
The Seventh Man by Max Brand, tells part of the story of the larger-than-life western character, Dan Barry, known as “Whistling Dan,” and hi…
Night and Day
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Virginia Woolf
Night and Day (1919) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives of two friends, Katharin…
What is Man?
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
"What Is Man?", published by Mark Twain in 1906, is a dialogue between a young man and an older man jaded to the world. It involve…
The Dragon and the Raven
Read by Mike Harris
G. A. Henty
During the reign of King Alfred, Danish forces have invaded the English countryside. Although the English try to repulse these attacks, they…
The Monk
Read by James K. White
Matthew Lewis
Matthew Gregory Lewis's The Monk: A Romance is a story of frustrated and unrequited desire between mentor and pupil mixed with elements of t…
The Colors of Space
Read by Mark Nelson
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Young Bart Steele’s father is dead. A mysterious stranger tells him his life is in danger, and hands him a ticket aboard a Lhari star cruise…
The Intrusion of Jimmy
Read by Mark Nelson
P. G. Wodehouse
The action begins with playboy bachelor Jimmy Pitt in New York; having fallen in love on a transatlantic liner, he befriends a small-time bu…
The Moon Pool
Read by Mark Nelson
Abraham Merritt
Dr. David Throckmartin’s scientific expedition to the South Sea Islands discovers among ancient ruins a portal into Muria, an unknown underg…
What Maisie Knew
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Henry James
When Beale and Ida Farange are divorced, the court decrees that their only child, the very young Maisie, will shuttle back and forth between…
Freckles
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Gene Stratton-Porter
Freckles is a young man who has been raised since infancy in a Chicago orphanage. His one dream is to find a job, a place to belong and peop…
The Window at the White Cat
Read by Robert Keiper
Mary Roberts Rinehart
When a clumsy, well-meaning lawyer gets involved with a pair of delightful old maids and a beautiful girl, he must acquire some of the skill…