Literary Fiction
Nouvelles
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Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
Ceci est une collection de huit nouvelles de la plume de l'auteur russe Léonid Andreïev (1871-1919), traduites par Serge Persky …
The Portrait of Mr. W. H.
Read by Rob Marland
Oscar Wilde
Wilde's short story about an attempt to uncover the identity of Mr. W. H., the dedicatee of Shakespeare's sonnets, was first published in Bl…
Uther and Igraine
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Warwick Deeping
This beautifully written book imagines the lives of Igraine and Uther Pendragon before the legend of Arthur began. (Summary by A. Gramour)
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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Henry Fielding
"I do not pretend to say the young man is without faults; but they are all the faults of wildness and of youth; faults which he may, na…
After the Divorce
Read by Tom Denholm
Grazia Deledda
Giovanna and Costantino Ledda are a happily married couple living with their young child in a Sardinian country village close to their exten…
The Rainbow
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D. H. Lawrence
The Rainbow is the story of three generations of the Brangwen family, a sexual and religious collection of incidents that eventually shows t…
Moby Dick
Read by Peter Dann
Herman Melville
This great, genre-bending novel nominally centres on the quest of the monomaniacal Captain Ahab to gain revenge for the loss of his leg to a…
A Daughter of Today
Read by Bruce Pirie
Sara Jeannette Duncan
The Canadian author Sara Jeannette Duncan (aka Mrs. Everard Cotes) is today best known for her 1904 novel of Ontario life, “The Imperialist”…
The Chouans
Read by Bruce Pirie
Honoré de Balzac
“The Chouans” (1829) was the first novel published under Balzac’s own name (rather than a pen-name). It became the first book in the great w…
El cocodrilo
Read by Victor Villarraza
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Un acontecimiento extraordinario, o el relato verídico que refiere cómo a un caballero de cierta edad y mucho respeto se lo tr…
Bliss
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Katherine Mansfield
"(N)ot to say that they are cheerful stories; they are anything but that; they have not, however, that element of trivial discomfort so…
Martin Schüler
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Florence Roma Muir Wilson
Romer Wilson's first novel is a study in the life of Genius, a theme that would preoccupy her throughout her life. The eponymous Martin Sch…
At a Winter's Fire
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Bernard Capes
This is a book of stories by Bernard Capes to entertain you if you should find yourself in a cozy chair by the fireplace during the short da…
Doña Berta
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Leopoldo Garcia Alas
Una anciana solterona, última descendiente de los Rondaliego, cuya existencia transcurre íntegramente en un rincón de A…
Doña Perfecta
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Benito Pérez Galdós
Doña Perfecta es una novela de Benito Pérez Galdós que muestra el choque entre dos mundos: el de don Ramón, jove…
Heinrich von Ofterdingen
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Novalis
Die sprichwörtliche „blaue Blume “ der Poesie hat ihren Ursprung in diesem Roman Novalis'. Novalis verwebt in diesem Bildungsroman M&a…
Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life
Read by Anne Erickson
Margaret O. Oliphant
Catherine Vernon has a firm hand on her family and on the family business. Her plans for her young protege Edward, whom she loves like a son…
Half-Past Bedtime
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H. H. Bashford
The wonderful adventures of Marian after she meets the strange Mr. Jugg. "And who are you, Mr Jugg?" she inquired. "I'm the K…
The Guermantes Way
Read by Michael O'Kelly
Marcel Proust
Vols. 3 and 4 of Remembrance of Things Past.The hero, Marcel, meets the duchess of Guermantes in the role of his parent's landlady. The hero…
Chance
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
"You are the expert in the psychological wilderness," the nominal narrator of this engaging tale says at one point to Marlow, who …