Literature
The City of God
Read by Darren L. Slider
Saint Augustine of Hippo
Rome having been stormed and sacked by the Goths under Alaric their king, the worshippers of false gods, or pagans, as we commonly call them…
Crime and Punishment
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished St. Petersburg stude…
Pride and Prejudice (version 4)
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's classic comic romance, in which the five Bennett sisters try to find that most elusive creature: a sing…
Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus (1818)
Read by Cori Samuel
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. Shelley wrote the novel when she was 18 years…
Don Quixote - Vol. 1
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in …
Heart of Darkness (version 2)
Read by Bob Neufeld
Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. Before its 1903 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood…
Anne's House of Dreams (version 2)
Read by Karen Savage
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne's story continues with her marriage to Gilbert and their years in the House of Dreams. ( Summary by Karen Savage)Other books in this se…
The Grey Woman
Read by Jane Greensmith
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
A "Bluebeard" story in which a young woman marries a man whom she discovers has killed his previous wives and is trying to kill he…
Robinson Crusoe (version 2)
Read by Mark F. Smith
Daniel Defoe
Shipwrecked and castaway, Daniel DeFoe’s hard-luck character is still the standard for “growing where you’re planted.” Captured by pirates, …
The Man Who Would Be King
Read by Philippa
Rudyard Kipling
The Man Who Would Be King tells the story of two British adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afgha…
The Beautiful and Damned
Read by E. Tavano
F. Scott Fitzgerald
This novel tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1920s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune; the relationship with his wife Gl…
Sense and Sensibility (version 3)
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's first published novel, focuses on the lives and loves of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. The…
Wives and Daughters (version 2)
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel was serialized in Cornhill Magazine from 1864 to 1866, and completed by her editor posthumously. It looks at …
The Jungle
Read by Tom Weiss
Upton Sinclair
It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better…
Jane Eyre (version 3 dramatic reading)
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Charlotte Brontë
Primarily of the bildungsroman genre, Jane Eyre follows the emotions and experiences of eponymous Jane Eyre, her growth to adulthood, and he…
Wuthering Heights (version 3 dramatic reading)
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Emily Brontë
The story centers on the all-encompassing, passionate, but ultimately doomed love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, and how this un…
The Turn of the Screw (version 2)
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Henry James
Henry James' classic ghost story comprises the written testimony of a young governess, charged with looking after two small children at an i…
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (version 3)
Read by Bob Neufeld
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novel written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was fi…
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 4)
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade), often shortened to Huck Finn, is a novel written by Mark Twain and published in 1884.…
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Read by Adrian Praetzellis
Thomas Hardy
One of the greatest English tragic novels, TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES (1891) is the story of a “pure woman” who is victimized both by convent…