Literary Fiction
Vignettes of San Francisco
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Almira Bailey
A collection of observations and stories about San Franciscan life - the people, the buildings, the parks, the food, the street-cars, the ba…
Mr. Waddington of Wyck
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May Sinclair
May Sinclair’s 1921 novel tells the story of the ridiculous Mr. Horatio Bysshe Waddington, a pompous, self-deluded poser making his way thro…
The Beast in the Jungle (version 2)
Read by Tony Addison
Henry James
One of James's last great stories, it is not actually a ghost story but has every claim to be considered such with its mysterious spectral e…
The Shooting Party
Read by Bryn Roberts
Anton Chekhov
"The Shooting Party" is a mystery, set in the Russian countryside. The story revolves around the murder of a beautiful young woman…
Een Kerstlied in Proza (A Christmas Carol)
Read by Bart de Leeuw
Charles Dickens
'A Christmas Carol' is een Victoriaanse allegorie over een oude en verbitterde vrek, Ebenezer Scrooge, die in de nacht voor Kerstmis een aan…
The Master's Violin
Read by Daryl Wor
Myrtle Reed
Originally published in 1904, “The Master’s Violin” is the seventh novel by Myrtle Reed. It is set in a German town of Pennsylvania, East La…
The Prelude To Adventure
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
Olva Dune is a Cambridge undergraduate who commits a murder and at that moment feels the presence of God. In a tour de force Walpole noveliz…
Silas Marner (Version 3)
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George Eliot
Silas Marner is a hermit-style weaver who keeps to himself and is eyed with suspicion by those in the nearby town of Raveloe. Dispelled from…
Whose Body? (Version 3 - dramatic reading)
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Dorothy L. Sayers
In Dorothy Sayers' first Lord Peter Wimsey novel, our brilliant and eccentric hero must solve the case of the murder of Sir Reuben Levy - th…
Het Verlaten Huis
Read by Marcel Coenders
Charles Dickens
Verhaal over een zeer langdurig en vooral kostbaar juridisch proces, dat uiteindelijk toch tot een einde komt. In schril contrast met de nob…
Steppenwolf
Read by Ben Tucker
Hermann Hesse
This controversial literary classic paints the portrait of a man who perceives himself to live in two worlds, that of the idealist, cowed an…
The Immortal Moment
Read by Kirsten Wever
May Sinclair
This is one of the later works of May Sinclair – a prolific author, literary critic, and feminist activist – famous in Britain and the US af…
The Garden Party, and Other Stories version 2
Read by Peter Dann
Katherine Mansfield
The imagination responsible for these remarkable stories, the third and final collection published in Mansfield's lifetime, is clearly livin…
The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Volume 4
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Marguerite Of Navarre
THE HEPTAMERON (here Volume 4 of 5), first published posthumously in 1558, is divided into seven complete days containing 10 stories each, a…
La bolsa de huesos
Read by Victor Villarraza
Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg
La bolsa de huesos es una novela policíaca del escritor argentino Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg (Buenos Aires, 27 de junio de 1852 – ib&i…
Extaze, een boek van geluk
Read by Marcel Coenders
Louis Couperus
Het verhaal van een onmogelijke liefde. Naar mijne meening is het werk 'Extaze' zeer superieur aan de vorige werken van den Heer Couperus, '…
'Twixt Land and Sea
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
While the central figures in each of the three stories in this collection are sailing captains, the main action in two of them takes place o…
Psyche
Read by Marcel Coenders
Louis Couperus
Psyche is een poëtische vertelling, symboliseerend een opvatting van Mensch en Wereld. Drie factoren beheerschen het menschenbestaan, d…
La Lecture, tome 2
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Various
La Lecture était une revue littéraire bi-mensuelle française de la fin du 19e siècle, publiant surtout des nouve…
The Hermit and the Wild Woman, and other Stories
Read by Winnifred Assmann
Edith Wharton
Seven short stories by Edith Wharton, American author of The House of Mirth. "The Hermit and the Wild Woman" (rather differen…