Literary Fiction

Ward No. 6

Read by Expatriate


Anton Chekhov


The line between sanity and insanity is blurred in this classic novella by Anton Chekhov. The disillusioned idealist Dr. Rabin is in charge…

Historia de la vida del Buscón, llamado Don Pablos, ejemplo de vagabundos y esp…

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Francisco De Quevedo


Clásica novela picaresca española del Siglo de Oro, del gran Don Francisco de Quevedo. En ella se narran las extravagantes and…

The Beautiful and Damned (Version 2)

Read by Mark Nelson


F. Scott Fitzgerald


This 1922 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald chronicles the life of Anthony Patch, the only heir of millionaire Adam Patch, his grandfather. Antho…

Swann's Way (Version 2)

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Marcel Proust


"Swann's Way" is the first of the seven parts of Marcel Proust's great autobiographical novel "In Search of Lost Time." …

Die toten Seelen

Read by Eva K.


Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol


Pawel Tschitschikow entwirft eine groteske Idee, die ihn zu Geld bringen soll. Er macht Geschäfte mit Leibeigenen, und zwar mit toten! …

The Pickwick Papers (version 3)

Read by Hamlet


Charles Dickens


Mr Pickwick, founder of the Pickwick Club, sets out with his three friends, Tupman, Snodgrass, and Winkle, to observe the world. They inten…

Crime and Punishment (Version 4 Dramatic Reading)

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky


The story tells of the inner turmoil of Rodion Raskolnikov, a student in St. Petersburg who commits murder. His psychological and moral agit…

The Sun Also Rises

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Ernest Hemingway


The Sun Also Rises (1926) was Hemingway's first novel to be published, though there is his novella The Torrents of Spring which was publishe…

Marguerite de Valois

Read by John Van Stan


Alexandre Dumas


A historical fiction novel set in Paris (1572) during Charles IX's reign and the French Wars of Religion. Marguerite de Valois, daughter of …

Sister Carrie

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Theodore Dreiser


Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945) was an American author of the naturalist school, known for dealing with the gritty reality of life. Sister Carr…

La garçonne

Read by Pauline Latournerie


Victor Margueritte


Ce "roman de moeurs" à thèse présente une jeune femme indépendante menant une vie sexuelle très…

The Dream of the Red Chamber Book I

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Xueqin Cao


The Dream of the Red Chamber (also known as The Story of the Stone) is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of China, and considered the g…

Florentinische Nächte

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Heinrich Heine


Maximilian erzählt seiner kranken Freundin auf Anraten des Arztes "närrische Geschichten", damit sie ruhig liegen bleibt…

Cuentos de Hadas

Read by Victor Villarraza


Charles Perrault


Perrault fue un autor francés que puso las bases por escrito de un nuevo género que haría historia, la de los "Cue…

Hunger

Read by Greg W.


Knut Hamsun


Hunger (Norwegian: Sult) is a novel by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun and was published in its final form in 1890. The novel has been hail…

Hide and Seek

Read by Anna Simon


Wilkie Collins


The artist Valentine Blyth has a very generous heart. He lovingly cares for his invalid wife, rescues a deaf orphan girl from maltreatment i…

The Aspern Papers

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


One of James’s favorite short novels, the Aspern Papers tells of the efforts of the nameless narrator to procure the papers of a famous, bu…

Sons and Lovers (Version 2)

Read by Tony Foster


D. H. Lawrence


Lawrence summarised the plot of Sons and Lovers in a letter to Edward Garnett in 1912:“It follows this idea: a woman of character and refine…

こころ (Kokoro)

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Sōseki Natsume


語り手は、鎌倉の海岸で、先生と知り合いになる。東京に戻ってからも度々、先生の家を訪ねた。先生は、苦悩持っていた。先生の友人Ｋが、先生が若い頃に自殺をした。先生は、毎月、その友人の墓を訪ねていた。　語り手が、大学を卒業し、父の病の為に帰省したままで、東京に戻れない時、先生からの遺書…

Nicht der Mörder, der Ermordete ist schuldig

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Franz Werfel


Karl Duschek steht im Schatten seines dominanten, strengen, unerbittlichen Vaters, der ein äußerst erfolgreicher Offizier der KuK…

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