Literary Fiction

Mr. Britling Sees It Through

Read by Peter Eastman


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 …

Marianela

Read by Maritza Mateo


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…

Death in Venice

Read by Lee Smalley


Thomas Mann


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…

Buddenbrooks

Read by Bruce Pirie


Thomas Mann


When Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (1929), the citation made special mention of his first novel, “Buddenbrooks,” pub…

Cuentos del Oeste

Read by Victor Villarraza


Bret Harte


Bret Harte ha sido llamado con razón «el Dickens de los pioneros»: ilustrando con humor y sentimiento el coraje y la virt…

Iracema, the Honey-Lips: a Legend of Brazil

Read by Leni


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, …

A Common Story

Read by Expatriate


Ivan Goncharov


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

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…

Dombey and Son (version 3)

Read by Hamlet


Charles Dickens


To Paul Dombey, the business is everything, and he must have a son who will learn the business and eventually inherit it. Will his newborn, …

El mundo perdido

Read by Victor Villarraza


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Un relato fantástico en el que el humor, la aventura y la acción se dan la mano. Esta obra, que su autor sitúa en Sudam…

La Comédie Humaine: 09 - Scènes de la vie parisienne tome 1 (7-11-43) - Histoir…

Read by Bernard


Honoré de Balzac


Ce n'était pas une petite tâche que de peindre les deux ou trois mille figures saillantes d'une époque, car telle est, e…

Captain Antifer

Read by Joseph DeNoia


Jules Verne


“No good deed goes Unpunished”, as the saying goes. A wealthy Egyptian leaves millions of buried treasure on an island and sends the locatio…

An Anonymous Story

Read by Expatriate


Anton Chekhov


In "An Anonymous Story," Chekhov continues to explore his favorite themes of superfluous men, ironic rakes, exploited women, and t…

The Rider on the White Horse

Read by Availle


Theodor Storm


Hauke Haien, a young man of 24 years, has just beome dikemaster in Northern Frisia. Against the resistance of many of the townfolk, he has a…

Das Spinnennetz

Read by Availle


Joseph Roth


Theodor Lohse beschließt den 1. Weltkrieg als unbedeutender Leutnant und findet Arbeit als Hauslehrer beim reichen Juden Efrussi. Dort…

Tales From Dickens

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Hallie Erminie Rives


The Old Curiosity Shop; Hard Times; A Tale of Two Cities; Oliver Twist; The Pickwick Papers. Have you read any or all of these famous Dicken…

Childhood (version 2)

Read by Expatriate


Leo Tolstoy


Childhood is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian l…

Life and Death of Harriett Frean

Read by Expatriate


May Sinclair


Harriett Frean is a well-to-do, unmarried woman living a life of meaningless dependency, boredom, and unproductivity as she patiently cares …

The Death of Society: A Novel of Tomorrow

Read by Expatriate


Florence Roma Muir Wilson


A weary survivor of the Great War, Major Rane Smith wanders in a great ennui amidst the mystical beauties of the fjords of Norway after the …

Precious Bane

Read by NoelBadrian


Mary Webb


Published in 1924, Precious Bane is a novel by Mary Webb (1881 - 1927) which touches on ambition, prejudice and hatred but also on the power…

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