Literary Fiction
Father Goriot
Read by James E. Carson
Honoré de Balzac
One of Balzac's most popular works, set around 1815 during the re-ascendancy of the Bourbon kings following the defeat of Napoleon. Said to …
The House of the Seven Gables (Version 2)
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of the Seven Gables is a gloomy New England mansion, haunted from its foundation by fraudulent dealings, accusations of witchcraft…
Lady Barbarina
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
Rich and beautiful American girls heading to England to find themselves noble titles through marriage, and using their New World wealth to p…
In Our Time
Read by KevinS
Ernest Hemingway
This is the first edition of Hemingway's in our time, published in a very small run in France in 1924. And American edition was released the…
The Master of Ballantrae
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Robert Louis Stevenson
Heir to a noble Scottish house in the mid 18th century, the Master is a charming, clever, and resourceful villain whose daring but ill-advis…
The Lost Girl
Read by Tony Foster
D. H. Lawrence
"There is no mistake about it, Alvina was a lost girl. She was cut off from everything she belonged to."In this most under-valued …
Oliver Twist (version 5 Dramatic Reading)
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Charles Dickens
When orphaned Oliver Twist asks for more food, the workhouse board are horrified and immediately pack him off to work for an undertaker, who…
Bunner Sisters
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Edith Wharton
“Bunner Sisters,” like “The Age of Innocence” is set in 1870s New York, however the lives of Ann Eliza and Evelina Bunner reflect impoverish…
Northanger Abbey (version 4)
Read by Tony Addison
Jane Austen
If it is a truth universally acknowledged that a good-looking girl cannot fail of attracting a clever young man does it follow that the reve…
Christmas Books
Read by Hamlet
Charles Dickens
From 1843 to 1848, Charles Dickens wrote a series of five novellas to be published at Christmas. Most people are familiar with the first, &…
Maude
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Christina Rossetti
Maude is a novella by Christina Rossetti, written in 1850 but published posthumously in 1897. Considered by scholars to be semi-autobiograph…
Billy Budd
Read by ScientificMethodist
Herman Melville
Young naive sailor Billy Budd is impressed into military service with the British navy in the 1790s, framed for conspiracy to mutiny, summar…
Noli Me Tangere (The Social Cancer)
Read by Availle
José Rizal
Noli Me Tangere (Latin for Touch Me Not) is a novel by the National Hero of the Philippines, Dr. José Rizal. It was originally writte…
Hans of Iceland
Read by Sonia
Victor Hugo
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…
The Metamorphosis (version 4)
Read by Phil Chenevert
Franz Kafka
This story, about a man who wakes up transformed into a bug and the repercussions it has on his life and the people around him, has intrigue…
The Woman in White - version 2
Read by Tony Addison
Wilkie Collins
Possibly Wilkie Collins' most famous novel, The Woman In White remade the Gothic Horror novel by taking its characters and tropes and settin…
Royal Highness
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Thomas Mann
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…
Daisy Miller: A Study in Two Parts (version 2 dramatic reading)
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Henry James
Daisy Miller is an 1878 novella by Henry James first appearing in Cornhill Magazine in June–July 1879, and in book form the following year. …
The Wings of the Dove
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Henry James
"The Wings of the Dove," published in 1902, represents to my memory a very old--if I shouldn't perhaps rather say a very young--mo…
The Three Sisters
Read by Expatriate
May Sinclair
Fascinated as she was by the lives of the Brontë siblings, May Sinclair loosely based her subtly sensual, quietly insurrectionary 1914 …