Literary Fiction

Jacob's Room (version 2)

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Virginia Woolf


Virginia Woolf’s third novel lacks a conventional narrative style and some say even a plot. It follows Jacob from his childhood, through his…

Germinal (English)

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Émile Zola


This epic about French coal miners and the burgeoning labor movement is considered one of Zola's finest novels. - Summary by Matt Pierard

The Awkward Age

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Henry James


Nanda Brookenham is coming of age, and thus 'coming out' in London society - which leads to complications in her family's social set in Lond…

In Vino Veritas, from Stages on Life’s Way

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Soren Kierkegaard


In Vino Veritas is one section of Kierkegaard's Stages on Life's Way, originally published in 1845. In a conscious reference to Plato's Symp…

The Colonel's Dream

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt


In this novel, Chesnutt described the hopelessness of Reconstruction in a post-Civil War South that was bent on reestablishing the former st…

The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid

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Thomas Hardy


A milkmaid, Margery, encounters a mysterious foreigner and perhaps prevents him from committing suicide. In gratitude, the man offers her an…

Cousin Pons

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Honoré de Balzac


Cousin Pons is one of the final works in Balzac's long novel series titled The Human Comedy. It was published in 1847, along with Cousin Bet…

Amelia (Vol. 1)

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Henry Fielding


This is the first volume of a three volume novel. In this novel, Amelia marries William Booth against her mother's desires, and the two must…

The Island of Doctor Moreau (Version 3)

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H. G. Wells


In 1896 HG Wells produced the Island of Doctor Moreau. After a fateful shipwreck, a chance rescue, and offer of safe harbor, Edward Prendick…

La maquina exploradora del tiempo

Read by Victor Villarraza


H. G. Wells


La primera novela de H. G. Wells, el primer libro de ciencia ficcion moderna, el primer viaje en el tiempo hacia el futuro y una obra maestr…

The Tysons

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May Sinclair


Another frank May Sinclair exploration of fin de siècle English love and sex, marriage and adultery, "The Tysons" is the st…

Don Quichot van La Mancha

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra


Door het lezen van te veel ridderromans is Don Quichot zijn verstand kwijtgeraakt. Denkend dat hij zelf een dolende ridder is, verlaat hij z…

Mr. Britling Sees It Through

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H. G. Wells


"Mr. Britling Sees It Through" is H. G. Wells' attempt to make sense of World War I. It begins with a lighthearted account of an …

Mrs. Armytage, or Female Domination

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Catherine Grace Frances Gore


Mrs Armytage is a widowed landowner, spirited, independent and very much used to having her own way and exercising total dominance over her …

Romans et contes

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Théophile Gautier


Ce recueil rassemble dix histoires fascinantes de la plume de Théophile Gautier (1811-1872), touchant le surnaturel, les hallucinatio…

Ressurreição

Read by Rachel Moraes


Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis


Primeiro romance de Machado de Assis, publicado em 1872, quando o escritor tinha 33 anos. Segundo o autor, ao escrever este primeiro romance…

Marianela

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Benito Pérez Galdós


Marianela, publicada en 1878, forma parte de lo que se ha llamado "novelas tesis" del autor, de forma que algunos de sus personaje…

Iracema, the Honey-Lips: a Legend of Brazil

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Jose de Alencar and José De Alencar


Iracema (translated as Iracema, the Honey Lips: a legend of Brazil) is considered one of the most important books of Brazilian romanticism, …

Lord Beaupre

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


What is a young man to do, when because of his pleasant disposition, and (of course) his considerable wealth, he finds himself besieged by b…

A Common Story

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Ivan Goncharov


Alexander Fedoritch Adouev is the naïve, pampered son of Anna Pavlovna, a provincial landowner. He decides to go off to Saint Petersbur…

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