Literary Criticism

The Master of Ballantrae

by Robert Louis Stevenson Read by Thomas A. Copeland 4.3
Heir to a noble Scottish house in the mid 18th century, the Master is a charming, clever, and resourceful villain whose daring but ill-advis…

The Ambassadors

by Henry James Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4
Henry James considered The Ambassadors his best, or perhaps his best-wrought, novel. It plays on the great Jamesian theme of the American ab…

The Golden Bowl

by Henry James Read by Lee Ann Howlett 3.9
The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some cri…

The Titan

by Theodore Dreiser Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.5
Cowperwood moves to Chicago with his new wife Aileen. He decides to take over the street-railway system. He bankrupts several opponents with…

The Roll-Call

by Arnold Bennett Read by Simon Evers 4.4
"The Roll-Call" is the sequel to the Clayhanger trilogy. This book concerns the young life of Clayhanger's stepson, George. George…

Daisy Miller

by Henry James Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Daisy Miller is an 1878 novella by Henry James first appearing in Cornhill Magazine in June–July 1879, and in book form the following year. …

Robert Falconer

by George MacDonald Read by Kenneth R. Morefield 4.5
Robert Falconer follows the journey of a young man whose life is shaped by the love of music and the struggles of faith. Set against the bac…

Winesburg, Ohio

by Sherwood Anderson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Published in 1919, and listed on the Modern Library roster of the 20th century's 100 greatest novels in English, Winesburg, Ohio presents a …

The House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
The House of the Seven Gables is a gloomy New England mansion, haunted from its foundation by fraudulent dealings, accusations of witchcraft…

The Flood

by Émile Zola Read by R. S. Steinberg 4.7
A well-to-do French farm family is destroyed by a flood. The story, thrilling to the very end, is told from the point of view of the family…

Liza of Lambeth

by W. Somerset Maugham Read by Hatton43 4.5
Liza of Lambeth focuses on the challenges of life facing Liza, an 18 year old factory girl who lives in the poverty of the slums of 1890s Lo…

Uncle's Dream

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Read by Greg Giordano 4.6
Uncle’s Dream by Fyodor Dostoyevsky was written following his five year exile to Siberia where he was sent to serve in a hard labor camp. F…

Death in Venice

by Thomas Mann Read by Lee Smalley 4.3
Thomas Mann, author of Death in Venice (German: Der Tod in Venedig) was a winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. The main character in th…

English Literature

by William J. Long Read by Tony Oliva 4.6
This book, which presents the whole splendid history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the close of the Victorian Era, has thr…

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert Read by Nadine Eckert-Boulet 4.7
Charles Bovary, médecin de campagne, veuf d'une mégère, fait lors d'une tournée la rencontre du père Roua…

Crimen y castigo

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Read by Epachuko 4.7
Obra cumbre de la literatura rusa y universal. Probablemente la más conocida de Dostoyesky. Está dividida en 6 partes y un ep&…

Confessions

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Read by Martin Geeson 4.6
“Thus I have acted; these were my thoughts; such was I.”Rousseau’s lengthy and sometimes anguished dossier on the Self is one of the most re…

Birds of Prey

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Read by KirksVoice 4.4
The first part of the book builds the characters of four con men who become interconnected and attempt their schemes on each other. This boo…

Main Street

by Sinclair Lewis Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Carol Milford is a liberal, free-spirited young woman, reared in the metropolis of Minneapolis. She marries Will Kennicott, a doctor, who is…

At the Foot of the Rainbow

by Gene Stratton-Porter Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
This story is about three people, two men and a woman. Jimmy, selfish and deceitful, who has shamelessly lied to, cheated, and used his dear…

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