Drama

The Lamplighter

by Maria Susanna Cummins Read by Bridget Gaige 4.8
Gertrude began life as an abused child in the care of Nan Grant, a cold and cruel woman. The only human character who was kind to her was th…

Bartleby, the Scrivener

by Herman Melville Read by Bob Neufeld 4.6
Bartleby, the Scrivener is a thought-provoking novella that explores the complexities of human behavior and the nature of work through the e…

Far From The Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy Read by Tadhg 4.8
Far From The Madding Crowd is Hardy's fourth novel. It centres on the lives of five characters: Gabriel Oak, Bathsheba Everdene, Mr Boldwood…

Poor Miss Finch

by Wilkie Collins Read by Sandra G 4.6
“Poor Miss Finch.” That is what everyone calls the courageous protagonist of this book. In other words, “poor thing, she’s blind, isn’t it a…

Ester Ried's Namesake

by Pansy Read by TriciaG 4.7
In Ester Ried's Namesake, Esther Ried Randall grapples with the weight of her name and the expectations that come with it. As she navigates …

Anne of Green Gables

by Lucy Maud Montgomery Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Red-haired Anne Shirley, the orphan girl mistakenly sent to live with Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, has been one of the world's most beloved…

Hand and Ring

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.4
Widow Clemmens is struck down in her parlor while the town's legal professionals chat outside the courthouse down the street. An investigati…

The Witness for the Defence

by A. E. W. Mason Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4.6
Part romance, part mystery, part courtroom and quasi-courtroom drama. Young love reignites itself after a hiatus of some years. Or does it? …

Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
This is book 5 of 5. An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the w…

Pygmalion

by George Bernard Shaw Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Pygmalion (1913) is a play by George Bernard Shaw based on the Greek myth of the same name. It tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor…

The Awakening

by Kate Chopin Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.4
Kate Chopin's 1899 novella The Awakening is about the personal, sexual, and artistic awakening of a young wife and mother, Edna Pontellier. …

No Name

by Wilkie Collins Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The story begins in 1846, at Combe-Raven in West Somersetshire, the country residence of the happy Vanstone family. When Andrew Vanstone is …

Rachel Ray

by Anthony Trollope Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The love that develops between Luke Rowan and Rachel Ray is not universally welcomed. Mrs. Tappitt- a rich, influential, and bad woman - wis…

Escape

4.8
Escape is a dramatic adventure anthology series that aired from 1947 to 1954. Known for its shifting time slots, it captivated audiences wit…

The Honor of the Big Snows

by James Oliver Curwood Read by Roger Melin 4.5
What unseen force may have brought young Jan Thoreau and his music from out of the barren lands into the remote camp of Lac Bain, forever ch…

Summer

by Edith Wharton Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.4
Wharton's 1917 novella Summer, like her more famous work Ethan Frome, is set in a very small rural New England town. Charity Royall longs t…

A Laodicean

by Thomas Hardy Read by Simon Evers 4.5
The Laodicean (someone whose religious beliefs are “lukewarm”) of the title is Paula Power who bought the ancient castle De Stancy which she…

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
A mysterious young widow arrives at Wildfell Hall, an Elizabethan mansion which has been empty for many years, with her young son. She lives…

Rainbow Valley

by Lucy Maud Montgomery Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Anne Shirley is grown up and married, and her six children are off having their own adventures with the Merediths - the four children of a w…

Hide and Seek

by Wilkie Collins Read by Anna Simon 4.6
The artist Valentine Blyth has a very generous heart. He lovingly cares for his invalid wife, rescues a deaf orphan girl from maltreatment i…

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