Literary Fiction

The Landlady

Read by Yuqing


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


Everything changed when Ordynov, a secluded young thinker, stepped out of his old lodgings in search of another corner. The ailing landlord …

Audrey Craven

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May Sinclair


In May Sinclair’s remarkable first novel, Audrey Craven is a beautiful young woman who has by her idiosyncrasies acquired a thoroughly undes…

The Journal of Julius Rodman

Read by Mike Pelton


Edgar Allan Poe


The Journal of Julius Rodman, Being an Account of the First Passage across the Rocky Mountains of North America Ever Achieved by Civilized M…

The Day of the Beast

Read by Brian Keenan


Zane Grey


Daren Lane, a World War I veteran, returns from the battlefields of Europe to the American Midwest. In Middletown USA, he encounters a postw…

De Kleine Johannes

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Frederik Van Eeden


De Kleine Johannes is een sprookje, waarin de ontwikkeling van kind tot volwassene en de worsteling met de levensraadsels centraal staan. We…

La tía Tula

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Miguel De Unamuno


Gertrudis, mujer muy religiosa, decide quedarse soltera y tras la muerte de su hermana Rosa que se había casado con Ramiro dedica su …

The Trembling of a Leaf

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W. Somerset Maugham


A collection of short stories on the South Sea Islands, among which are the famous "Red," "Rain," and "The Fall of …

Le storie del castello di Trezza

Read by Francesca Roma


Giovanni Verga


Un insolito «giallo» gotico, che rivela un Verga diverso e un'opera dissonante dalle sue più note. A mo’ di giallo si le…

The Mayor of Casterbridge (version 3)

Read by Alisson Veldhuis


Thomas Hardy


In a fit of drunkenness, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter to the highest bidder at a country fair. He lives with regret and…

Mademoiselle Ixe

Read by David Wales


Mary Elizabeth Hawker


This is a story by the English writer Mary Elizabeth Hawker (1848-1908) entitled Mademoiselle Ixe, by[pseudonym] Lanoe Falconer. The manuscr…

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

Read by Nicole Lee


Sir Philip Sidney


Arcadia is a prose work by Sir Philip Sidney, a classic of the Renaissance pastoral and a work of high romance, a fleeting vision of a lost …

Nana

Read by Celine Major


Émile Zola


Excerpt from Introduction:"Nana" stands third in popularity among the Zola novels. It is a study of the prostitute type and it giv…

Nami-ko

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Kenjiro Tokutomi


Nami-ko, a young woman of a noble Japanese family, has recently married the naval officer Takeo, the only heir of a friend of her father's. …

Shirley (version 2)

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Charlotte Brontë


This work, Charlotte Bronte's second, is set in the England of the early 1800's, which was beset with political and social changes, represen…

An Ideal Husband (version 2)

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Oscar Wilde


The "Ideal Husband" of the title is Sir Robert Chiltern, with his equally upright wife Lady Chiltern. He has never committed a cri…

The Town Traveller

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George Gissing


The town traveller is himself a British salesman, living in a lower class part of London in the Victorian era. The story depicts his interac…

The Secret Agent (Version 3)

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


Taking as his inspiration the historical accidental death by explosion of an anarchist outside the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park, Lond…

A viúva Simões

Read by Rachel Moraes


Júlia Lopes de Almeida and Júlia Lopes De Almeida


Ernestina Simões é rica, bonita, ainda jovem e viúva. Com uma filha já moça, ela vive praticamente reclus…

The Coast of Bohemia

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William Dean Howells


William Dean Howells is at his iconoclastic best in this exploration of bourgeois values, particularly in the clash between respectable soci…

Prodigal Daughters

Read by Kate Follis


Joseph Hocking


A frank look at the revolt of the younger generation following World War I, the book follows the Trelawney family. The father looks eagerly …

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