Literary Criticism

The Reverberator

by Henry James Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4.2
Another Jamesian look at Americans in Paris. What happens when a reporter for an American scandal sheet (The Reverberator) is looking for a …

The Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka Read by Bob Neufeld 4.5
The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung, also sometimes translated as The Transformation) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in…

An Ideal Husband

by Oscar Wilde Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The "Ideal Husband" of the title is Sir Robert Chiltern, with his equally upright wife Lady Chiltern. He has never committed a cri…

The Awkward Age

by Henry James Read by Anna Simon 3.8
Nanda Brookenham is coming of age, and thus 'coming out' in London society - which leads to complications in her family's social set in Lond…

The Duel

by Anton Chekhov Read by Expatriate 4.6
Known for his plays and short stories, Anton Chekhov also wrote a series of novellas, astonishing for their psychological complexity and com…

Chronicles of Avonlea

by Lucy Maud Montgomery Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
In this first collection of stories following the characters from the "Anne of Green Gables" series, we see 12 vignettes into the …

Chance

by Joseph Conrad Read by James E. Carson 4.5
Apparently a two part story about a Damsel and a Knight, perhaps a damsel who depends upon the kindness of strangers. It was originally enti…

The Emperor of Portugallia

by Selma Lagerlöf Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016) 5
Selma Lagerlöf was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Pr…

The Chaperon

by Henry James Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4.4
What on earth is a girl to do when London society has convicted her mother of a dreadful sin and has ostracized her? If blood is thicker tha…

Hunger

by Knut Hamsun Read by Greg W. 4.3
Hunger (Norwegian: Sult) is a novel by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun and was published in its final form in 1890. The novel has been hail…

The Bostonians

by Henry James Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
This bittersweet tragicomedy centers on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chance…

The Burning Secret

by Stefan Zweig Read by Lee Smalley 4.7
A lonely, convalescing 12 year-old boy and his attractive mother, who is in a loveless marriage, meet a gentleman while vacationing at a Eur…

Anna of the Five Towns

by Arnold Bennett Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
The plot centers on Anna Tellwright, daughter of a wealthy but miserly and dictatorial father, living in the Potteries area of Staffordshire…

Youth

by Leo Tolstoy Read by Bill Boerst 4.4
Youth is the third installment in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, following Childhood and Boyhood. In this reflective narrative, Tol…

Father Goriot

by Honoré de Balzac Read by James E. Carson 4.2
One of Balzac's most popular works, set around 1815 during the re-ascendancy of the Bourbon kings following the defeat of Napoleon. Said to …

In the Cage

by Henry James Read by Lee Ann Howlett 4
In the Cage is a novella by Henry James, first published as a book in 1898. This long story centers on an unnamed London telegraphist. She d…

A Dozen Short Stories

by H. G. Wells Read by Krista Zaleski 4
Twelve of H. G. Wells' early short stories (1894-1925) originally printed in various magazines and papers. His earlier works delve into the …

Royal Highness

by Thomas Mann Read by Margaret Espaillat 4.3
Royal Highness is the story of Prince Klaus Heinrich, a member of a struggling German duchy and an exotic American heiress who comes to live…

Childhood

by Leo Tolstoy Read by Expatriate 4.6
Childhood is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian l…

The House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
The House of the Seven Gables is a gloomy New England mansion, haunted from its foundation by fraudulent dealings, accusations of witchcraft…

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