Literature
Phaedrus
Read by Martin Geeson
Plato
“For there is no light of justice or temperance, or any of the higher ideas which are precious to souls, in the earthly copies of them: they…
The Room in the Dragon Volant
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
J. Sheridan LeFanu's Gothic mystery novel is narrated by Richard Beckett, a young Englishman abroad in Napoleonic-era France. He falls insta…
Ten Years Later
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Alexandre Dumas
After The Three Muskateers and Twenty Years After the adventurous story of Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan continues!The Vicomte of Br…
The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Pádraic Colum
Also known as "The Children's Homer," this is Irish writer Padraic Colum's retelling of the events of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey fo…
Barnaby Rudge (version 2)
Read by Mil Nicholson
Charles Dickens
One of the two Historical novels Charles Dickens wrote, Barnaby Rudge is set around the ‘Gordon’ riots in London in 1780. The story begins i…
The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby
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Charles Dickens
The action takes place in London, with excursions to Devon, Yorkshire, and Portsmouth, as we follow the adventures of the eponymous hero. Ni…
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Read by Nick Duncan
William Blake
The work was composed between 1790 and 1793, in the period of radical foment and political conflict immediately after the French Revolution.…
Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji)
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Murasaki Shikibu
The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari) is a classic work of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the …
The Black Tulip
Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Alexandre Dumas
The Black Tulip, written by Alexandre Dumas père and published in 1850, is a historical novel placed in the time of Tulipmania in the…
Confessions, volumes 1 and 2
Read by Martin Geeson
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Thus I have acted; these were my thoughts; such was I.”Rousseau’s lengthy and sometimes anguished dossier on the Self is one of the most re…
The Sorrows of Young Werther
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Sorrows of Young Werther (German, Die Leiden des jungen Werther, originally published as Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) is an epistolar…
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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Ann Radcliffe
Considered a change agent in early Gothic romance; oft-referenced in later literary works or paid homage to by such authors as Jane Austen (…
The Street of Seven Stars
Read by MaryAnn
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Published in 1914, this novel tells the story of Harmony Wells, an innocent and beautiful American in Austria to study violin. Harmony has t…
Of Human Bondage
Read by Tom Weiss
W. Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage, published in 1915, is considered to be W. Somerset Maugham’s best work. Many believe the novel to be one of the world’s li…
Pride and Prejudice (version 5)
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Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, first published on 28 January 1813, is the most famous of Jane Austen's novels. It is one of the first romantic comedie…
The Lady With the Dog and Other Stories
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Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. …
1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors (Version 2)
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
Please note: this recording contains strong language. Also known simply as "1601", this is a humorously risque work by Mark Twain,…
Bible (KJV) 21: Ecclesiastes
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King James Version
The book of Ecclesiastes is a wonderful book. It tells how all man's doing is futile, if it is done in his own strength. The last two verses…
Shirley
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Charlotte Brontë
Shirley is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë. It was Brontë's second published novel after Jane Eyre (…
Fathers and Sons
Read by Roger Melin
Ivan Turgenev
The fathers and children of the novel refers to the growing divide between the two generations of Russians, and the character Yevgeny Bazaro…