Drama

Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady

by Samuel Richardson Read by Nicole Lee 4.4
Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady is a profound exploration of virtue and the struggles of a young woman in 18th-century Engl…

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 …

Titus Andronicus

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Titus Andronicus may be Shakespeare's earliest tragedy; it is believed to have been written in the early 1590s. It depicts a Roman general w…

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 …

The Secret Sharer

by Joseph Conrad Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012) 4.3
A young untested ship captain finds a man named Leggatt clinging to the side of his ship. The Captain makes the unusual decision to hide Leg…

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

by Christopher Marlowe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is a powerful exploration of ambition, knowledge, and the human condition, penned by Christopher Marl…

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 Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby

by Charles Dickens Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
The action takes place in London, with excursions to Devon, Yorkshire, and Portsmouth, as we follow the adventures of the eponymous hero. Ni…

The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy Read by Debra Lynn 4.6
The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) is a tragic novel by English author Thomas Hardy subtitled, "The Life and Death of a Man of Character&…

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals w…

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…

Poetics

by Aristotle Read by Robert Foster 3.8
Aristotle’s Poetics from the 4th century B.C. aims to give a short study of storytelling. It discusses things like unity of plot, reversal o…

Persuasion

by Jane Austen Read by Madame Tusk 4.6
Persuasion is a regency Cinderella-esque tale of a young woman, the beautiful Anne Elliot, who is persuaded from marrying the Naval officer …

The Three Sisters

by Anton Chekhov Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Three Sisters is a naturalistic play about the decay of the privileged class in Russia and the search for meaning in the modern world. It de…

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad Read by Kristin LeMoine 3.9
Set in a time of oppressive colonisation, when large areas of the world were still unknown to Europe, and Africa was literally on maps and m…

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 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 Trespasser

by D. H. Lawrence Read by Martin Geeson 3.9
Brief Encounter meets Tristan und Isolde - on the Isle of Wight, under a vast sky florid with stars. The consequence is tragic indeed for on…

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…

Hercule Poirot

4.1
A small time private detective seeks and fails to persuade Poirot to assist him in finding a missing woman for his client. Meanwhile, the po…

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