Drama

The Awakening

by Kate Chopin Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.4
Kate Chopin's 1899 novella The Awakening is about the personal, sexual, and artistic awakening of a young wife and mother, Edna Pontellier. …

The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Read by Martin Geeson 4.7
The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss sanatorium suffering from severe epilepsy, returns to Ru…

Summer

by Edith Wharton Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.4
Wharton's 1917 novella Summer, like her more famous work Ethan Frome, is set in a very small rural New England town. Charity Royall longs t…

The Woodlanders

by Thomas Hardy Read by Tadhg 4.8
The Woodlanders is one of Hardy's later novels, although he originally intended it as a successor to Far From The Madding Crowd. It concerns…

The Lamplighter

by Maria Susanna Cummins Read by Bridget Gaige 4.8
Gertrude began life as an abused child in the care of Nan Grant, a cold and cruel woman. The only human character who was kind to her was th…

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The Woman in White is a groundbreaking mystery novel by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1860. This epistolary tale unfolds through the pe…

Hand and Ring

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.4
Widow Clemmens is struck down in her parlor while the town's legal professionals chat outside the courthouse down the street. An investigati…

Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
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…

Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
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…

The Witness for the Defence

by A. E. W. Mason Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4.6
Part romance, part mystery, part courtroom and quasi-courtroom drama. Young love reignites itself after a hiatus of some years. Or does it? …

Hide and Seek

by Wilkie Collins Read by Anna Simon 4.6
The artist Valentine Blyth has a very generous heart. He lovingly cares for his invalid wife, rescues a deaf orphan girl from maltreatment i…

Anne of Green Gables

by Lucy Maud Montgomery Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Red-haired Anne Shirley, the orphan girl mistakenly sent to live with Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, has been one of the world's most beloved…

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.9
Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's classic comic romance, in which the five Bennett sisters try to find that most elusive creature: a sing…

The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel

by Baroness Emma Orczy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The last of the famous "Scarlet Pimpernel" books, the "Triumph" tells the story of the final confrontation between the S…

No Thoroughfare

by Charles Dickens Read by Alan Chant 4.7
Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, with disastrous consequences in adulthood. Two associates, wishing to right th…

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

by Victor Hugo Read by Mark Nelson 4.7
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…

Ethan Frome

by Edith Wharton Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.5
Edith Wharton's 1911 novel Ethan Frome tells the story of a tragic love triangle. Set in the highly symbolic wintry landscape of Starkfield,…

Jill the Reckless

by P. G. Wodehouse Read by Don W. Jenkins 4.7
Jill had money, Jill was engaged to be married to Sir Derek Underhill. Suddenly Jill becomes penniless, and she is no longer engaged. With a…

Mary Marston

by George MacDonald Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Written at the height of George MacDonald's literary career, the story centers around the life of a simple merchant's daughter. Mary Marston…

Escape

4.8
Escape is a dramatic adventure anthology series that aired from 1947 to 1954. Known for its shifting time slots, it captivated audiences wit…

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