Literary Fiction
Babbitt
Read by John W. Michaels
Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis’ George F. Babbitt is a complicated and conflicted character. When you think you have his next move figured out he surprises …
Agnes Grey (Version 3)
Read by Libby Gohn
Anne Brontë
Anne Bronte's semi-autobiographic novel about Agnes Grey, a young woman who becomes a governess to support her family, but finds her new car…
The Prophet
Read by Mark F. Smith
Kahlil Gibran
The prophet Al Mustafa, before leaving the city where he has been living twelve years, stops to address the people. They call out for his wo…
Sanctuary (version 2)
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton's early novella focuses on Kate Orme, who begins the story happily in love with her fiance, only to discover that he hides a t…
Benito Cereno
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Herman Melville
On an island off the coast of Chile, Captain Amaso Delano, sailing an American sealer, sees the San Dominick, a Spanish slave ship, in obvio…
Bleak House (version 4)
Read by Peter John Keeble
Charles Dickens
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…
Anthem (Version 4)
Read by Greg Giordano
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand is best known for her classics Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. One of her earlier works, Anthem, is a dystopian vision of a wo…
Under Western Eyes
Read by Expatriate
Joseph Conrad
Under Western Eyes (1911) is a novel by Joseph Conrad. The novel takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Geneva, Switzerland, and is vie…
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (version 2)
Read by Peter John Keeble
Charles Dickens
Martin Chuzzlewit was Dickens 6th novel, serially published in 1843 - 44. Irrespective of the fact that Dickens considered - "Chuzzlewi…
The Wolf-Leader
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
Part local legend of a dark and dangerous Wolf-Leader, part childhood memories of his home near Villers-Cotterets, in Aisne, Dumas here penn…
The Golden Bowl
Read by Lee Ann Howlett
Henry James
The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some cri…
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Original 1848 Edition)
Read by Expatriate
Anne Brontë
When Helen Graham moves into old Wildfell Hall with her little son Arthur, the rustic neighborhood comes alive with gossip and speculation, …
The Sun Also Rises
Read by KevinS
Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises (1926) was Hemingway's first novel to be published, though there is his novella The Torrents of Spring which was publishe…
Katie Robertson
Read by John Biebel
Margaret Winslow
Katie Robertson is a tale of a girl who takes on factory work as a means of assisting her widowed mother. The novel introduces the reader to…
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 11
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Seba Smith
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith…
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 20
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Lawrence Labree and Seba Smith
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith…
Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker. Vol. III
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Berthold Auerbach
Surely you've heard it said that you don't just marry the individual, you marry their whole family. Though perhaps at first kindhearted Lenz…
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 05
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Seba Smith
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith…
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 09
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Lawrence Labree and Seba Smith
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith…
Selected Poems
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Pauline B. Barrington
Pauline B. Barrington was an American poet and playwright. These poems were published between 1916 and 1918 and take for their inspiration t…