Drama

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…

He Knew He Was Right

by Anthony Trollope Read by Arielle Lipshaw 4.4
He Knew He Was Right is a 1869 novel written by Anthony Trollope which describes the failure of a marriage caused by the unreasonable jealou…

Aurora Floyd

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Aurora Floyd, the daughter of a rich banker and an actress, could not have had a better start: back from a finishing school in Paris, she is…

Hercule Poirot

4.3
A stock broker who fails to persuade Poirot to help him discourage an actor from marrying his daughter is framed for the actor's murder. Joi…

Manalive

by G. K. Chesterton Read by Ray Clare 4.2
The flying blast struck London just where it scales the northern heights, terrace above terrace, as precipitous as Edinburgh. It was round a…

Can You Forgive Her?

by Anthony Trollope Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
“Can You Forgive Her?” is the first in a series of six Trollope novels dealing broadly with 19th Century English political scene. It introdu…

Kilmeny of the Orchard

by Lucy Maud Montgomery Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
A short and sweet romance by the author of "Anne of Green Gables", Kilmeny of the Orchard is a story about a schoolteacher (Eric) …

Arms and the Man

by George Bernard Shaw Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw that takes place in 1885, during the Serbo-Bulgarian War. Raina Petkoff is engaged to t…

The Dawn of a To-morrow

by Frances Hodgson Burnett Read by Linda Andrus 4.4
A wealthy London business man takes a room in a poor part of the city.He is depressed and has decided to take his life by going the next day…

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…

North and South

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Set in Victorian England, North and South is the story of Margaret Hale, a young woman whose life is turned upside down when her family relo…

The Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka Read by David Barnes 4.5
The Metamorphosis (in German, Die Verwandlung, "The Transformation") is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915, and arg…

The Woman Who Did

by Grant Allen Read by Ruth Golding 4.6
Most times, especially in the time when this book was written (1895), it is just as nature and society would wish: a man and woman "fal…

Ward No. 6

by Anton Chekhov Read by Expatriate 4.6
The line between sanity and insanity is blurred in this classic novella by Anton Chekhov. The disillusioned idealist Dr. Rabin is in charge…

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…

The Aspern Papers

by Henry James Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4.5
One of James’s favorite short novels, the Aspern Papers tells of the efforts of the nameless narrator to procure the papers of a famous, bu…

Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Written around the middle of his career, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare's great festive comedies. The men are back from the w…

Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and offers in ample measure the details of English rural life that Hardy so…

The Mysterious Traveler

by Robert Arthur and David Kogan 4.5
The Mysterious Traveler is an engaging old time radio (OTR) show that captivates listeners with its excellent mystery and suspense storyline…

The Sign of the Four

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Sign of the Four, the second of four novels featuring Sherlock Holmes, has a complex plot involving India, a stolen treasure, and a secr…

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