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Crime and Punishment (version 2)

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky


"Crime and Punishment" is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published in the literary journal "T…

Don Quixote, Vol. 1 (Ormsby Translation)

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra


Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the mo…

The Possessed

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky


Although titled The Possessed in the initial English translation, Dostoyevsky scholars and later translations favour the titles The Devils o…

The House of the Dead

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky


The House of the Dead is a novel published in 1861 by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky, which portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian p…

Don Quixote, Vol. 2 (Ormsby Translation)

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra


Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the mo…

Concerning the Spiritual in Art

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Wassily Kandinsky


Published in 1911, Kandinsky's book compares the spiritual life of humanity to a pyramid -- the artist has a mission to lead others to the p…

The Maine Woods

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Henry David Thoreau


On August 31, 1846, twenty-nine-year-old Henry David Thoreau left his cabin on Walden Pond to undertake a railroad and steamboat journey to …

Weird Tales

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E. T. A. Hoffmann


This recording includes both volumes of E. T. A. Hoffmann's Weird Tales, a collection of gothic novellas set in Germany, Italy, and some of …

The Prose Edda (Brodeur Translation)

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Snorri Sturleson


Also known as the Younger Edda or Snorri's Edda, the Prose Edda is a three-part work composed or at least compiled by thirteenth-century Ice…

The Elder Edda (Bray Translation)

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Sæmund Sigfusson


The Elder or Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems dating from the thirteenth century CE. Though no two translators or editors seem…

The Power-House

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John Buchan


The Power-House is a novel by John Buchan, a thriller set in London, England. It was written in 1913, when it was serialised in Blackwood's …

My Confession

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Leo Tolstoy


"My Confession" is a brief autobiographical story of Leo Tolstoy's struggle with a mid-life existential crisis of melancholia. It …

The World As Will and Idea, Vol. 1 of 3

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Arthur Schopenhauer


In this work, Schopenhauer explains his fundamental idea that at the root of the reality we see around us is a Will that eternally, insatiab…

Anarchism and Other Essays (Version 2)

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Emma Goldman


Emma Goldman, the most famous anarchist in American history, shows the whole range of her iconoclastic thought in this collection of essays.…

Under Western Eyes

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Joseph Conrad


Under Western Eyes (1911) is a novel by Joseph Conrad. The novel takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Geneva, Switzerland, and is vie…

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Original 1848 Edition)

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Anne Brontë


When Helen Graham moves into old Wildfell Hall with her little son Arthur, the rustic neighborhood comes alive with gossip and speculation, …

Ward No. 6

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Anton Chekhov


The line between sanity and insanity is blurred in this classic novella by Anton Chekhov. The disillusioned idealist Dr. Rabin is in charge…

Swann's Way (Version 2)

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Marcel Proust


"Swann's Way" is the first of the seven parts of Marcel Proust's great autobiographical novel "In Search of Lost Time." …

Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes (Kirby translation)

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Elias Lönnrot


The Kalevala is a 19th-century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology. It…

A Dissertation Concerning the Nature of True Virtue

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Jonathan Edwards


Disproportionately remembered as a hellfire-and-brimstone Puritan preacher on the basis of the excessively-anthologized "Sinners in the…

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