Literary Fiction

The Black Monk

Read by Daniel Davison


Anton Chekhov


Aspiring academic Andrei Kovrin, while summering in the countryside per the advice of a physician, is haunted by the apparition of a black m…

Lord Jim (version 2)

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


While it's not often described as such, "Lord Jim" can be viewed as a kind of love story whose real theme is the close bond which …

The House of Mystery

Read by Jim Locke


Richard Marsh


The House of Mystery is based upon the complicated plot involving two women who look exactly alike, one rich and one poor, and so mistaken i…

Cradock Nowell Vol. 3

Read by Lynne T


Richard Doddridge Blackmore


Cradock Nowell: a Tale of the New Forest is a three-volume novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1866. Set in the New Forest and in London, …

The Combined Maze

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May Sinclair


Ranny Ransome is an idealistic young man, devoted to exuberant gymnastic exercises and to fighting “flabbiness” in his own life, body and so…

So Big

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Edna Ferber


The story of Selina DeJong and her son Dirk, whom she affectionately calls So Big. After the death of her husband, Selina raises So Big on h…

The Dreamer of Dreams

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Marie Of Romania Alexandra Victoria


Eric, artist for the king, has created a marvelous painting of a royal wedding. It is finished except for the face of the queen, which appea…

Collaboration

Read by David Wales


Henry James


It is Paris sometime after the Franco-Prussian War (1870--Germany won--the French Second Republic collapsed--France embittered). A French po…

Een Nagelaten Bekentenis

Read by Anna Simon


Marcellus Emants


"Mijn vrouw is dood en al begraven."Hiermee opent Willem Termeer zijn bekentenis. Het zou zonde zijn om hier meer details te verme…

Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life, Volume 1

Read by Anne Erickson


Margaret O. Oliphant


Catherine Vernon has a firm hand on her family and on the family business. Her plans for her young protege Edward, whom she loves like a son…

The Tree of Heaven

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May Sinclair


One of the most heart-breaking of all World War I novels, this family epic was written in the midst of the War itself, and shows the intense…

The Wind

Read by Availle


Dorothy Scarborough


After her mother's death, Letty is forced to move in with her only relative, cousin Bev. From the start, the naive 18-year-old finds it diff…

The Last Ditch

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Violet Hunt


An amusing but deeply poignant story, “The Last Ditch” describes the wartime experiences of a British aristocratic family who gradually real…

La Grande Bretèche

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Honoré de Balzac


La Grande Bretèche is an addendum to Balzac's Another Study of Woman, and is the final of a set of stories told around a dinner table…

Within a Budding Grove

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Marcel Proust


"In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower" (bowdlerized by Scottish translator Scott Moncrieff as "Within a Budding Grove"…

Short Plays from Dickens

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Horace Baker Browne


Here is a collection of 20 short plays drawn from various books by Charles Dickens such as Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Bleak House…

The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


In the 1870s, supporters of the pretender to the throne of Spain take advantage of a young man's attraction to the sea to persuade him to ru…

Seefahrt ist not!

Read by Claus Misfeldt


Gorch Fock


Gorch Fock (Geburtsname Johann Kinau) gibt in seinem Roman Einblicke in Leben und Arbeit der Menschen seines Geburtsortes, der Elbinsel Fink…

Dreams

Read by NoelBadrian


Olive Schreiner


Olive Schreiner was a South African writer and intellectual born in 1855 to missionary parents in the Eastern Cape. She was one of the earli…

Weird Tales, Volume 2

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


E. T. A. Hoffmann


Paradoxically, it is variety that unites the tales you are about to read. They take place in widely separated countries and historical perio…

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