Literary Fiction
Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life
Read by Anne Erickson
Margaret O. Oliphant
Catherine Vernon has a firm hand on her family and on the family business. Her plans for her young protege Edward, whom she loves like a son…
Weird Tales
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
E. T. A. Hoffmann
Paradoxically, it is variety that unites the tales you are about to read. They take place in widely separated countries and historical perio…
To the Lighthouse
Read by Phil Benson
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf's classic modernist novel explores the lives and thoughts of the Ramsays and their guests at the family's summer home on the …
The Zeit-Geist
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Lily Dougall
"When travelling in Canada, in the region north of Lake Ontario, I came upon traces of the somewhat remarkable life which is the subjec…
The Magic Mountain
Read by Steve Gough
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann’s epic novel depicts a decaying, corrupted European society on the eve of the First World War. Set in a luxurious sanatorium hig…
The Dreamer of Dreams
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Marie Of Romania Alexandra Victoria
Eric, artist for the king, has created a marvelous painting of a royal wedding. It is finished except for the face of the queen, which appea…
Cradock Nowell
Read by Lynne T
Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Cradock Nowell: a Tale of the New Forest is a three-volume novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1866. Set in the New Forest and in London, …
The Combined Maze
Read by Expatriate
May Sinclair
Ranny Ransome is an idealistic young man, devoted to exuberant gymnastic exercises and to fighting “flabbiness” in his own life, body and so…
Mortal Coils
Read by Kirsten Wever
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley is best known as a philosopher and novelist – notably as the author of Brave New World. He also wrote poetry, short stories an…
Dernières nouvelles
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Prosper Mérimée
Ce recueil de 6 nouvelles originales de Prosper Mérimée (1803-1870) nous emmène vers le surnaturel et le domaine du r&e…
Seefahrt ist not!
Read by Claus Misfeldt
Gorch Fock
Gorch Fock (Geburtsname Johann Kinau) gibt in seinem Roman Einblicke in Leben und Arbeit der Menschen seines Geburtsortes, der Elbinsel Fink…
Settlers of the Marsh
Read by Bruce Pirie
Frederick Philip Grove
The novel “Settlers of the Marsh” (1925) is a foundational work of realism in Canadian fiction. Its author, Frederick Philip Grove, a German…
The Torrents of Spring
Read by KevinS
Ernest Hemingway
The Torrents of Spring was Hemingway's second novel to be published. It would not be wrong to say that it is unique among the author's work …
Entre naranjos
Read by Lu
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Con tintes naturalistas, un apreciable realismo, y unos toques de ironía, Blasco Ibáñez relata en esta novela ambientad…
Don Quixote
Read by Peter Dann
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
It is a curious paradox that while the two volumes of Don Quixote have been described as the "best novel of all time" and the &quo…
The Wind
Read by Availle
Dorothy Scarborough
After her mother's death, Letty is forced to move in with her only relative, cousin Bev. From the start, the naive 18-year-old finds it diff…
La Grande Bretèche
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Honoré de Balzac
La Grande Bretèche is an addendum to Balzac's Another Study of Woman, and is the final of a set of stories told around a dinner table…
La Lecture
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Various
La Lecture était une revue littéraire bi-mensuelle française de la fin du 19e siècle, publiant surtout des nouve…
Collaboration
Read by David Wales
Henry James
It is Paris sometime after the Franco-Prussian War (1870--Germany won--the French Second Republic collapsed--France embittered). A French po…
The Arrow of Gold
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
In the 1870s, supporters of the pretender to the throne of Spain take advantage of a young man's attraction to the sea to persuade him to ru…