General Fiction - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 8
Freckles - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
Freckles - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Author: Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Nature
Freckles is a young man who has been raised since infancy in a Chicago orphanage. His one dream is to find a job, a place to belong and people who accept him despite his youth and the disability of having only one hand. He finds this place in the...
The Intrusion of Jimmy - P. G. Wodehouse
The Intrusion of Jimmy - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The action begins with playboy bachelor Jimmy Pitt in New York; having fallen in love on a transatlantic liner, he befriends a small-time burglar and breaks into a police captain's house as a result of a bet. The cast of characters head to England,...
The Metamorphosis (version 2) - Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis (version 2) - Franz Kafka
- Author: Franz Kafka
- Genre: General Fiction
"The Metamorphosis" is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915 and one of his best known works. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into a horrible verminous creature. Terrifying in...
The Death of the Lion - Henry James
The Death of the Lion - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: General Fiction
This short novel is a black comedy about fame, manipulation, pretension, and surviving it all. The narrator, a reprehensible and seedy journalist, sets out to interview a minor author, and in his own quest for glory, turns the author into the...
The Job - Sinclair Lewis
The Job - Sinclair Lewis
- Author: Sinclair Lewis
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / General Fiction
'The Job' is an early work by American novelist Sinclair Lewis. It is considered an early declaration of the rights of working women. The focus is on the main character, Una Golden, who desires to establish herself in a legitimate occupation while...
Varney, the Vampyre Vol. 3 - Thomas Peckett PREST
Varney, the Vampyre Vol. 3 - Thomas Peckett PREST
- Author: Thomas Peckett PREST
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Detective Fiction
This is volume 3 of 3. -- Originally published as a penny dreadful from 1845 until 1847, when it first appeared in book form, Varney the Vampyre is a forerunner to vampire stories such as Dracula, which it heavily influenced. Flora Bannersworth is...
Pelle the Conqueror, Volume 1 - Martin Andersen NEXØ
Pelle the Conqueror, Volume 1 - Martin Andersen NEXØ
- Author: Martin Andersen NEXØ
- Genre: General Fiction
When the first part of "Pelle Erobreren" (Pelle the Conqueror) appeared in 1906, its author, Martin Andersen Nexo, was practically unknown even in his native country, save to a few literary people who knew that he had written some volumes of stories...
Anne of the Island (version 4) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne of the Island (version 4) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
The third book in the Anne of Green Gables series accompanies beloved redhead Anne Shirley to Redmond College. Here Anne receives numerous proposals, befriends a mangled but determined pussy cat, and sets up housekeeping with her chums in the...
The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw - Frances Milton Trollope
The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw - Frances Milton Trollope
- Author: Frances Milton Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction
The novel begins with the arrival of a family staking a claim in the black delta of the Deep South. Whitlaw is a brutish sort who bullies his cowering wife into working herself to death. Shortly after giving birth to a strapping man-child, the wife,...
The House with the Green Shutters - George Douglas BROWN
The House with the Green Shutters - George Douglas BROWN
- Author: George Douglas BROWN
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Satire
The House with the Green Shutters is a novel by the Scottish writer George Douglas Brown, first published in 1901 by John MacQueen. Set in mid-19th century Ayrshire, in the fictitious town of Barbie which is based on his native Ochiltree, it...
The Treasure Chest of My Bookhouse - Various
The Treasure Chest of My Bookhouse - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General Fiction
Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the fourth volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for little ones. Originally published in the 1920's as a six volume set, these books, edited by Olive Beaupre Miller,...
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (version 2) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (version 2) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction / Short Stories
Sherlock Holmes, a fictional character of the late 19th and early 20th century created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is a brilliant London-based "consulting detective" famous for his intellectual prowess and renowned for...
The Gambler - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Gambler - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: General Fiction
The Gambler is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian general. The novella reflects Dostoevsky's own addiction to roulette, which was in more ways than one the inspiration for the book:...
Fifty-One Tales - Lord Dunsany
Fifty-One Tales - Lord Dunsany
- Author: Lord Dunsany
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
Very brief, well-crafted stories, many having surprise endings, all steeped in the dye of myth and calling to every reader's neglected imagination. (Summary by Thomas Copeland)...
Northanger Abbey (version 2) - Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey (version 2) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
Northanger Abbey follows Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen as they visit Bath, England. Seventeen year-old Catherine spends her time visiting newly-made friends, such as Isabella Thorpe, and going to balls. Catherine finds...
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / Romance
Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fame in her lifetime, putting Prince Edward Island and Canada on the world literary map. Best known for her...
The Green Rust (Version 2) - Edgar Wallace
The Green Rust (Version 2) - Edgar Wallace
- Author: Edgar Wallace
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Edgar Wallace, perhaps best known for creating King Kong, wrote dozens of novels. The Green Rust, his twelfth crime novel, is one of three books he published in 1919. It begins at the English home of the severely ill American millionaire, John...
Madame Butterfly - John Luther LONG
Madame Butterfly - John Luther LONG
- Author: John Luther LONG
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Madame Butterfly is the story of the young Japanese girl Cho-Cho San, who marries a flighty American naval officer, and is thenceforth outcast from her relatives. Anxiously she awaits the return of her beloved husband, but when he finally anchors in...
What's Mine's Mine - George MacDonald
What's Mine's Mine - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: General Fiction
Set in the invigorating wilds of Scotland, clans are crumbling and emigrating as their homeland is bought out from under them. The characters quickly become your friends as you identify with and learn from their struggles and joys. Contrasts abound...
