General Fiction - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 6
Gone to Earth - Mary Webb
Gone to Earth - Mary Webb
- Author: Mary Webb
- Genre: General Fiction
"Gone to Earth" is the cry of fox hunters as the fox takes to its den and they lose the chase. Here, Mary Webb tells the story of Hazel Woodus whose understanding of her half tame fox cub contrasts with her misunderstanding of humanity. She is...
The Awakening (version 2) - Kate Chopin
The Awakening (version 2) - Kate Chopin
- Author: Kate Chopin
- Genre: General Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Kate Chopin's 1899 novella The Awakening is about the personal, sexual, and artistic awakening of a young wife and mother, Edna Pontellier. While on vacation at Grand Isle, an island in the Gulf of Mexico, Edna befriends the talented pianist Mlle....
Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half - Jacob A. Riis
Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half - Jacob A. Riis
- Author: Jacob A. Riis
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories / *Non-fiction
These stories have come to me from many sources—some from my own experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records of organized charity, that are never dry, as some think, but alive with vital human interest and with the...
Victory: An Island Tale - Joseph Conrad
Victory: An Island Tale - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: General Fiction
Recollections of the life of Axel Heyst, one-time manager of the liquidated Tropical Belt Coal Company in a fictitious island in the Pacific. After retreating from society in response to his professional failures, the misanthrope is drawn back by a...
The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy - Frances Milton Trollope
The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy - Frances Milton Trollope
- Author: Frances Milton Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction
The industrial revolution led to the rise of manufacture and, thus, the cotton mill factories. This important novel tells about the plight of Michael Armstrong, one of the boys who is forced to work there. The aim of the novel was to expose the...
The Little Colonel's House Party - Annie Fellows Johnston
The Little Colonel's House Party - Annie Fellows Johnston
- Author: Annie Fellows Johnston
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Family
Lloyd Sherman, the "Little Colonel", is a girl of eleven whose mother invites three other girls to spend a month with Lloyd in her beautiful home in Kentucky. The children come from very different homes, but fall into the new ways very readily. The...
The Box with the Broken Seals - E. Phillips Oppenheim
The Box with the Broken Seals - E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / General Fiction
A convoluted tale of espionage. This entertaining story is set in World War I. It has interesting characters. and I found my sympathies equally divided between the spy and his relentless pursuer. In my opinion, one of Oppenheim’s best. (Summary by...
The Scrap Book (volume 1) Sampler - Various
The Scrap Book (volume 1) Sampler - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / History
18 works -- two non-fic articles & one short fiction or poetry each -- from issues March, April, May, June, July, & August 1906 of The Scrap Book, Volume 1, edited by Frank Munsey. As he states in the editorial of the April 1906 issue (Vol...
Mrs. Craddock - W. Somerset Maugham
Mrs. Craddock - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: General Fiction / Published 1900 onward
“I thought it was you I saw coming up the hill,” she said, stretching out her hand. He stopped and shook it; the touch of his big, firm fingers made her tremble. His hand was massive and hard as if it were hewn of stone. She looked up at him and...
The Boarded Up House - Augusta Huiell Seaman
The Boarded Up House - Augusta Huiell Seaman
- Author: Augusta Huiell Seaman
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
What is the secret of the old boarded up house? And what is the answer to the mystery of the long lost letter that is found in it? Best friends Joyce and Cynthia - along with their dog "Goliath", are determined to find out in this pre-Nancy Drew...
The Lesson of the Master - Henry James
The Lesson of the Master - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: General Fiction
A promising young writer meets an older man whose works have inspired him, as well as a highly intelligent and attractive young woman, at a gathering in a country house. Anxious to learn all he can from the older writer, the young man seeks his...
Night and Day - Virginia Woolf
Night and Day - Virginia Woolf
- Author: Virginia Woolf
- Genre: General Fiction
Night and Day (1919) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives of two friends, Katharine Hilbery and Mary Datchet. The novel examines the relationships between love, marriage, happiness, and...
Doctor Thorne - Anthony Trollope
Doctor Thorne - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction
Doctor Thorne is the third of Trollope's Barsetshire novels, and unlike some of the others, has little to do with the politics and personalities of the Church of England, or politics on the national level (though there is lots of politicking in the...
