Drama

Hard Times

by Charles Dickens Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Hard Times, the shortest of Dickens's full-length novels, is set in the fictitious Victorian-England city of Coketown, where facts are the r…

Night and Day

by Virginia Woolf Read by J. M. Smallheer 4.3
Night and Day (1919) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives of two friends, Katharin…

The Woman Who Did

by Grant Allen Read by Ruth Golding 4.5
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…

The Flood

by Émile Zola Read by R. S. Steinberg 4.7
A well-to-do French farm family is destroyed by a flood. The story, thrilling to the very end, is told from the point of view of the family…

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…

The Price of Love

by Arnold Bennett Read by Christine Blachford 4.3
Rachel Louise Fleckring works for the elderly Mrs Maldon, and although with the woman for only a short time, she is taken into the heart of …

King Lear

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The Tragedy of King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The title character descends into madness after foolishly disposing of his est…

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…

Armadale

by Wilkie Collins Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
The novel has a convoluted plot about two distant cousins both named Allan Armadale. The father of one had murdered the father of the other …

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…

Anne of the Island

by Lucy Maud Montgomery Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
This is the continuing story of Anne Shirley and the third book in the Anne of Green Gables series. In it Anne attends Redmond College where…

Uncle Vanya

by Anton Chekhov Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Uncle Vanya (subtitled “Scenes From Country Life”) is a tragicomedy by Anton Chekhov. It is set on the failing country estate of a retired p…

Casey, Crime Photographer

4.3
Casey, Crime Photographer is a captivating radio series that originally aired from July 7, 1943, to April 22, 1955. Over its run, a total of…

Chicot the Jester

by Alexandre Dumas Read by John Van Stan 4.3
This sequel to Dumas' “Marguerite de Valois” begins four years after the sudden death of King Charles IX and succession of his brother Henry…

The Old Curiosity Shop

by Charles Dickens Read by Euthymius 4.6
The Old Curiosity Shop tells the story of Little Nell, a beautiful and virtuous young girl who lives with her grandfather in his shop of cur…

One Commonplace Day

by Pansy Read by TriciaG 4.4
A temperance lecturer misses his train and ends up attending a town picnic. It was a common enough picnic on a commonplace day. But the disc…

As You Like It

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
One of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, As You Like It is a pastoral comedy of mistaken identity, wit, and love. Daughter of a banished duk…

Emma

by Jane Austen Read by Moira Fogarty 4.8
A cautionary tale about the evils of interference, matchmaking and good intentions turned awry, Emma is the study of a young woman raised wi…

Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen Read by Mark F. Smith 4.8
This is a story of the English moneyed class and its eternal struggle for creating “sense and sensibility” in its world. A potential marriag…

A Doll's House

by Henrik Ibsen Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
A Doll's House is a groundbreaking play by Henrik Ibsen that challenges the conventions of 19th-century marriage and gender roles. At its ce…

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