Drama

The Witness for the Defence

by A. E. W. Mason Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4.6
Part romance, part mystery, part courtroom and quasi-courtroom drama. Young love reignites itself after a hiatus of some years. Or does it? …

Notes From The Underground

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Read by Bob Neufeld 4.8
Notes from Underground is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. It presen…

Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
This is book 3 of 5.An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the wa…

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The Woman in White is a groundbreaking mystery novel by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1860. This epistolary tale unfolds through the pe…

The Awakening

by Kate Chopin Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.4
Kate Chopin's 1899 novella The Awakening is about the personal, sexual, and artistic awakening of a young wife and mother, Edna Pontellier. …

The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Read by Martin Geeson 4.7
The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss sanatorium suffering from severe epilepsy, returns to Ru…

Summer

by Edith Wharton Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.4
Wharton's 1917 novella Summer, like her more famous work Ethan Frome, is set in a very small rural New England town. Charity Royall longs t…

The Lamplighter

by Maria Susanna Cummins Read by Bridget Gaige 4.8
Gertrude began life as an abused child in the care of Nan Grant, a cold and cruel woman. The only human character who was kind to her was th…

The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel

by Baroness Emma Orczy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The last of the famous "Scarlet Pimpernel" books, the "Triumph" tells the story of the final confrontation between the S…

Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
This is book 5 of 5. An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the w…

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

by Victor Hugo Read by Mark Nelson 4.7
One of the great literary tragedies of all time, The Hunchback of Notre Dame features some of the most well-known characters in all of ficti…

Hand and Ring

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.4
Widow Clemmens is struck down in her parlor while the town's legal professionals chat outside the courthouse down the street. An investigati…

Jill the Reckless

by P. G. Wodehouse Read by Don W. Jenkins 4.7
Jill had money, Jill was engaged to be married to Sir Derek Underhill. Suddenly Jill becomes penniless, and she is no longer engaged. With a…

Ethan Frome

by Edith Wharton Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.5
Edith Wharton's 1911 novel Ethan Frome tells the story of a tragic love triangle. Set in the highly symbolic wintry landscape of Starkfield,…

The Hidden Hand

by E.D.E.N. Southworth Read by Bridget Gaige 4.8
The Hidden Hand by E.D.E.N. Southworth invites listeners into a world where secrets shape destinies. Set against a backdrop of societal expe…

No Thoroughfare

by Charles Dickens Read by Alan Chant 4.7
Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, with disastrous consequences in adulthood. Two associates, wishing to right th…

The Return of the Soldier

by Rebecca West Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.5
In 1916 on an isolated country estate just outside London, Captain Chris Baldry, a shell-shocked captain suffering from amnesia, makes a bit…

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Louisa May Alcott's beloved 1868 novel is about the four March girls - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy - who are growing up in Massachusetts during t…

Hide and Seek

by Wilkie Collins Read by Anna Simon 4.6
The artist Valentine Blyth has a very generous heart. He lovingly cares for his invalid wife, rescues a deaf orphan girl from maltreatment i…

Master and Man

by Leo Tolstoy Read by Brooks Jensen 4.8
A land owner, Vasili Andreevich, takes along one of his peasants, Nikita, for a short journey to another town. He wishes to get to the town …

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