Paul and Virginia - Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
Paul and Virginia - Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
- Author: Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
- Genre: General Fiction
Paul and Virginia was first published in 1787. The novel's title characters are very good friends since birth who fall in love, but sadly die when the ship Le Saint-Geran is wrecked. The story is set in the island of Mauritius under French rule,...
R. Holmes and Co. - John Kendrick Bangs
R. Holmes and Co. - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Raffles Holmes is introduced in these stories as the son of the great Sherlock Holmes. He is also revealed to be the grandson of A.J. Raffles, a gentleman thief pursued by Sherlock Holmes many years earlier. This apparently contradictory family...
The Siege of Corinth - George Gordon, Lord Byron
The Siege of Corinth - George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Author: George Gordon Lord Byron
- Genre: General Fiction / Poetry
In this moving poem, Byron recounts the final, desperate resistance of the Venetians on the day the Ottoman army stormed Acrocorinth: revealing the closing scenes of the conflict through the eyes of Lanciotto - a Venetian renegade fighting for the...
Indiscretions of Archie - P. G. Wodehouse
Indiscretions of Archie - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
It wasn't Archie's fault really. It's true he went to America and fell in love with Lucille, the daughter of a millionaire hotel proprietor and if he did marry her--well, what else was there to do? From his point of view, the whole thing was a...
The Old Peabody Pew - Kate Douglas Wiggin
The Old Peabody Pew - Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance / *Non-fiction
A sweet, old fashioned Christmas romance set in an old New England meeting house. (Summary by Maria Therese)...
The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great - Henry Fielding
The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great - Henry Fielding
- Author: Henry Fielding
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Satire
This novel is sometimes thought of as [Fielding's] first because he almost certainly began composing it before he wrote Shamela and Joseph Andrews. It is a satire of Walpole that draws a parallel between Walpole and Jonathan Wild, the infamous gang...
The Return of the Native (version 2 dramatic reading) - Thomas Hardy
The Return of the Native (version 2 dramatic reading) - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / General Fiction
Clym Yeobright returns home to Egdon Heath, a scattered collection of houses on the isolated Wessex moors, and is caught up in a "love pentagon" which includes: his cousin, Thomasin Yeobright; the shadowy inn-keeper, Damon Wildeve; the controversial...
The Portrait of a Lady Vol 1 - Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady Vol 1 - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: General Fiction
The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-1881 and then as a book in 1881. It is the story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer, who "affronts...
The Beast in the Jungle - Henry James
The Beast in the Jungle - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: General Fiction
'The Beast in the Jungle' is a 1903 novella by Henry James, first published as part of the collection, The Better Sort. Almost universally considered one of James' finest short narratives, this story treats appropriately universal themes:...
Jill the Reckless - P. G. Wodehouse
Jill the Reckless - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: General Fiction
Jill had money, Jill was engaged to be married to Sir Derek Underhill. Suddenly Jill becomes penniless, and she is no longer engaged. With a smile, in which there is just a tinge of recklessness, she refuses to be beaten and turns to face the world....
The Portrait of a Lady Vol 2 - Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady Vol 2 - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: General Fiction
The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-1881 and then as a book in 1881. It is the story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer, who "affronts...
The Country of the Pointed Firs - Sarah Orne Jewett
The Country of the Pointed Firs - Sarah Orne Jewett
- Author: Sarah Orne Jewett
- Genre: General Fiction
The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) is considered Jewett’s finest work, described by Henry James as her “beautiful little quantum of achievement.” Despite James’s diminutives, the novel remains a classic. Because it is loosely structured, many...
The Beautiful Lady - Booth Tarkington
The Beautiful Lady - Booth Tarkington
- Author: Booth Tarkington
- Genre: General Fiction
Raffaele Ansolini is down on his luck: living in Paris is not quite so amazing if there are no funds to finance the amusement. So Ansolini has taken radical steps to support himself. Shaving off his hair, he uses his bald head as advertising space...
