Literary Fiction

La Lecture, tome 2

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Various


La Lecture était une revue littéraire bi-mensuelle française de la fin du 19e siècle, publiant surtout des nouve…

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…

The Garden Party, and Other Stories version 2

Read by Peter Dann


Katherine Mansfield


The imagination responsible for these remarkable stories, the third and final collection published in Mansfield's lifetime, is clearly livin…

The Red and the Black

Read by Peter Dann


Stendhal


It is a brave author indeed who gives his hero as many flaws as Stendhal bestows upon young Julien Sorel, an ambitious young carpenter's son…

'Twixt Land and Sea

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Joseph Conrad


While the central figures in each of the three stories in this collection are sailing captains, the main action in two of them takes place o…

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…

The Rainbow (Version 3)

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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…

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”…

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 Hermit and the Wild Woman, and other Stories

Read by Winnifred Assmann


Edith Wharton


Seven short stories by Edith Wharton, American author of The House of Mirth. "The Hermit and the Wild Woman" (rather differen…

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…

Half-Past Bedtime - Version 2

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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…

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…

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…

Joan Haste

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H. Rider Haggard


A romantic melodrama and one of H. Rider Haggard's most poignant love stories. Joan Haste, a beautiful but illegitimate woman whose mother …

?לאן (Whither?)

Read by Omri Lernau


מרדכי זאב פיארברג Mordecai Ze'Ev Feierberg


Mordecai Ze’ev Feierberg was a Jewish Hebrew writer in Russia. He was attracted to enlightenment and to medieval Hebrew poetry. Feierberg wa…

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…

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 Forgery

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George Payne Rainsford James


Humphrey Scriven is a fine, genial, mercantile man, left widowed to raise three daughters and a son. Two of the daughters marry well althoug…

The Chouans (version 2)

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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…

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