Literary Criticism

The Money Moon

by Jeffery Farnol Read by Jeffery Farnol 4.8
Rejected in love, the incredibly rich (but appropriately modest) George Bellew walks into a small English village populated with a cast of m…

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

by Samuel Johnson Read by Martin Geeson 4.3
In this enchanting fable (subtitled The Choice of Life), Rasselas and his retinue burrow their way out of the totalitarian paradise of the H…

The Lifted Veil

by George Eliot Read by Bruce Pirie 4.5
The Lifted Veil is a thought-provoking novella by George Eliot that delves into the realms of the supernatural and the unknown. Set against …

The Fortune of the Rougons

by Émile Zola Read by Peter Tucker 4.7
The Fortune of the Rougons (French: La Fortune des Rougon), originally published in 1871, is the first novel in Émile Zola's monument…

Barchester Towers

by Anthony Trollope Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
This is the second in Trollope’s ‘Barsetshire’ series of novels. The later novels in the series move away from Barchester itself but 'Barche…

The Job

by Sinclair Lewis Read by MichelleHarris 4.6
'The Job' is an early work by American novelist Sinclair Lewis. It is considered an early declaration of the rights of working women. The fo…

Stalky & Co.

by Rudyard Kipling Read by Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019) 4.5
Rudyard Kipling published Stalky & Co. in 1899. Set at an English boarding school in a seaside town on the North Devon coast. (The town,…

The Man Who Laughs

by Victor Hugo Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The Man Who Laughs is a profound exploration of identity and societal perception, set against the backdrop of 17th-century England. The stor…

Tales of Unrest

by Joseph Conrad Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Tales of Unrest is Joseph Conrad's first collection of short stories, published in 1898, showcasing his mastery of narrative and psychologic…

Nostromo

by Joseph Conrad Read by Peter Dann 4.4
In Nostromo, Joseph Conrad has transformed an apocryphal anecdote about a sailor who got away with stealing a boat loaded with silver into a…

The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter

by Ambrose Bierce Read by Phil Chenevert 4.4
Set against the backdrop of 17th century Europe, The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter weaves a poignant narrative that explores the intersect…

The Absentee

by Maria Edgeworth Read by Bruce Pirie 4.5
Published in 1812, “The Absentee” by Maria Edgeworth examines social injustice in 19th-century Britain. At that time, the management of man…

Alice Adams

by Booth Tarkington Read by Jeannie 4.5
A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Alice Adams chronicles the attempts of a lower middle class American midwestern family at the turn of the 20…

Growth of the Soil

by Knut Hamsun Read by Greg W. 4.6
Growth of the Soil (Markens Grøde) is the novel by Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun which won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. …

The Steppe

by Anton Chekhov Read by Expatriate 4.7
Little Yegorushka goes off to school for the first time, setting out on the journey in the company of his Uncle Ivan, the local priest Fathe…

English Literature

by William J. Long Read by Tony Oliva 4.6
This book, which presents the whole splendid history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the close of the Victorian Era, has thr…

Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection

by Charles Dickens Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection comprises short works previously unrecorded for LibriVox - fiction, essays, poetry, letters…

To Let

by John Galsworthy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
‘The Forsyte Saga’ is the story of a wealthy London family stretching from the eighteen-eighties until the nineteen-twenties.To Let is the t…

Royal Highness

by Thomas Mann Read by Margaret Espaillat 4.3
Royal Highness is the story of Prince Klaus Heinrich, a member of a struggling German duchy and an exotic American heiress who comes to live…

The Cossacks

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
The Cossacks (1863) is an unfinished novel which describes the Cossack life and people through a story of Dmitri Olenin, a Russian aristocra…

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