Classics (Antiquity)

The Diary of a Superfluous Man

by Ivan Turgenev Read by Martin Geeson 4.7
Turgenev's shy hero, Tchulkaturin, is a representative example of a Russian archetype - the "superfluous man", a sort of Hamlet no…

The Picture Of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde Read by Bob Neufeld 4.7
The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 Ju…

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

by Daniel Defoe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Defoe wrote this novel after his work as a journalist and pamphleteer. By 1722, Defoe had become recognized as a novelist, with the success …

A Doll's House

by Henrik Ibsen Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
A Doll's House is a groundbreaking play by Henrik Ibsen that challenges the conventions of 19th-century marriage and gender roles. At its ce…

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens Read by Mark F. Smith 4.7
This classic tale tells of an orphan, Pip, who through a series of strange circumstances first finds a trade as a blacksmith's apprentice an…

The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.5
The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories showcases Mark Twain's profound exploration of human nature and morality through a collection of t…

The Tale of Genji

by Murasaki Shikibu Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari) is a classic work of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the …

Tales of the Jazz Age

by F. Scott Fitzgerald Read by Don W. Jenkins 4.4
Tales of the Jazz Age is a captivating collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, showcasing the vibrancy and complexity of …

This Side of Paradise

by F. Scott Fitzgerald Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke po…

Emma

by Jane Austen Read by Moira Fogarty 4.8
A cautionary tale about the evils of interference, matchmaking and good intentions turned awry, Emma is the study of a young woman raised wi…

Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Read by Expatriate 4.6
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…

Notes from the Underground

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s short masterpiece about a ranting, slightly mad civil servant. The stylistic inventiveness, and the insights into the a…

Politics

by Aristotle Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Politics, by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, is one of the most influential texts in political philosophy. In it, Aristotle exp…

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens Read by Peter John Keeble 4.8
Great Expectations is written in the first person and is virtually a fictional autobiography of “Pip” from his childhood, through often pain…

The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan Read by Joy Chan 4.6
Translated into over 100 languages, The Pilgrim's Progress is one of the most famous classics of literature. It is an allegorical novel, des…

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum Read by J. Hall 4.5
The timeless story of the Wizard Of Oz. Follow Dorothy as she leaves Kansas for Oz on a cyclone. She meets many strange, and wonderful peopl…

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans

by Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024) 4.6
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral …

The Beautiful and Damned

by F. Scott Fitzgerald Read by Mark Nelson 4.5
This 1922 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald chronicles the life of Anthony Patch, the only heir of millionaire Adam Patch, his grandfather. Antho…

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) 4.5
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…

H Poirot

by Agatha Christie 4.5
Join the legendary detective Hercule Poirot as he unravels complex mysteries with his keen intellect and unique methods. This series brings …

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