Literary Fiction

The Making of Americans

by Gertrude Stein Read by Martha H. Weller 3
The Making of Americans is a novel written by Gertrude Stein over a long period of time (1906-1911) and finally published in 1925. It is sub…

Scarlet Sister Mary

by Julia Peterkin Read by Jim Locke 4.5
How did 1929 Pulitzer winner and white plantation mistress Julia Peterkin become a favorite of the Harlem Renaissance? According to W.E.B. D…

The Blacker the Berry

by Wallace Thurman Read by James K. White 4.3
An exploration into the life of young African American, Emma Lou, whose self-image is negatively impacted by the stigmas of colorism and int…

The Fate

by George Payne Rainsford James Read by Lynne T 4.4
The lot of a younger son was less assured than his older brother in days gone by. It was worse for his descendant, especially if he wanted t…

Annouchka

by Ivan Turgenev Read by Rapunzelina 5
When N—— met Annouchka. A graceful story of innocence, love, coming of age, and friendship, set between two picturesque towns on the banks o…

At the Sign of the Cat and Racket

by Honoré de Balzac Read by Bruce Pirie 4.3
The short novel “At the Sign of the Cat and Racket” was one of Balzac’s earliest fictions, first published in 1830 and substantially revised…

The Marriage Contract

by Honoré de Balzac Read by Bruce Pirie 4.8
Balzac’s novel “The Marriage Contract” (1835) is part of his “Scenes of Private Life,” which is one section of “The Human Comedy,” his great…

A Second Home

by Honoré de Balzac Read by Bruce Pirie 4.7
This novella was first published in French in 1830, with the title “La femme vertueuse” (“The virtuous woman”). In an 1842 edition, the titl…

Immer Mutig

by Paul Scheerbart Read by seito 3.2
"... ein phantastischer Nilpferdroman" - das sind 83 phantastische, skurrile, seltsame Erzählungen, Fabeln, Glossen, locker v…

The Goodness of St. Rocque

by Alice Dunbar Nelson Read by Jim Locke 3.5
These stories focus on the Creole society of New Orleans and in the process reveals issues facing black Americans at the end of the nineteen…

Free

by Theodore Dreiser Read by James Hutchisson 5
Theodore Dreiser's first collection of short fiction, published in 1918. Dreiser was known primarily as a novelist (Sister Carrie, An Americ…

El Habitante y Su Esperanza

by Pablo Neruda Read by mpinedag 4.8
Conocido mayormente como poeta, el chileno Pablo Neruda publicó esta noveleta (60 págs.) en 1926. Trata de la vida diaria de u…

Το μόνον της ζωής του ταξείδιον

by Georgios Vizyinos Read by Penelope 5
Σε αυτό το διήγημα η φαντασία αγκαλιάζει την πραγματικότητα όπως στα παραμύθια.Ο παππούς ζει μέσα στη φαντασία του ιστορίες για βασιλοπούλες…

Stanton White

by Asa Zadel Hall Read by James K. White 4
In this tome the Northern narrator, Harold Edson, visits the American South with his college friend, Stanton White, in order to study first …

Der Schüdderump

by Wilhelm Raabe Read by josvanaken 4.1
Band 2 der dreibändigen Ausgabe des Romans "Der Schüdderump" von Wilhelm Raabe. Der "Schüdderump" ist die…

Mopes de kluizenaar

by Charles Dickens Read by Marcel Coenders 2.8
Vertaling van 'Tom Tidler's ground' het kerstverhaal uit 1861. Het boek is geschreven in samenwerking met Wilkie Collins, Charles Allston Co…

En la Diestra de Dios Padre

by Tomás Carrasquilla Read by Consuelo Aponte 4.6
Este cuento es un icono de la cultura antioqueña en Colombia que muestra con una rica descripción, en un lenguaje popular y c&…

I and My Chimney

by Herman Melville Read by Louise J. Belle 4.8
Herman Melville (1819–1891) is best known for his epic novel Moby Dick (1851), as well as the short story “Bartleby the Scrivener” (1853) an…

The King of Elfland's Daughter

by Lord Dunsany Read by Thomas A. Copeland 5
The councilmen of an undistinguished hamlet entreat their ruler to find a way of ensuring that his successor will acquire some magic to add …

Ferragus, Chief of the Dévorants

by Honoré de Balzac Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Why would someone with an immaculate reputation enter a house known for vices? A young officer sets out to uncover the "secret" of…

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