Literary Fiction

The Celestial Omnibus, and Other Stories

Read by Kirsten Wever


E. M. Forster


With twenty Nobel Prize nominations to his credit, E. M. Forster may reasonably be considered one of the best writers of the 20th century – …

The Canterbury Tales (Middle English)

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Geoffrey Chaucer


Chaucer's famous and important work is predicated upon the premise that a group of Christian folks from various occupations, familiar in the…

An Outcast of the Islands (Version 2)

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


This, Conrad's second, novel serves as an illuminating prequel of his first, 'Almayer's Folly', teasing out the origins of the factional ten…

Tales of Hearsay

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


In the time of Napoleon, a thoughtful and romantic young Russian officer finds himself asked to do something unthinkable. In 1868, a Polish …

The Huguenot: A Tale of the French Protestants

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George Payne Rainsford James


The time of French king Louis XIV was a time of religious conflict. His father, Louis XIII had tried to suppress the teachings and followers…

Typhoon and Other Stories

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


An impossibly imperturbable old sea captain, with two hundred Chinese labourers aboard his steamship, faces a terrifying typhoon for the fir…

To the Lighthouse (Version 3)

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Virginia Woolf


In three parts, this modern classic explores the life of an English family, the Ramsays, at their Scottish summer house both before and afte…

The Duchess of Langeais

Read by Bruce Pirie


Honoré de Balzac


“The Duchess of Langeais” (1834) is part of Balzac’s great life’s work, the sprawling novel series called “The Human Comedy.” This novel is …

Doña Berta

Read by Lu


Leopoldo Garcia Alas


Una anciana solterona, última descendiente de los Rondaliego, cuya existencia transcurre íntegramente en un rincón de A…

שכול וכשלון Breakdown and Bereavement

Read by Omri Lernau


יוסף חיים ברנר Yosef Haim Brenner


Breakdown and Bereavement, first published in 1920, is the story of a young Jewish immigrant in Palestine in the early 20th century. Like ma…

Groote Verwachtingen

Read by Marcel Coenders


Charles Dickens


De arme wees Pip komt in goede doen, wordt een vreselijke snob, maar na financiële tegenslagen komt hij toch weer op het rechte pad. Sa…

A Man Could Stand Up

Read by Peter Dann


Ford Madox Ford


'A Man Could Stand Up' is the third, and culminating, part of Ford Madox Ford's 'Parade's End' tetralogy of novels, which begins with 'Some …

Lore of Proserpine

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Maurice Henry Hewlett


If a thing is not sensibly true it may be morally so. If it is not phenomenally true it may be so substantially. And it is possible that one…

The Black Candle

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson


Emily Murphy


Emily Murphy wrote about the Vancouver, BC Downtown Eastside and its various residents. This is one of her quotes from the book - "It …

Within The Tides

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


A self-important English philosopher and his haughty, beautiful daughter sail to the South Pacific in hope of locating the daughter's wrongl…

The House on the Marsh: A Romance

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Florence Warden


Violet Christie is just 18 years old as she heads towards her first position as a governess. She tries to be enthusiastic about the Norfolk …

A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas (version 12)

Read by Geoffrey Venin


Charles Dickens


Marley was dead, to begin with...until his ghost visits his miserly business partner, Ebenezer Scrooge, with a dire warning. Will Scrooge b…

Bliss, and Other Stories

Read by Peter Dann


Katherine Mansfield


"(N)ot to say that they are cheerful stories; they are anything but that; they have not, however, that element of trivial discomfort so…

Thyrza

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George Gissing


Thyrza is a working class woman. Three men are in love with her. Even though she is engaged to a man of her class, who is very kind, she fal…

Harmer John; An Unworldly Story

Read by David Wales


Hugh Walpole


Hjalmar Johanson (novel, 1926) is a boyish unworldly Swedish body builder come to Walpole’s fictional cathedral town of Polchester. His name…

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