Literary Fiction
A Dozen Short Stories
Read by Krista Zaleski
H. G. Wells
Twelve of H. G. Wells' early short stories (1894-1925) originally printed in various magazines and papers. His earlier works delve into the …
Another Study of Woman
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Honoré de Balzac
A series of tales -- told by men, of course -- about women. Though the book first appeared in 1842, Balzac later added to it as an addenfum …
The Flaw in the Crystal
Read by Expatriate
May Sinclair
One of May Sinclair’s “uncanny” stories, this novella explores many of Sinclair’s most treasured themes: the bounds of marriage, the conflic…
Weird Tales
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
E. T. A. Hoffmann
These stories form the first volume of the renowned Tales of Hoffman. They are fantasies with hints of the supernatural—quintessential Roman…
Anthem
Read by Peter Kuhn
Ayn Rand
Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Russian-American writer Ayn Rand, written in 1937 and first published in 1938 in the United Kingdom…
Arrowsmith
Read by Lee Smalley
Sinclair Lewis
This 1926 Pulitzer Prize winning novel centers on the title character, a promising medical student who, as a doctor and following several in…
William, An Englishman
Read by Expatriate
Cicely Hamilton
William – an Englishman is a 1919 novel by Cicely Hamilton. The novel explores the effect of the First World War on a married couple during …
The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter
Read by Expatriate
Henry Murger and Henri Murger
As much as any other work of literature, Henri Murger’s 1851 collection of witty sketches Scènes de la vie de bohème shaped th…
Collection
Read by Bellona Times
Various
A look at the year 1891 through literature and non-fiction essays first published that year, including works by Mary E Wilkins, Sir Arthur C…
A Christmas Carol
Read by John Van Stan
Charles Dickens
The classic Christmas story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley an…
The Landlady
Read by Yuqing
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Everything changed when Ordynov, a secluded young thinker, stepped out of his old lodgings in search of another corner. The ailing landlord …
The Sun Also Rises
Read by Mark Nelson
Ernest Hemingway
This first novel by Ernest Hemingway follows a group of American and British expatriates in the years following World War I as they travel f…
The Dream of the Red Chamber
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Xueqin Cao and Xueqin Cao 曹雪芹
The Dream of the Red Chamber (also known as The Story of the Stone) is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of China, and considered the g…
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes
Read by Expatriate
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A whimsical collection of stories about a wandering street urchin, Lazarillo de Tormes is a classic of the Spanish Golden Age, even paid hom…
The Day of the Beast
Read by Brian Keenan
Zane Grey
Daren Lane, a World War I veteran, returns from the battlefields of Europe to the American Midwest. In Middletown USA, he encounters a postw…
Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady
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Samuel Richardson
It tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family, It is generally regarded as Richardson'…
The Explorer
Read by OCTL7
W. Somerset Maugham
An early novel by W. Somerset Maugham about conflicting feelings of self-integrity, filial love, romantic love. Lucy Allerton and Alec MacKe…
Mardi
Read by James K. White
Herman Melville
Mardi is Melville's first purely fictional work. In it he contemplates man's beliefs, and questions whether or not one faith has value over …
The Journal of Julius Rodman
Read by Mike Pelton
Edgar Allan Poe
The Journal of Julius Rodman, Being an Account of the First Passage across the Rocky Mountains of North America Ever Achieved by Civilized M…
Nana
Read by Celine Major
Émile Zola
Excerpt from Introduction:"Nana" stands third in popularity among the Zola novels. It is a study of the prostitute type and it giv…