Tragedy

Romeo and Juliet

Read by Becky Miller


William Shakespeare


Romeo and Juliet is perhaps the most famous of Shakespeare’s plays and is thought to be the most famous love story in Western history. It co…

Hamlet

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


William Shakespeare


Hamlet is commonly regarded as one of the greatest plays ever written. Drawing on Danish chronicles and the Elizabethan vogue for revenge tr…

Wuthering Heights (Version 2)

Read by Ruth Golding


Emily Brontë


Emily Brontë's only novel, published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet…

Anna Karenina, Book 1

Read by Kirsten Ferreri


Leo Tolstoy


Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfol…

The Iliad

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Homer


The Iliad, together with the Odyssey, is one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer. The poem is commonly dated t…

The Tragedy of Macbeth

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


William Shakespeare


Murder and madness, witches and war: Librivox presents a recording of Macbeth, perhaps Shakespeare's best known tragedy. Macbeth, a genera…

The Phantom of the Opera

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Gaston Leroux


An old theatre under new management; a diva who thinks she can sing; a young ingenue who really can; a masked man who wreaks havoc if he doe…

Othello

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


William Shakespeare


Othello is the story of a cross-cultural romance between the title character, a noble moor who is a general in the Venetian army, and Desdem…

Anna Karenina, Book 2

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Leo Tolstoy


In Part 2, Kitty’s health deteriorates from regret and heartbreak, while Levin retreats to his country estate. Anna and Vronsky continue to …

Julius Caesar

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


William Shakespeare


William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, based on true events, concerns the conspiracy against Julius Caesar, his assassination i…

Der Selbstmordverein

Read by Stephanie König


Franziska Gräfin Zu Reventlow


Ein gar nicht düsteres Trauerspiel, in dem nicht nur ein verkrachter Baron, eine schöne Witwe, ein junger Gymnasiast und seine Fre…

Wuthering Heights (version 3 dramatic reading)

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Emily Brontë


The story centers on the all-encompassing, passionate, but ultimately doomed love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, and how this un…

Madame Bovary

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Gustave Flaubert


Published in book form in April 1857, the novel focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her mea…

Onkel Toms Hütte

Read by Ramona Deininger-Schnabel


Harriet Beecher Stowe


Der Roman schildert das Schicksal einer Reihe afroamerikanischer Sklaven und ihrer jeweiligen Besitzer in den vierziger Jahren des 19. Jahrh…

Faust I

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend; a highly successful scholar, but also dissatisfied with his life, and so makes a deal w…

Anna Karenina, Book 3

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Leo Tolstoy


Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfol…

Le Cid

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Pierre Corneille


Des deux prétendants de Chimène, son favori semble être agréé par son père. Ce digne fils d'un viei…

King Lear

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


William Shakespeare


King Lear is widely held as the greatest of Shakespeare's tragedies; to some, it is the greatest play ever written. King Lear abdicates the …

Twelfth Night

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


William Shakespeare


Hidden and mistaken identities, requited and unrequited loves, pranks and jokes abound in this romantic comedy. (Summary by Karen Savage)Cas…

The Parasite

Read by Carl Vonnoh, III


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Being a physiologist, Austin Gilroy is unconvinced that the occult is real. His friend Professor Wilson, however, is not only convinced that…

1 2 3 4 5 6 >