Literary Fiction
Oliver Twist (version 3)
Read by Peter John Keeble
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist was published in 1838 as a three volume book. The novel was the first of Dickens' works to realistically portray the degradatio…
Jonathan Frock
Read by Ramona Deininger-Schnabel
Heinrich Zschokke
Jonathan Frock hat es nicht leicht, zunächst wird er als Hauslehrer entlassen, weil er den Kindern zu viele freie Gedanken einflös…
La Barraca
Read by Mongope
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
La barraca nos cuenta la historia de Batiste y su familia que llegan a la huerta valenciana a trabajar cultivando unas tierras abandonadas. …
The King of Elfland's Daughter
Read by Michele Fry
Lord Dunsany
This is a 1924 fantasy novel by Anglo-Irish writer Lord Dunsany, which became public domain in January 2020. It is widely recognized as one …
Lost Illusions: A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
Read by Bruce Pirie
Honoré de Balzac
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Un grand homme de province à Paris, 1839) is the second book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy,…
Birds of Prey
Read by KirksVoice
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The first part of the book builds the characters of four con men who become interconnected and attempt their schemes on each other. This boo…
Werde, die Du bist
Read by Eva K.
Hedwig Dohm
Einer älteren Frau, Mutter und Großmutter, eröffnen sich nach dem Tode ihres Mannes Einsichten in neue Lebensperspektiven. G…
Our Mutual Friend, Version 2
Read by Don W. Jenkins
Charles Dickens
Our Mutual Friend (written in the years 1864–65) is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, …
Montezuma's Daughter
Read by Patrick79
H. Rider Haggard
A moving adventure story narrated by Thomas Wingfield, an Englishman, for Queen Elizabeth 1 of England about the murder of his mother, his t…
El huésped secreto
Read by Victor Villarraza
Joseph Conrad
La historia de El huésped secreto se abre con una minuciosa descripción del momento previo a la partida, del instante en que e…
Waverley, Volume 2
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Sir Walter Scott
Waverley is set during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in the person of Charles Edward Stuart (or…
Anne Severn and the Fieldings
Read by Expatriate
May Sinclair
Written in an era of cheap, formulaic romantic fiction, the nuanced, seditious, quietly erotic novels of May Sinclair stand out like literat…
Indian Summer (version 2)
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
William Dean Howells
Set in Florence's Anglo-American colony in the late 19th century, this is a romantic story of a middle-aged man, returning to the scene of h…
Los Miserables: Tomo V
Read by Mongope
Victor Hugo
Juan Valjean rescata a Mario gravemente herido y lo lleva a casa de su abuelo. Le perdona la vida a Javert, quien le confiesa que lo ha esta…
Lost Illusions: Two Poets
Read by Bruce Pirie
Honoré de Balzac
Two Poets (1837) is the first book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively titled La Co…
Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß
Read by Boris
Robert Musil
Der Roman thematisiert den Entwicklungs- und Selbstfindungsprozess des jungen Törleß, der zur Zeit der k. und k. - Monarchie in e…
Дворянское гнездо (Dvoryanskoe gnezdo)
Read by tovarisch
Ivan Turgenev
Главным героем романа является Фёдор Иванович Лаврецкий, дворянин, имеющий многие черты самого Тургенева, например в том, что воспитан он бы…
A Vital Question, or, What is to be Done?
Read by Expatriate
Nikolai Chernyshevsky
Despised by Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, What Is To Be Done? is a fascinating, sympathetic story of idealistic revolutionaries in mid-nineteenth…
The Portrait of a Lady (version 3)
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
Our central character is Isabel Archer of Albany, New York, a young woman of no great means, and no great beauty (that is, by her own estima…
The Steppe
Read by Expatriate
Anton Chekhov
Little Yegorushka goes off to school for the first time, setting out on the journey in the company of his Uncle Ivan, the local priest Fathe…