Literary Fiction
The Guermantes Way (Le Côté de Guermantes)
Read by Michael O'Kelly
Marcel Proust
Vols. 3 and 4 of Remembrance of Things Past.The hero, Marcel, meets the duchess of Guermantes in the role of his parent's landlady. The hero…
Typhoon and Other Stories
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
An impossibly imperturbable old sea captain, with two hundred Chinese labourers aboard his steamship, faces a terrifying typhoon for the fir…
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
Henry Fielding
"I do not pretend to say the young man is without faults; but they are all the faults of wildness and of youth; faults which he may, na…
An Outcast of the Islands (Version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
This, Conrad's second, novel serves as an illuminating prequel of his first, 'Almayer's Folly', teasing out the origins of the factional ten…
A Man Could Stand Up
Read by Peter Dann
Ford Madox Ford
'A Man Could Stand Up' is the third, and culminating, part of Ford Madox Ford's 'Parade's End' tetralogy of novels, which begins with 'Some …
Ursula
Read by Bruce Pirie
Honoré de Balzac
“Ursula,” first published in French in 1841 as “Ursule Mirouët,” is part of Balzac’s great suite of novels, collectively titled “The Hu…
The House on the Marsh: A Romance
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Florence Warden
Violet Christie is just 18 years old as she heads towards her first position as a governess. She tries to be enthusiastic about the Norfolk …
The Black Candle
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
Emily Murphy
Emily Murphy wrote about the Vancouver, BC Downtown Eastside and its various residents. This is one of her quotes from the book - "It …
The Ball at Sceaux
Read by Bruce Pirie
Honoré de Balzac
The novella “The Ball at Sceaux” is part of Balzac’s great life work — the expansive fiction series titled “The Human Comedy.” The central c…
Within The Tides
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
A self-important English philosopher and his haughty, beautiful daughter sail to the South Pacific in hope of locating the daughter's wrongl…
César Birotteau
Read by Bruce Pirie
Honoré de Balzac
“Rise and Fall of César Birotteau” (1837) is part of Balzac’s great novel series titled “The Human Comedy.”The story is set in Paris,…
Lore of Proserpine
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Maurice Henry Hewlett
If a thing is not sensibly true it may be morally so. If it is not phenomenally true it may be so substantially. And it is possible that one…
Anthem (Version 6)
Read by Scotty Smith
Ayn Rand
A novelette set in the distant future, perhaps thousands of years. Technology has been lost and advancement suppressed. The people have eith…
Thyrza
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George Gissing
Thyrza is a working class woman. Three men are in love with her. Even though she is engaged to a man of her class, who is very kind, she fal…
Under Western Eyes (version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
"But it is a vain enterprise for sophisticated Europe to try and understand these doings." Set in St Petersburg and Geneva, this a…
Harmer John; An Unworldly Story
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
Hjalmar Johanson (novel, 1926) is a boyish unworldly Swedish body builder come to Walpole’s fictional cathedral town of Polchester. His name…
In a German Pension, Version 2
Read by Peter Dann
Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield was only 22 years old when these stories were first published in book form. Mansfield was later reluctant to see them re…
The Fortunes of Nigel
Read by Jim Locke
Sir Walter Scott
During the turbulent moment in English history involving King James 1 and 6, Nigel Olifaunt, a Scottish lord, seeks to protect his family ho…
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 13
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Various
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Tales from Ariosto
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Ludovico Ariosto and Joseph Shield Nicholson
The object of the present venture is to do something to revive the interest of the ordinary English reader in Ariosto. The present volume is…