Drama

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy Read by Adrian Praetzellis 4.7
One of the greatest English tragic novels, TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES (1891) is the story of a “pure woman” who is victimized both by convent…

Orley Farm

by Anthony Trollope Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024) 4.5
Orley Farm is Trollope at his best (as good as the Barsetshire series), which means some of the best characterizations in the English langua…

Bartleby, the Scrivener

by Herman Melville Read by Bob Neufeld 4.6
Bartleby, the Scrivener is a thought-provoking novella that explores the complexities of human behavior and the nature of work through the e…

Pygmalion

by George Bernard Shaw Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Pygmalion (1913) is a play by George Bernard Shaw based on the Greek myth of the same name. It tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor…

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…

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens Read by Paul Adams 4.8
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 2…

No Name

by Wilkie Collins Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The story begins in 1846, at Combe-Raven in West Somersetshire, the country residence of the happy Vanstone family. When Andrew Vanstone is …

CBS Radio Workshop

by CBS Radio Workshop 4.7
CBS Radio Workshop was a revival of the Columbia Workshop of the late thirties. All 86 episodes survive today. The series aired from January…

Mansfield Park

by Jane Austen Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Mansfield Park is Jane Austen's 1814 novel focusing on Fanny Price, the daughter of a poor Portsmouth family, who is taken to live with her …

What Maisie Knew

by Henry James Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.1
What Maisie Knew is a poignant exploration of childhood innocence amidst the turmoil of adult relationships. When young Maisie Farange is ca…

Rachel Ray

by Anthony Trollope Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The love that develops between Luke Rowan and Rachel Ray is not universally welcomed. Mrs. Tappitt- a rich, influential, and bad woman - wis…

Oroonoko

by Aphra Behn Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.4
Aphra Behn was the first woman writer in England to make a living by her pen, and her novel Oroonoko was the first work published in English…

The Greater Inclination

by Edith Wharton Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.4
This is Edith Wharton's earliest published collection of short stories (1899). Like much of her later work, they touch on themes of marriag…

This Side of Paradise

by F. Scott Fitzgerald Read by Mark F. Smith 4.1
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 …

Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures

by Douglas William Jerrold Read by Martin Clifton 4.8
Douglas William Jerrold (1803-1857) was the son of an actor manager. After some time in the Navy and as an apprentice printer he became a pl…

The Last Chronicle of Barset

by Anthony Trollope Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Both Trollope and some of his later critics have considered The Last Chronicle to be his greatest novel. Many of its characters are familiar…

Agnes Grey

by Anne Brontë Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Agnes Grey is the daughter of a minister, whose family comes to financial ruin. Desperate to earn money to care for herself, she takes one o…

The Warden

by Anthony Trollope Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Amongst the great popular novelists of the nineteenth century who are still read today, Anthony Trollope stands alongside his contemporary, …

In His Steps

by Charles Monroe Sheldon Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
After a strange event at the Raymond First Church, Reverend Henry Maxwell asks his congregation a startling question: Will they pledge to tr…

Rainbow Valley

by Lucy Maud Montgomery Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Anne Shirley is grown up and married, and her six children are off having their own adventures with the Merediths - the four children of a w…

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