Literary Fiction
The Crocodile (Version 2)
Read by Phillip Cryan
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoevesky's "The Crocodile," first published in 1865 in the magazine "Epoch," is the story of Ivan Matveitch, a…
The Creators: A Comedy
Read by Expatriate
May Sinclair
Jane Holland is a genius, the greatest of a group of extraordinary literary friends. She has an intense artistic and intellectual kinship wi…
Flower of the Dusk
Read by Daryl Wor
Myrtle Reed
Published in 1908, this is the story of two small families and the agreeable couple who help them. The heartfelt Norths, though clouded by d…
The Wooden Horse
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
Walpole’s first novel (1909), The Wooden Horse is the story of the Trojans, a family which accepted tranquilly the belief that they were the…
Cut by the County; or, Grace Darnel
Read by Adrienne Prevost
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Darnel Park is situated in a county that thrives on gossip and secrets, and the Darnel family, as it turns out, has many of them. An attempt…
The Magic Mountain (Volume Two)
Read by Steve Gough
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann’s epic novel depicts a decaying, corrupted European society on the eve of the First World War. Set in a luxurious sanatorium hig…
The Children Of The Abbey
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Regina Maria Roche
Published in 1796, this novel tells the trials and tribulations of Amanda and Oscar FitzAlan, brother and sister who have to navigate the wo…
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
Read by Peter Eastman
George Gissing
This novel consists of selections from the diary of an author, starting soon after his retirement and continuing until just before his death…
The Bridge Builders
Read by Tony Addison
Rudyard Kipling
A tale of the revenge of the earth, in this case, specifically, Mother Gunga, Goddess of the River Ganga, against the men who confine her po…
Zielenschemering
Read by Anna Simon
Louis Couperus
Zielenschemering, het derde boek uit de romancyclus De Boeken der Kleine Zielen van Louis Couperus, beschrijft een volgende periode uit het …
No More Parades
Read by Peter Dann
Ford Madox Ford
When No More Parades was first published in 1925, a critic in The Observer wrote of the first 100 pages that they "easily surpass in tr…
The Merry-Go-Round
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W. Somerset Maugham
Basil Kent marries Jenny Bush, because he believes that is the honourable thing to do after getting her pregnant, but he realizes that he is…
The Rescue
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
"The Rescue" is the third of Conrad's novels to feature Captain Tom Lingard, an independent buccaneer operating in the Malayan arc…
Het Heilige Weten
Read by Anna Simon
Louis Couperus
Het Heilige Weten is het vierde en laatste deel van de romancyclus "De boeken der kleine zielen".Het is 10 jaar na het derde deel,…
Lover or Friend
Read by Edmund Bloxam
Rosa Nouchette Carey
An epic tale of romantic and societal confrontation, as two families become far more intimately entangled than they could have previously im…
Un scrupule et Dualité
Read by Christiane Jehanne
Paul Bourget
Un scrupule, 1893, suivi de Dualité, 1900.L’histoire de Blanche, la « petite » sœur d’Aline, dans le Paris mondain et dem…
Die Psychologie der Erbtante
Read by seito
Erich Mühsam
Eine Thantologie aus 25 Einzeldarstellungenzur Lösung der Unsterblichkeits-Frage.Margarete Beutler zugeeignet(Zusammenfassung - Unterti…
Sechs Novellen
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Jens Peter Jacobsen
Sechs Novellen, in denen Jens Peter Jacobsen die Menschen beschreibt. Ihr Leben, ihre Gefühle, Wünsche und Ängste. Mit gro&sz…
Het Late Leven
Read by Anna Simon
Louis Couperus
'Het late leven' is het tweede boek in de romancyclus 'De boeken der kleine zielen', en gaat verder direct na het einde van het vorige boek,…
Robert Kimberly
Read by Bob R
Frank H. Spearman
The novel is set among the wealthy of the Northeast in the USA of the early 1900's. A close knit group of about ten couples in high society …