Drama

Major Barbara

by George Bernard Shaw Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara focuses on the family of aristocratic Lady Britomart Undershaft and her estranged husband Andrew, a mill…

Henry VIII

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
This is Shakespeare's dutiful trubute to one of the most imposing and terrifying rulers in European history. The kingdom trembles as the gia…

The House of the White Shadows

by B. J. Farjeon and B. L. Farjeon Read by Roger Melin 4.2
Is a defense attorney bound to defend his client, or with his conscience, when he knows that the man he is defending is guilty of the charge…

Lysistrata

by Aristophanes Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Lysistrata has had enough. She is tired of the constant war that is ravaging Greece and has come up with a solution: Together with female fr…

At the Foot of the Rainbow

by Gene Stratton-Porter Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
This story is about three people, two men and a woman. Jimmy, selfish and deceitful, who has shamelessly lied to, cheated, and used his dear…

As You Like It

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Shakespeare's pastoral comedy was written and first performed around 1599, and presents some of his familiar motifs: a cross-dressing heroin…

Oedipus at Colonus

by Sophocles Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
This is the second installment in Sophocles's Theban Plays that chronicles the tragic fates of Oedipus and his family. After fulfilling the…

The Machine

by Upton Sinclair Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Upton Sinclair is best known for his novel The Jungle, an expose of the meatpacking industry. He was also a playwright whose works for the s…

The Jew of Malta

by Christopher Marlowe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Christopher “Kit” Marlowe (baptised 26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593) was an English dramatist, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. T…

Farewell

by Honoré de Balzac Read by Martin Geeson 4.4
In his startling and tragic novella Farewell (‘Adieu’), Balzac adds to the 19th century’s literature of the hysterical woman: sequestered, c…

The Pirates of Penzance

by W. S. Gilbert Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. Th…

The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
Probably the most famous allegory ever written of the Christian life, The Pilgrim's Progress follows the journey of Christian from his first…

Twelfth Night

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Shakespeare's great festive comedy, probably written and first performed around 1601, follows the adventures of twins Viola and Sebastian, w…

The Spanish Tragedy

by Thomas Kyd Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
The Spanish Tragedy, or Hieronimo is Mad Again is an Elizabethan tragedy written by Thomas Kyd between 1582 and 1592. Highly popular and inf…

Bel Ami

by Guy de Maupassant Read by Martin Geeson 4.5
“He had faith in his good fortune, in that power of attraction which he felt within him - a power so irresistible that all women yielded to …

Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens Read by Peter John Keeble 4.4
Oliver Twist was published in 1838 as a three volume book. The novel was the first of Dickens' works to realistically portray the degradatio…

Where Angels Fear to Tread

by E. M. Forster Read by Julie Pandya 4
On a journey to Tuscany with her young friend and traveling companion Caroline Abbott, widowed Lilia Herriton falls in love with both Italy …

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens Read by Michael Armenta 4.6
"This short collection of 6 selected scenes from "David Copperfield" were abridged and performed by Dickens himself during hi…

Sanctuary

by Edith Wharton Read by Jacquerie 4.3
Kate Orme, shocked by the discovery of her fiance's complicity in a tragedy, and by society's willingness to overlook such transgressions, n…

Love's Labour's Lost

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Love's Labour's Lost is an early comedy by William Shakespeare. The King of Navarre and his three friends take a vow of study and seclusion…

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