Drama

Chance

by Joseph Conrad Read by James E. Carson 4.5
Apparently a two part story about a Damsel and a Knight, perhaps a damsel who depends upon the kindness of strangers. It was originally enti…

King Lear

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
King Lear is widely held as the greatest of Shakespeare's tragedies; to some, it is the greatest play ever written. King Lear abdicates the …

At the Foot of the Rainbow

by Gene Stratton-Porter Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
This story is about three people, two men and a woman. Jimmy, selfish and deceitful, who has shamelessly lied to, cheated, and used his dear…

Hunger

by Knut Hamsun Read by Greg W. 4.3
Hunger (Norwegian: Sult) is a novel by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun and was published in its final form in 1890. The novel has been hail…

Anna of the Five Towns

by Arnold Bennett Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
The plot centers on Anna Tellwright, daughter of a wealthy but miserly and dictatorial father, living in the Potteries area of Staffordshire…

Hans of Iceland

by Victor Hugo Read by Sonia 4.7
Hans of Iceland was written in 1821 and is the very first novel written by young Victor, years before he became the great Hugo. It has all t…

As You Like It

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Shakespeare's pastoral comedy was written and first performed around 1599, and presents some of his familiar motifs: a cross-dressing heroin…

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Shakespeare's festive comedy combines classical Athenian characters (Duke Theseus and his conquered Amazonian bride Hippolyta) with four con…

Henry VI

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Henry VI, Part 2 or The Second Part of Henry the Sixth (often written as 2 Henry VI) is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to ha…

The Oresteia

by Aeschylus Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
The Oresteia is a trilogy by Aeschylus, one of the foremost playwrights of ancient Greece. It encompasses three plays: Agamemnon, The Libati…

The Prussian Officer

by D. H. Lawrence Read by Cate Barratt 4.2
The collection of short stories - of which The Prussian Officer is one - was Lawrence’s first such book. A German officer and his orderly ar…

The Machine

by Upton Sinclair Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Upton Sinclair is best known for his novel The Jungle, an expose of the meatpacking industry. He was also a playwright whose works for the s…

The Clansman

by Thomas Dixon, Jr. Read by Michele Fry 4.4
The second book in a trilogy of the Reconstruction era - The Leopard's Spots (1902), The Clansman (1905), and The Traitor (1907), this novel…

The Bostonians

by Henry James Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
This bittersweet tragicomedy centers on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chance…

The Jew of Malta

by Christopher Marlowe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Christopher “Kit” Marlowe (baptised 26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593) was an English dramatist, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. T…

The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby

by Charles Dickens Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
The action takes place in London, with excursions to Devon, Yorkshire, and Portsmouth, as we follow the adventures of the eponymous hero. Ni…

Ben Hur

by Lew Wallace Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
In this dramatic reading of the classic epic Ben Hur, rediscover the wonder of three wise men who travel through the wilderness together. Th…

The Spanish Tragedy

by Thomas Kyd Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
The Spanish Tragedy, or Hieronimo is Mad Again is an Elizabethan tragedy written by Thomas Kyd between 1582 and 1592. Highly popular and inf…

Farewell

by Honoré de Balzac Read by Martin Geeson 4.4
In his startling and tragic novella Farewell (‘Adieu’), Balzac adds to the 19th century’s literature of the hysterical woman: sequestered, c…

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