Literary Fiction
The Day of the Beast
Read by Brian Keenan
Zane Grey
Daren Lane, a World War I veteran, returns from the battlefields of Europe to the American Midwest. In Middletown USA, he encounters a postw…
Mardi
Read by James K. White
Herman Melville
Mardi is Melville's first purely fictional work. In it he contemplates man's beliefs, and questions whether or not one faith has value over …
Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady
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Samuel Richardson
It tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family, It is generally regarded as Richardson'…
The Explorer
Read by OCTL7
W. Somerset Maugham
An early novel by W. Somerset Maugham about conflicting feelings of self-integrity, filial love, romantic love. Lucy Allerton and Alec MacKe…
The Journal of Julius Rodman
Read by Mike Pelton
Edgar Allan Poe
The Journal of Julius Rodman, Being an Account of the First Passage across the Rocky Mountains of North America Ever Achieved by Civilized M…
Nana
Read by Celine Major
Émile Zola
Excerpt from Introduction:"Nana" stands third in popularity among the Zola novels. It is a study of the prostitute type and it giv…
Audrey Craven
Read by Expatriate
May Sinclair
In May Sinclair’s remarkable first novel, Audrey Craven is a beautiful young woman who has by her idiosyncrasies acquired a thoroughly undes…
Nami-ko
Read by Availle
Kenjiro Tokutomi
Nami-ko, a young woman of a noble Japanese family, has recently married the naval officer Takeo, the only heir of a friend of her father's. …
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
Read by Nicole Lee
Sir Philip Sidney
Arcadia is a prose work by Sir Philip Sidney, a classic of the Renaissance pastoral and a work of high romance, a fleeting vision of a lost …
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Read by Alisson Veldhuis
Thomas Hardy
In a fit of drunkenness, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter to the highest bidder at a country fair. He lives with regret and…
The Trembling of a Leaf
Read by OCTL7
W. Somerset Maugham
A collection of short stories on the South Sea Islands, among which are the famous "Red," "Rain," and "The Fall of …
The Secret Agent
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
Taking as his inspiration the historical accidental death by explosion of an anarchist outside the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park, Lond…
Shirley
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Charlotte Brontë
This work, Charlotte Bronte's second, is set in the England of the early 1800's, which was beset with political and social changes, represen…
Mademoiselle Ixe
Read by David Wales
Mary Elizabeth Hawker
This is a story by the English writer Mary Elizabeth Hawker (1848-1908) entitled Mademoiselle Ixe, by[pseudonym] Lanoe Falconer. The manuscr…
The Town Traveller
Read by Arnold
George Gissing
The town traveller is himself a British salesman, living in a lower class part of London in the Victorian era. The story depicts his interac…
An Ideal Husband
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Oscar Wilde
The "Ideal Husband" of the title is Sir Robert Chiltern, with his equally upright wife Lady Chiltern. He has never committed a cri…
The Mermaid of Druid Lake
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Charles Weathers Bump
A collection of offbeat stories. Some are a bit out of the ordinary as suggested by the title story about a freshwater mermaid; some are not…
Coningsby, or The New Generation
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Benjamin Disraeli
Coningsby is the first of trilogy of political novels that Disraeli published in the 1840s, and gives an insight into his views of the polit…
The Coast of Bohemia
Read by Expatriate
William Dean Howells
William Dean Howells is at his iconoclastic best in this exploration of bourgeois values, particularly in the clash between respectable soci…
Prodigal Daughters
Read by Kate Follis
Joseph Hocking
A frank look at the revolt of the younger generation following World War I, the book follows the Trelawney family. The father looks eagerly …