Classics (Antiquity)

Far From The Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy Read by Tadhg 4.8
Far From The Madding Crowd is Hardy's fourth novel. It centres on the lives of five characters: Gabriel Oak, Bathsheba Everdene, Mr Boldwood…

Cranford

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Read by Sibella Denton 4.4
Cranford is the best-known novel of the 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published in 1851 as a serial in the mag…

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens Read by Mil Nicholson 4.9
In one of Charles Dickens’ most beloved stories, Philip Pirrip, known as “Pip”, narrates his own journey, from the hindsight of 50 years.Pip…

Framley Parsonage

by Anthony Trollope Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Framley Parsonage invites listeners into the intricate social tapestry of Victorian England, where the lives of clergymen and their families…

Just Patty

by Jean Webster Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Patty, Conny, and Priscilla are the best of friends, and roommates at boarding school. While the teachers might say they are mischievous, ev…

Poor Miss Finch

by Wilkie Collins Read by Sandra G 4.6
“Poor Miss Finch.” That is what everyone calls the courageous protagonist of this book. In other words, “poor thing, she’s blind, isn’t it a…

The Annals

by Publius Cornelius Tacitus Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The Annals was Tacitus' final work, covering the period from the death of Augustus Caesar in the year 14. He wrote at least 16 books, but bo…

Of Human Bondage

by W. Somerset Maugham Read by Tom Weiss 4.5
Of Human Bondage, published in 1915, is considered to be W. Somerset Maugham’s best work. Many believe the novel to be one of the world’s li…

The Death of Ivan Ilyitch

by Leo Tolstoy Read by Laurie Anne Walden 4.7
The Death of Ivan Ilyitch is the story of a socially ambitious middle-aged judge who contracts an unexplained and untreatable illness. As I…

Around the World in Eighty Days

by Jules Verne Read by Ralph Snelson 4.8
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…

Emma

by Jane Austen Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.8
Jane Austen famously described Emma Woodhouse, the title character of her 1815 novel, as "a heroine whom no-one but myself will much li…

A Pair of Blue Eyes

by Thomas Hardy Read by Tadhg 4.6
The book describes the love triangle between a young woman, Elfride Swancourt, and her two suitors from very different backgrounds. Stephen …

Good Wives

by Louisa May Alcott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Good Wives continues the beloved story of the March sisters, following their journey into adulthood as they navigate the complexities of lov…

Queen Lucia

by E. F. Benson Read by Martin Clifton 4.7
E. F. Benson was born at Wellington College in Berkshire, where his father, who later went on to become the Archbishop of Canterbury, was th…

The Blithedale Romance

by Nathaniel Hawthorne Read by Jacquerie 4.4
The Blithedale Romance is the story of four principal characters who work with -- and sometimes against -- each other on Blithedale, a commu…

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë Read by Ruth Golding 4.7
Emily Brontë's only novel, published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet…

The Chimes

by Charles Dickens Read by Ruth Golding 4.7
The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In is the second of Charles Dickens' Christmas books, publ…

Scenes of Clerical Life

by George Eliot Read by Bruce Pirie 4.8
Scenes of Clerical Life, which appeared in book form in 1858 (after serial publication in the previous year), was the first published fictio…

This Side of Paradise

by F. Scott Fitzgerald Read by Mark F. Smith 4.2
Amory Blaine grew up in a wealthy family and was given an Ivy League education. Without a need to learn a profession, he chiefly dabbled in …

The Seven Poor Travellers

by Charles Dickens Read by Ruth Golding 4.5
One of Dickens' Christmas stories, this was first published as part of the Christmas number of Household Words for 1854. The first chapter r…

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