Literary Fiction
The Siege of London
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
In this work, first published in 1883, James once again writes of an American trying to settle in England. The woman at the center, however,…
Jenny
Read by Expatriate
Sigrid Undset
Jenny Winge is a Norwegian expatriate studying art in Rome, part of a Bohemian group of friends who explore the ancient City in an intoxicat…
Nostromo (Version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
In Nostromo, Joseph Conrad has transformed an apocryphal anecdote about a sailor who got away with stealing a boat loaded with silver into a…
Men Without Women
Read by James Hutchisson
Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway's second collection of short fiction, first published in 1927, including many of his best-known stories, including "Hills Lik…
A Hero of Our Time (Version 2)
Read by Expatriate
Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov
One of the iconic characters of all Russian literature, Grigori Aleksandrovich Pechorin is the ultimate “superfluous man.” An aristocratic r…
The Hero
Read by OCTL7
W. Somerset Maugham
James Parsons comes home to Little Primpton after serving in the Boer War. The whole town is proud of their new hero, who was awarded the Vi…
Love Among the Artists
Read by Expatriate
George Bernard Shaw
Love Among the Artists was published in the United States in 1900 and in England in 1914, but it was written in 1881. In the ambience of chi…
El crimen de Lord Arturo Savile
Read by Victor Villarraza
Oscar Wilde
En "El crimen de Lord Arthur Saville" se nos revela el Wilde en estado puro, el observador más irónico y despiadado …
Sons of the Covenant: A Tale of London Jewry
Read by Adrian Praetzellis
Samuel Gordon
Born in London's poverty-stricken and heavily Jewish East End, the Lipcott boys create their own successes in life and love. The brothers' c…
The Last Chronicle of Barset (version 2)
Read by Steve Gough
Anthony Trollope
LibriVox reader Nicholas Clifford calls this Trollope's best novel in his introduction to the collaborative version of this fine novel - and…
Peccavi
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
E. W. Hornung
How does a man who as committed a heavy sin — not a crime, but a sin with terrible consequences — atone for his behaviour? What if the man i…
Under the Shadow of Etna: Sicilian Stories
Read by Mary J
Giovanni Verga
The short stories of Giovanni Verga, one of the leading authors of Italian verismo, or realism, tell mostly of working-class characters in r…
The Papers
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
Today the world is awash with “celebrities” whose only accomplishment is being celebrated by the media in all its various forms. Henry James…
The Good Soldier (Version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
Ford Madox Ford
First published in 1915, The Good Soldier might be characterised as a melodrama of English upper class infidelities, cut into little pieces,…
Island Nights' Entertainments
Read by Tony Addison
Robert Louis Stevenson
A marvelous depiction of two sides of South Sea Islands' life through three separate tales. One, the experience of the incoming British kee…
Memorias de Martha
Read by Rachel Moraes
Júlia Lopes De Almeida
Memórias que mesclam pobreza, sujidade, fome crônica, trabalho à exaustão, inveja, ciúme, degradaç&…
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…
The Temptation Of St. Anthony
Read by Tony Addison
Gustave Flaubert
An extraordinary work of the aesthetic imagination, cast in the form of a psycho-drama detailing the events of one night in the life of the …
Aus Prager Gassen und Nächten
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Egon Erwin Kisch
Egon Erwin Kisch, auch bekannt als „der rasende Reporter“, erzählt hier in kleinen Reportagen Begebenheiten aus Prag. Informationen aus…