Literary Fiction
Tales of Unrest
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
A brave Malay chieftain suffers from a surprising vulnerability. After giving birth to a series of unfortunate children, a farmer's wife is …
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…
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 Crocodile
Read by Phillip Cryan
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoevesky's "The Crocodile," first published in 1865 in the magazine "Epoch," is the story of Ivan Matveitch, a…
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…
Dreams
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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…
The Children Of The Abbey
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Regina Maria Roche
Published in 1796, this novel tells the trials and tribulations of Amanda and Oscar FitzAlan, brother and sister who have to navigate the wo…
The Creators
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May Sinclair
Jane Holland is a genius, the greatest of a group of extraordinary literary friends. She has an intense artistic and intellectual kinship wi…
Flower of the Dusk
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Myrtle Reed
Published in 1908, this is the story of two small families and the agreeable couple who help them. The heartfelt Norths, though clouded by d…
Cut by the County
Read by Adrienne Prevost
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Darnel Park is situated in a county that thrives on gossip and secrets, and the Darnel family, as it turns out, has many of them. An attempt…
Lover or Friend
Read by Edmund Bloxam
Rosa Nouchette Carey
An epic tale of romantic and societal confrontation, as two families become far more intimately entangled than they could have previously im…
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
Read by Peter Eastman
George Gissing
This novel consists of selections from the diary of an author, starting soon after his retirement and continuing until just before his death…
The Wooden Horse
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
Walpole’s first novel (1909), The Wooden Horse is the story of the Trojans, a family which accepted tranquilly the belief that they were the…
No More Parades
Read by Peter Dann
Ford Madox Ford
When No More Parades was first published in 1925, a critic in The Observer wrote of the first 100 pages that they "easily surpass in tr…
The Bridge Builders
Read by Tony Addison
Rudyard Kipling
A tale of the revenge of the earth, in this case, specifically, Mother Gunga, Goddess of the River Ganga, against the men who confine her po…
The Rescue
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
"The Rescue" is the third of Conrad's novels to feature Captain Tom Lingard, an independent buccaneer operating in the Malayan arc…
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern
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Various
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
The Nigger of the Narcissus
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
Today, we're likely to react to the title of this novella, on whose 'sincerity of expression' Conrad was willing to stake his artisitic repu…
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…
The Merry-Go-Round
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W. Somerset Maugham
Basil Kent marries Jenny Bush, because he believes that is the honourable thing to do after getting her pregnant, but he realizes that he is…