Literature
Women in Love
Read by Ruth Golding
D. H. Lawrence
Women in Love is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence published in 1920. It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow (1915), and fol…
Oedipus Rex (Storr Translation)
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Sophocles
Oedipus the King (often known by the Latin title Oedipus Rex) is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed c. 429 BC. It was…
Tom Sawyer Abroad by Huck Finn
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of Jules Verne-esque a…
The Gods of Mars (version 2)
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Edgar Rice Burroughs
In this second volume of the Barsoom series, John Carter returns to Mars to learn that his heroic effort to salvage the atmosphere plant sav…
The Old Curiosity Shop
Read by Euthymius
Charles Dickens
The Old Curiosity Shop tells the story of Little Nell, a beautiful and virtuous young girl who lives with her grandfather in his shop of cur…
Bible (KJV) NT 04: John
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King James Version
The Gospel According to John, commonly referred to as the Gospel of John or simply John, is an account of the public ministry of Jesus. It b…
The Treasury of David, Vol. 1 (Abridged)
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Charles H. Spurgeon
Charles Spurgeon was a British Particular Baptist preacher who remains highly influential among Christians of different denominations, among…
The Book of Lieh-Tzu
Read by Chris Masterson
Liezi
Although Lieh Tzu's work has evidently passed through the hands of many editors and gathered numerous accretions, there remains a considerab…
Silas Marner (version 2)
Read by Tadhg Hynes
George Eliot
Reputed as Eliot’s favourite novel Silas Marner is set in the early years of the 19th century. Marner, a weaver, is a member of a small cong…
What Maisie Knew
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Henry James
When Beale and Ida Farange are divorced, the court decrees that their only child, the very young Maisie, will shuttle back and forth between…
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 02
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H. G. Wells
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…
A Room with a View
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
E. M. Forster
When Lucy Honeychurch travels to Italy with her cousin, she meets George Emerson, a bohemian and an atheist who falls in love with her. Upon…
Phaedrus
Read by Martin Geeson
Plato
“For there is no light of justice or temperance, or any of the higher ideas which are precious to souls, in the earthly copies of them: they…
The Room in the Dragon Volant
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
J. Sheridan LeFanu's Gothic mystery novel is narrated by Richard Beckett, a young Englishman abroad in Napoleonic-era France. He falls insta…
Ten Years Later
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Alexandre Dumas
After The Three Muskateers and Twenty Years After the adventurous story of Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan continues!The Vicomte of Br…
The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Pádraic Colum
Also known as "The Children's Homer," this is Irish writer Padraic Colum's retelling of the events of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey fo…
Barnaby Rudge (version 2)
Read by Mil Nicholson
Charles Dickens
One of the two Historical novels Charles Dickens wrote, Barnaby Rudge is set around the ‘Gordon’ riots in London in 1780. The story begins i…
The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby
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Charles Dickens
The action takes place in London, with excursions to Devon, Yorkshire, and Portsmouth, as we follow the adventures of the eponymous hero. Ni…
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Read by Nick Duncan
William Blake
The work was composed between 1790 and 1793, in the period of radical foment and political conflict immediately after the French Revolution.…
Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji)
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Murasaki Shikibu
The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari) is a classic work of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the …