Drama

The Oresteia

by Aeschylus Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
The Oresteia is a trilogy by Aeschylus, one of the foremost playwrights of ancient Greece. It encompasses three plays: Agamemnon, The Libati…

The Merry Wives of Windsor

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
The Merry Wives of Windsor is a lively comedy by William Shakespeare that centers on the misadventures of Sir John Falstaff, a rotund knight…

The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde Read by John Gonzalez 4.5
Dorian Gray, a young man of wealth and stature in late 1800's London, meets Lord Henry Wotton while posing for a portrait by his friend Basi…

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 …

The Comedy of Errors

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's earliest plays, believed to have been written between 1592 and 1594. It is his shortest…

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…

Hidden Harbor Mysteries

by Jay Smith Read by Jay Smith 4.2
Hidden Harbor, USA. It is a time of war and hardship for millions of Americans, many of whom live in a city of lies and corruption. But the…

Ben Hur

by Lew Wallace Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
In this dramatic reading of the classic epic Ben Hur, rediscover the wonder of three wise men who travel through the wilderness together. Th…

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…

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 Symposium

by Plato Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
In one of Plato's more accessible works, Apollodorus tells a friend about a drinking party (or symposium) attended by many of intellectuals …

Don Juan

by George Gordon, Lord Byron Read by Peter Gallagher 4.5
Don Juan is a long narrative poem by Byron, based very loosely on the legend of the evil seducer, Don Juan. The first and second of (eventua…

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 Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
The Brothers Karamazov (Russian: Братья Карамазовы) is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, and is generally considered …

Daisy Miller

by Henry James Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Daisy Miller is an 1878 novella by Henry James first appearing in Cornhill Magazine in June–July 1879, and in book form the following year. …

Aquis submersus

by Theodor Storm Read by Christian Al-Kadi 4.8
Das rätselhafte Porträt eines toten Knaben und die Aufzeichnungen des Malers Johannes aus dem 17. Jahrhundert führen den Erz&…

Troilus and Cressida

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Troilus and Cressida is Shakespeare's "problem" play about the Trojan War. As the opening Chorus tells us, the play "begins …

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…

The Proposal

by Anton Chekhov Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
The Proposal is a one act comic farce by Anton Chekhov. In Chekhov's Russia, marriage was a means of economic stability for most people. The…

'Tis Pity She's a Whore

by John Ford Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
One of the most shocking plays produced in England during the reign of Charles I, 'Tis Pity She's A Whore chronicles the disastrous results …

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