Literary Fiction
Cousin Pons
Read by Bruce Pirie
Honoré de Balzac
Cousin Pons is one of the final works in Balzac's long novel series titled The Human Comedy. It was published in 1847, along with Cousin Bet…
El Equipaje del Rey José
Read by KendalRigans
Benito Pérez Galdós
El equipaje del rey José (1875) es la primera novela de la segunda serie de los Episodios nacionales de Benito Pérez Gald&oacu…
Jacob's Room (version 2)
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Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf’s third novel lacks a conventional narrative style and some say even a plot. It follows Jacob from his childhood, through his…
The Awkward Age
Read by Anna Simon
Henry James
Nanda Brookenham is coming of age, and thus 'coming out' in London society - which leads to complications in her family's social set in Lond…
Ressurreição
Read by Rachel Moraes
Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis
Primeiro romance de Machado de Assis, publicado em 1872, quando o escritor tinha 33 anos. Segundo o autor, ao escrever este primeiro romance…
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…
The Colonel's Dream
Read by James K. White
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
In this novel, Chesnutt described the hopelessness of Reconstruction in a post-Civil War South that was bent on reestablishing the former st…
The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid
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Thomas Hardy
A milkmaid, Margery, encounters a mysterious foreigner and perhaps prevents him from committing suicide. In gratitude, the man offers her an…
Mrs. Armytage, or Female Domination
Read by Helen Taylor
Catherine Grace Frances Gore
Mrs Armytage is a widowed landowner, spirited, independent and very much used to having her own way and exercising total dominance over her …
Don Quichot van La Mancha
Read by Bart de Leeuw
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Door het lezen van te veel ridderromans is Don Quichot zijn verstand kwijtgeraakt. Denkend dat hij zelf een dolende ridder is, verlaat hij z…
The Tysons
Read by Expatriate
May Sinclair
Another frank May Sinclair exploration of fin de siècle English love and sex, marriage and adultery, "The Tysons" is the st…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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, …
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…
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…
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…