Drama

Shakespeare Monologues Collection

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
LibriVox readers present the second collection of monologues from Shakespeare’s plays. Containing 15 parts. William Shakespeare (April 26, …

Why Marry?

by Jesse Lynch Williams Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Why Marry? is a comedy, which "tells the truth about marriage". We find a family in the throes of proving the morality of marriage…

The Duchess of Malfi

by John Webster Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
John Webster's bloody Jacobean tragedy exposes the decadence of the Italian court. The virtuous Duchess of Malfi, a young widow, secretly ma…

The Figure in the Carpet

by Henry James Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4
The story ostensibly concerns a young literary critics who greatly admires the writer Hugh Vereker. A meeting with Vereker, however, shows h…

Where Angels Fear to Tread

by E. M. Forster Read by Julie Pandya 4
On a journey to Tuscany with her young friend and traveling companion Caroline Abbott, widowed Lilia Herriton falls in love with both Italy …

The Wings of the Dove

by Henry James Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.2
"The Wings of the Dove," published in 1902, represents to my memory a very old--if I shouldn't perhaps rather say a very young--mo…

Sanctuary

by Edith Wharton Read by Jacquerie 4.3
Kate Orme, shocked by the discovery of her fiance's complicity in a tragedy, and by society's willingness to overlook such transgressions, n…

Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Oliver Twist is an 1838 novel by Charles Dickens. It was originally published as a serial.Like most of Dickens' work, the book is used to ca…

Antigone

by Sophocles Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
This is the final installment in Sophocles' Theban Plays, following Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus. Oedipus's daughter Antigone deliber…

Mary Stuart

by Friedrich Schiller Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Schiller's tragedy depicts the final days of Mary, Queen of Scots, who has been imprisoned by her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, because of her …

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

by Christopher Marlowe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is a play by Christopher Marlow…

The Awakening

by Kate Chopin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
Owing to its highly personal content focused on feminine sexuality, this LibriVox edition was recorded by eight female readers. The Modern L…

Timon of Athens

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
The Life of Timon of Athens is a play by William Shakespeare about the fortunes of an Athenian named Timon (and probably influenced by the p…

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Magic, fairies, young lovers chasing each other through a forest, a man with a donkey's head, and impish Puck wreaking havoc right and left.…

The Guilty River

by Wilkie Collins Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
After his father’s death Gerard Roylake returns from Germany to take up his inheritance at Trimley Deen. On one evening he meets his childho…

Satan's Diary

by Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev Read by Crln Yldz Ksr 4.1
"Satan's Diary", Andreyev's last work, was completed by the great Russian a few days before he died in Finland, in September, 1919…

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, the second and final novel by Anne Brontë, is concerned with the story of a woman who leaves her abusive, …

Love and Intrigue

by Friedrich Schiller Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Ferdinand is an army major and son of President von Walter, a high-ranking noble in a German duke's court, while Luise Miller is the daughte…

Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
This is book 1 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…

Faust II

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend; a highly successful scholar, but also dissatisfied with his life, and so makes a deal w…

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