Drama

Ayala's Angel

by Anthony Trollope Read by tabithat 4.6
Lucy and Ayala Dormer are left penniless by the death of their parents. Ayala is taken in by their rich aunt Lady Tringle and Lucy by their …

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…

Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
This is book 2 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 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…

Run to Earth

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Read by Gail Mattern 4.5
Run to Earth is a riveting Victorian sensation novel that weaves a tale of intrigue and passion. Set against the backdrop of a society rife …

Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
This is book 4 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 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 Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children's novel is about orphaned Mary Lennox, who is sent to live with her uncle at Misslethwaite Manor …

Ester Ried's Namesake

by Pansy Read by TriciaG 4.7
In Ester Ried's Namesake, Esther Ried Randall grapples with the weight of her name and the expectations that come with it. As she navigates …

Kilmeny of the Orchard

by Lucy Maud Montgomery Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
A short and sweet romance by the author of "Anne of Green Gables", Kilmeny of the Orchard is a story about a schoolteacher (Eric) …

The Honor of the Big Snows

by James Oliver Curwood Read by Roger Melin 4.5
What unseen force may have brought young Jan Thoreau and his music from out of the barren lands into the remote camp of Lac Bain, forever ch…

Orley Farm

by Anthony Trollope Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024) 4.5
Orley Farm is Trollope at his best (as good as the Barsetshire series), which means some of the best characterizations in the English langua…

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy Read by Adrian Praetzellis 4.7
One of the greatest English tragic novels, TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES (1891) is the story of a “pure woman” who is victimized both by convent…

Wives and Daughters

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
If you like Jane Austen, you will probably like this book!Mrs. Gaskell, as she was often referred to, is considered one of the greatest Brit…

Rainbow Valley

by Lucy Maud Montgomery Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Anne Shirley is grown up and married, and her six children are off having their own adventures with the Merediths - the four children of a w…

The Importance of Being Earnest

by Oscar Wilde Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest is subtitled "A Trivial Comedy for Serious People," and has proved immensely popular…

The Death of Ivan Ilyitch

by Leo Tolstoy Read by Laurie Anne Walden 4.7
The Death of Ivan Ilyitch is the story of a socially ambitious middle-aged judge who contracts an unexplained and untreatable illness. As I…

Poor Miss Finch

by Wilkie Collins Read by Sandra G 4.6
“Poor Miss Finch.” That is what everyone calls the courageous protagonist of this book. In other words, “poor thing, she’s blind, isn’t it a…

Bartleby, the Scrivener

by Herman Melville Read by Bob Neufeld 4.6
Bartleby, the Scrivener is a thought-provoking novella that explores the complexities of human behavior and the nature of work through the e…

Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures

by Douglas William Jerrold Read by Martin Clifton 4.8
Douglas William Jerrold (1803-1857) was the son of an actor manager. After some time in the Navy and as an apprentice printer he became a pl…

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