Literary Fiction
The Chouans
Read by Bruce Pirie
Honoré de Balzac
“The Chouans” (1829) was the first novel published under Balzac’s own name (rather than a pen-name). It became the first book in the great w…
El cocodrilo
Read by Victor Villarraza
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Un acontecimiento extraordinario, o el relato verídico que refiere cómo a un caballero de cierta edad y mucho respeto se lo tr…
Moby Dick
Read by Peter Dann
Herman Melville
This great, genre-bending novel nominally centres on the quest of the monomaniacal Captain Ahab to gain revenge for the loss of his leg to a…
Martin Schüler
Read by Expatriate
Florence Roma Muir Wilson
Romer Wilson's first novel is a study in the life of Genius, a theme that would preoccupy her throughout her life. The eponymous Martin Sch…
At a Winter's Fire
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Bernard Capes
This is a book of stories by Bernard Capes to entertain you if you should find yourself in a cozy chair by the fireplace during the short da…
Bliss
Read by Peter Dann
Katherine Mansfield
"(N)ot to say that they are cheerful stories; they are anything but that; they have not, however, that element of trivial discomfort so…
Doña Berta
Read by Lu
Leopoldo Garcia Alas
Una anciana solterona, última descendiente de los Rondaliego, cuya existencia transcurre íntegramente en un rincón de A…
Doña Perfecta
Read by Meribau
Benito Pérez Galdós
Doña Perfecta es una novela de Benito Pérez Galdós que muestra el choque entre dos mundos: el de don Ramón, jove…
Heinrich von Ofterdingen
Read by seito
Novalis
Die sprichwörtliche „blaue Blume “ der Poesie hat ihren Ursprung in diesem Roman Novalis'. Novalis verwebt in diesem Bildungsroman M&a…
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…
Half-Past Bedtime
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
H. H. Bashford
The wonderful adventures of Marian after she meets the strange Mr. Jugg. "And who are you, Mr Jugg?" she inquired. "I'm the K…
?לאן
Read by Omri Lernau
מרדכי זאב פיארברג Mordecai Ze'Ev Feierberg
Mordecai Ze’ev Feierberg was a Jewish Hebrew writer in Russia. He was attracted to enlightenment and to medieval Hebrew poetry. Feierberg wa…
Chance
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
"You are the expert in the psychological wilderness," the nominal narrator of this engaging tale says at one point to Marlow, who …
Tiempos difíciles
Read by Lu
Charles Dickens
Con esta novela ambientada en la era de la revolución industrial, en una imaginada localidad londinense cuyo pueblo vive bajo el adoc…
The Forgery
Read by Lynne T
George Payne Rainsford James
Humphrey Scriven is a fine, genial, mercantile man, left widowed to raise three daughters and a son. Two of the daughters marry well althoug…
Youth
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
This short tale was first published in book form alongside 'Heart of Darkness' and 'The End of the Tether', the three tales representing you…
Tasker Jevons
Read by Expatriate
May Sinclair
In this May Sinclair wartime masterpiece, dashing newsman Walter Furnival is an absurdly good catch: handsome, successful, athletic, intelli…
Limanora, The Island Of Progress
Read by KirksVoice
Godfrey Sweven
Our ethereal man with wings, whom we met in Riallaro, continues his tale about Limanora which is a Utopian Island created as an experiment i…
The Guermantes Way
Read by Michael O'Kelly
Marcel Proust
Vols. 3 and 4 of Remembrance of Things Past.The hero, Marcel, meets the duchess of Guermantes in the role of his parent's landlady. The hero…
Traumnovelle
Read by Hokuspokus
Arthur Schnitzler
Der Arzt Fridolin und seine Frau Albertine führen eine anscheinend glückliche Ehe, doch unter der Oberfläche gären unaus…