Literary Fiction

Tales of Hearsay

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


In the time of Napoleon, a thoughtful and romantic young Russian officer finds himself asked to do something unthinkable. In 1868, a Polish …

The Huguenot: A Tale of the French Protestants

Read by Lynne T


George Payne Rainsford James


The time of French king Louis XIV was a time of religious conflict. His father, Louis XIII had tried to suppress the teachings and followers…

An Outcast of the Islands (Version 2)

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


This, Conrad's second, novel serves as an illuminating prequel of his first, 'Almayer's Folly', teasing out the origins of the factional ten…

Doña Berta

Read by Lu


Leopoldo Garcia Alas


Una anciana solterona, última descendiente de los Rondaliego, cuya existencia transcurre íntegramente en un rincón de A…

Typhoon and Other Stories

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


An impossibly imperturbable old sea captain, with two hundred Chinese labourers aboard his steamship, faces a terrifying typhoon for the fir…

שכול וכשלון Breakdown and Bereavement

Read by Omri Lernau


יוסף חיים ברנר Yosef Haim Brenner


Breakdown and Bereavement, first published in 1920, is the story of a young Jewish immigrant in Palestine in the early 20th century. Like ma…

Bliss, and Other Stories

Read by Peter Dann


Katherine Mansfield


"(N)ot to say that they are cheerful stories; they are anything but that; they have not, however, that element of trivial discomfort so…

The Black Candle

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson


Emily Murphy


Emily Murphy wrote about the Vancouver, BC Downtown Eastside and its various residents. This is one of her quotes from the book - "It …

A Man Could Stand Up

Read by Peter Dann


Ford Madox Ford


'A Man Could Stand Up' is the third, and culminating, part of Ford Madox Ford's 'Parade's End' tetralogy of novels, which begins with 'Some …

The House on the Marsh: A Romance

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Florence Warden


Violet Christie is just 18 years old as she heads towards her first position as a governess. She tries to be enthusiastic about the Norfolk …

Groote Verwachtingen

Read by Marcel Coenders


Charles Dickens


De arme wees Pip komt in goede doen, wordt een vreselijke snob, maar na financiële tegenslagen komt hij toch weer op het rechte pad. Sa…

El rey de las montañas

Read by Lu


Edmond About


Con aire satírico e incluso irónico, el autor francés relata en esta novela los lances y aventuras por las que pasa un …

Lore of Proserpine

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Maurice Henry Hewlett


If a thing is not sensibly true it may be morally so. If it is not phenomenally true it may be so substantially. And it is possible that one…

A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas (version 12)

Read by Geoffrey Venin


Charles Dickens


Marley was dead, to begin with...until his ghost visits his miserly business partner, Ebenezer Scrooge, with a dire warning. Will Scrooge b…

Within The Tides

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


A self-important English philosopher and his haughty, beautiful daughter sail to the South Pacific in hope of locating the daughter's wrongl…

The Magic Mountain (Volume Two)

Read by Steve Gough


Thomas Mann


Thomas Mann’s epic novel depicts a decaying, corrupted European society on the eve of the First World War. Set in a luxurious sanatorium hig…

Harmer John; An Unworldly Story

Read by David Wales


Hugh Walpole


Hjalmar Johanson (novel, 1926) is a boyish unworldly Swedish body builder come to Walpole’s fictional cathedral town of Polchester. His name…

The Ball at Sceaux

Read by Bruce Pirie


Honoré de Balzac


The novella “The Ball at Sceaux” is part of Balzac’s great life work — the expansive fiction series titled “The Human Comedy.” The central c…

Thyrza

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George Gissing


Thyrza is a working class woman. Three men are in love with her. Even though she is engaged to a man of her class, who is very kind, she fal…

Traumnovelle

Read by Hokuspokus


Arthur Schnitzler


Der Arzt Fridolin und seine Frau Albertine führen eine anscheinend glückliche Ehe, doch unter der Oberfläche gären unaus…

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