Drama

Ward No. 6

by Anton Chekhov Read by Expatriate 4.6
The line between sanity and insanity is blurred in this classic novella by Anton Chekhov. The disillusioned idealist Dr. Rabin is in charge…

Rachel Ray

by Anthony Trollope Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The love that develops between Luke Rowan and Rachel Ray is not universally welcomed. Mrs. Tappitt- a rich, influential, and bad woman - wis…

The Woman Who Did

by Grant Allen Read by Ruth Golding 4.5
Most times, especially in the time when this book was written (1895), it is just as nature and society would wish: a man and woman "fal…

Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School

by Jessie Graham Flower and Josephine Chase Read by Christine Blachford 4.8
In the second installment of Grace Harlowe's adventures, the spirited young heroine navigates the complexities of friendship and loyalty dur…

The Greater Inclination

by Edith Wharton Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.4
This is Edith Wharton's earliest published collection of short stories (1899). Like much of her later work, they touch on themes of marriag…

The Dawn of a To-morrow

by Frances Hodgson Burnett Read by Linda Andrus 4.4
A wealthy London business man takes a room in a poor part of the city.He is depressed and has decided to take his life by going the next day…

Agnes Grey

by Anne Brontë Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Agnes Grey is the daughter of a minister, whose family comes to financial ruin. Desperate to earn money to care for herself, she takes one o…

Aurora Floyd

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Aurora Floyd, the daughter of a rich banker and an actress, could not have had a better start: back from a finishing school in Paris, she is…

The Consolation of Philosophy

by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The Consolation of Philosophy was written about 524 A.D. and has been called one of the most popular and influential books ever written. The…

The Financier

by Theodore Dreiser Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.7
In Philadelphia, Frank Cowperwood, whose father is a banker, makes his first money by buying cheap soaps on the market and selling it back w…

The Aspern Papers

by Henry James Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4.5
One of James’s favorite short novels, the Aspern Papers tells of the efforts of the nameless narrator to procure the papers of a famous, bu…

Washington Square

by Henry James Read by Dawn 4.2
Washington Square is a short novel by Henry James. Originally published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Ma…

The Diary of a Superfluous Man

by Ivan Turgenev Read by Martin Geeson 4.7
Turgenev's shy hero, Tchulkaturin, is a representative example of a Russian archetype - the "superfluous man", a sort of Hamlet no…

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens Read by Paul Adams 4.8
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 2…

The Whistler

4.6
Experience the intriguing world of The Whistler, a classic Old Time Radio series that captivates listeners with its suspenseful storytelling…

The Birth of Tragedy

by Friedrich Nietzsche Read by John Van Stan 4.7
This is one of Nietzsche's early academic writings - a scholarly theory about Ancient Greek theatre, specifically tragedies. In a nutshell, …

The Duke's Children

by Anthony Trollope Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
In the last of the six Palliser novels, the sudden death of his wife, Lady Glencora, leaves Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium, findin…

A Laodicean

by Thomas Hardy Read by Simon Evers 4.5
The Laodicean (someone whose religious beliefs are “lukewarm”) of the title is Paula Power who bought the ancient castle De Stancy which she…

One Commonplace Day

by Pansy Read by TriciaG 4.4
A temperance lecturer misses his train and ends up attending a town picnic. It was a common enough picnic on a commonplace day. But the disc…

The Picture Of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde Read by Bob Neufeld 4.7
The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 Ju…

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