Literary Criticism

Dubliners

by James Joyce Read by Tadhg 4.7
Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle cl…

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…

The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne

by William John Locke Read by Simon Evers 4.7
Marcus Ordeyne is a middle aged bachelor schoolmaster who has inherited both money and a title and thus is able to lead a life of leisure. O…

Bleak House

by Charles Dickens Read by Peter John Keeble 4.9
Bleak house is one of Dickens finest achievements. It was written for serialisation in 1853 when Dickens was at the peak of his career. Mont…

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. …

Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens Read by Mil Nicholson 4.9
"Please sir, I want some more," the famous line spoken by Oliver Twist at age nine, becomes the tipping point of a huge change in …

The Man in the Iron Mask

by Alexandre Dumas Read by Mark F. Smith 4.6
In this, the last of the Three Musketeers novels, Dumas builds on the true story of a mysterious prisoner held incognito in the French penal…

The Jungle

by Upton Sinclair Read by Tom Weiss 4.6
It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better…

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad Read by Bob Neufeld 4.6
Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. Before its 1903 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood…

Fathers and Sons

by Ivan Turgenev Read by Roger Melin 4.6
The fathers and children of the novel refers to the growing divide between the two generations of Russians, and the character Yevgeny Bazaro…

Agnes Grey

by Anne Brontë Read by Libby Gohn 4.6
Agnes Grey is a poignant exploration of the struggles faced by a young governess in 19th-century England. Anne Brontë draws from her ow…

Daniel Deronda

by George Eliot Read by Becky Miller 4.6
In this enduring Victorian classic written in 1876, two stories weave in and out of each other: The first is about Gwendolen, one of Eliot's…

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

by Robert Tressell Read by Tadhg 4.8
Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell's cast of hypocritical Christians, ex…

Simon the Jester

by William John Locke Read by Simon Evers 4.7
Simon de Gex, a wealthy and successful MP, is diagnosed with a terminal illness and decides to use his last few months using his wealth and …

The Doctor's Wife

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Read by Kirsten Wever 4.1
This is one of the Victorian “Sensationist” Mary Elizabeth Braddon's many novels (best known among them: “Lady Audley’s Secret”). It is extr…

The House of the Dead

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Read by Expatriate 4.6
The House of the Dead is a novel published in 1861 by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky, which portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian p…

Mrs. Dalloway

by Virginia Woolf Read by Hannah Dormor 4.7
Clarissa Dalloway is having a party. Join her and a web of connections in exploring London, their memories and their innermost thoughts and …

The Warden

by Anthony Trollope Read by Nick Whitley 4.7
The Warden is the first novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire", making fun of the Church of E…

The Touchstone

by Edith Wharton Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.3
Stephen Glennard's career is falling apart and he desperately needs money so that he may marry his beautiful fiancee. He happens upon an adv…

The Portrait of a Lady

by Henry James Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.5
The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880–81 an…

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