Literary Fiction
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Read by David Clarke
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holme…
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Read by Mark Nelson
Victor Hugo
One of the great literary tragedies of all time, The Hunchback of Notre Dame features some of the most well-known characters in all of ficti…
Les Misérables
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Victor Hugo
This is book 2 of 5. An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the w…
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Read by Adrian Praetzellis
Thomas Hardy
One of the greatest English tragic novels, TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES (1891) is the story of a “pure woman” who is victimized both by convent…
Les Misérables
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Victor Hugo
This is book 3 of 5.An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the wa…
A Christmas Carol
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Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman & Hall on 17 December 1843. The story tells …
Les Misérables
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Victor Hugo
This is book 4 of 5. An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the w…
Les Misérables
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Victor Hugo
This is book 5 of 5. An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the w…
Don Quixote
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the mo…
The Death of Ivan Ilyitch
Read by Laurie Anne Walden
Leo Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilyitch is the story of a socially ambitious middle-aged judge who contracts an unexplained and untreatable illness. As I…
Crime and Punishment
Read by Mark Nelson
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment is the second of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's full-length novels following his return from 5 years of exile in Siberia, and is …
Around the World in Eighty Days
Read by Ralph Snelson
Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Ve…
Notes From The Underground
Read by Bob Neufeld
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Notes from Underground is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. It presen…
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Mary Shelley
A mentally unstable genius, Victor Frankenstein, inspired by the dreams of ancient alchemists and empowered by modern science, creates a hum…
The Brothers Karamazov
Read by Bruce Pirie
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Originally published in serial form in 1879-80, “The Brothers Karamazov” is recognized as one of the very greatest masterpieces of world lit…
The Great Gatsby
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Set in 1925, this is a novel of the Jazz Age; of ambition, of the careless rich, of wild parties and flappers and bootleg booze; and the eff…
The Metamorphosis
Read by Bob Neufeld
Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung, also sometimes translated as The Transformation) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in…
The Portrait of a Lady
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880–81 an…
The Idiot
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss sanatorium suffering from severe epilepsy, returns to Ru…
Silas Marner
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George Eliot
Reputed as Eliot’s favourite novel Silas Marner is set in the early years of the 19th century. Marner, a weaver, is a member of a small cong…