The Moneychangers - Upton Sinclair
The Moneychangers - Upton Sinclair
- Author: Upton Sinclair
- Genre: General Fiction
A story of white collar crime and intrigue told from the point of view of Montague, a member of the privileged class of New York. Montague witnesses the manipulation and upset of the stock market by high financier Dan Waterman who is motivated by...
Modeste Mignon - Honoré de Balzac
Modeste Mignon - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Modeste Mignon, a young provincial woman of romantic temperament, imagines herself to be in love with the famous Parisian poet Melchior de Canalis. However, he is not moved by her attentions. He invites his secretary Ernest de la Brière to "deal...
The Jolly Parisiennes and Other Novelettes - Émile Zola
The Jolly Parisiennes and Other Novelettes - Émile Zola
- Author: Émile Zola
- Genre: General Fiction
“The Jolly Parisiennes” by Émile Zola is a very clever, brilliant and interesting romance of a “grande passion” with an undercurrent of political intrigue. The plot is ingenious both in conception and execution, while the tone of the novel is...
Desperate Remedies - Thomas Hardy
Desperate Remedies - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: General Fiction
Cytherea Graye is poor, but accepts a post as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, the woman whom her father had loved but had not been able to marry. Cytherea in turn loves a young architect, Edward Springrove; but will Miss Adclyffe's...
The Passionate Friends - H. G. Wells
The Passionate Friends - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
H. G. Wells is best known for his science fiction, but some of his greatest works were in other genres. The Passionate Friends is a love story. It also is a story about dreams, despair, jealousy, sex, the struggle against social convention, the...
Diana - Susan Warner
Diana - Susan Warner
- Author: Susan Warner
- Genre: General Fiction
Diana Starling is the beautiful and quiet daughter of a cold and mentally abusive mother. She falls in love with Evan Nolton, but her mother wishes her to marry someone else. Yet, despite her mother's strong objections, she chooses her own husband....
The Lone Wolf - Louis Joseph Vance
The Lone Wolf - Louis Joseph Vance
- Author: Louis Joseph Vance
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction / Romance
The Lone Wolf is the first of eight books in a series featuring the jewel thief turned private detective Michael Lanyard. With his identity betrayed and the police on his heels, he must fly from Paris, which is made much more difficult by his...
His Family - Ernest Poole
His Family - Ernest Poole
- Author: Ernest Poole
- Genre: General Fiction
The 1910s is historically considered the decade of greatest social change in history. It saw the advent and proliferation of the automobile, electricity, lighting, radio, telephone and cinema. Our present time of change is actually quite tame in...
Ashton-Kirk, Investigator - John Thomas McIntyre
Ashton-Kirk, Investigator - John Thomas McIntyre
- Author: John Thomas McIntyre
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Ashton-Kirk, who has solved so many mysteries, is himself something of a problem even to those who know him best. Although young, wealthy, and of high social position, he is nevertheless an indefatigable worker in his chosen field. He smiles when...
Botchan - Sōseki Natsume
Botchan - Sōseki Natsume
- Author: Sōseki Natsume
- Genre: General Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Botchan is the story of a young math teacher from Tokyo whose first assignment takes him to a middle school in the country side. His arrival there is not very lucky: The pupils are bound to test his perseverance and cheerily comment every one of his...
The Tribulations of a Chinaman in China - Jules Verne
The Tribulations of a Chinaman in China - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: General Fiction
The rich and phlegmatic Kin-Fo loses his fortune and decides to die, but not before experiencing some strong emotions. He asks his friend Wang to kill him before a given date. Everything changes when Kin-Fo discovers he is not poor after all and he...
What Maisie Knew - Henry James
What Maisie Knew - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction
When Beale and Ida Farange are divorced, the court decrees that their only child, the very young Maisie, will shuttle back and forth between them, spending six months of the year with each. The parents are immoral and frivolous, and they use Maisie...
Olalla - Robert Louis Stevenson
Olalla - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction
"Olalla" was a "shilling shocker" written for the Christmas season in 1885, just before the publication of Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The nameless protagonist of this Gothic tale, a wounded soldier, goes to the Spanish countryside to...
The Picture of Dorian Gray (version 2 dramatic reading) - Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray (version 2 dramatic reading) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
The novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty and becomes infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Dorian meets...