Mothering on Perilous - Lucy S. FURMAN
Mothering on Perilous - Lucy S. FURMAN
- Author: Lucy S. FURMAN
- Genre: General Fiction
Cecelia Loring is alone in the world after the death of her mother and has come to the Kentucky mountains in search of work. Although very depressed from her loss she soon becomes caretaker of the garden at a school and not many days later finds...
The Great Shadow - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Great Shadow - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
Set in an English-Scottish border village during the waning days of the Napoleonic era, this adventure story introduces us to Jock Calder, whose quiet way of life is shattered when a mysterious stranger steps ashore near his home. The stranger...
The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen - Rudolf Erich RASPE
The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen - Rudolf Erich RASPE
- Author: Rudolf Erich RASPE
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
The stories about Münchhausen were first collected and published by an anonymous author in 1781. An English version was published in London in 1785, by Rudolf Erich Raspe, as Baron Munchhausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in...
Once on a Time - A. A. MILNE
Once on a Time - A. A. MILNE
- Author: A. A. MILNE
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General Fiction
When the King of Barodia receives a pair of seven-league boots as a birthday present, his habit of flying over the King of Euralia's castle during breakfast provokes a series of incidents which escalate into war. While the King of Euralia is away,...
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
- Author: Upton Sinclair
- Genre: General Fiction
It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better life. As they settle into the Packingtown neighborhood of Chicago, they find their dreams are unlikely to be...
Clouds Cover the Campus - Daniel A. LORD
Clouds Cover the Campus - Daniel A. LORD
- Author: Daniel A. LORD
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction / War & Military Fiction
On an American college campus, in the early years of World War II, a professor from Germany is murdered and the plans for a new bomb sight he had invented are missing. Who murdered the professor and stole the plans? And are the accidents happening...
The Harbor - Ernest Poole
The Harbor - Ernest Poole
- Author: Ernest Poole
- Genre: General Fiction
The Harbor was written in 1915 by Ernest Poole. The novel is considered by many to be one of Poole’s best efforts even though his book, The Family won a Pulitzer Prize. The Harbor is a fictional account of life on a Brooklyn waterfront through the...
Bacon - Richard William CHURCH
Bacon - Richard William CHURCH
- Author: Richard William CHURCH
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
This investigation of Bacon the scholar and man of letters begins with a look at the early days ang progresses to his relationships with Queen Elizabeth and James I. It includes accounts of his positions as solicitor general, attorney-general, and...
Other Things Being Equal - Emma WOLF
Other Things Being Equal - Emma WOLF
- Author: Emma WOLF
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Ruth Levice, the daughter of a rich San Francisco Jewish merchant, meats Dr. Herbert Kemp, and they slowly fall in love. However, she is Jewish and he is not. Can love overcome such an obstacle? And what is more important, duty or love? (Summary by...
Mercenary - Dallas McCord REYNOLDS
Mercenary - Dallas McCord REYNOLDS
- Author: Dallas McCord REYNOLDS
- Genre: General Fiction / Science Fiction
Every status-quo-caste society in history has left open two roads to rise above your caste: The Priest and The Warrior. But in a society of TV and tranquilizers--the Warrior acquires a strange new meaning... (Introduction from the Gutenberg text)...
North and South - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
North and South - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Set in Victorian England, North and South is the story of Margaret Hale, a young woman whose life is turned upside down when her family relocates to northern England. As an outsider from the agricultural south, Margaret is initially shocked by the...
Off on a Comet - Jules Verne
Off on a Comet - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
The story starts with a comet that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. Some forty people of various nations and ages are condemned to a two-year-long journey on the comet. They form a mini-society and cope with the...
Members of the Family - Owen Wister
Members of the Family - Owen Wister
- Author: Owen Wister
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Short Stories
Members of the Family is a collection of eight short stories about people in the Wyoming Territory in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (Summary by David Wales)...
The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors - Various
The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction
A 1908 NaNoWriMo forerunner, told in twelve chapters, each with a different author. The basic plot was to show how an engagement or marriage would affect and be affected by an entire family. The project became somewhat curious for the way the...
Emily Fox-Seton - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Emily Fox-Seton - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: General Fiction
Have you ever wondered what happened to Cinderella after she married the prince? Have you ever asked yourself if it was really "happy ever after?" Actually, in this Victorian melodrama, it's not. 35-years-old Emily Fox-Seton, quite penniless and a...
The Burning Secret - Stefan ZWEIG
The Burning Secret - Stefan ZWEIG
- Author: Stefan ZWEIG
- Genre: General Fiction
A lonely, convalescing 12 year-old boy and his attractive mother, who is in a loveless marriage, meet a gentleman while vacationing at a European resort. Seeking an enjoyable way to pass the time, the man schemes to seduce the woman with the...
Sister Simon's Murder Case - Margaret Ann HUBBARD
Sister Simon's Murder Case - Margaret Ann HUBBARD
- Author: Margaret Ann HUBBARD
- Genre: General Fiction
Set in the picturesque wilds of a Midwestern resort town at the height of the tourist season, Sister Simon’s Murder case begins with the murder of a terrified elderly lady, Dannie Grear. But what was she so afraid of? And who is the killer who keeps...
Geography and Plays - Gertrude Stein
Geography and Plays - Gertrude Stein
- Author: Gertrude Stein
- Genre: General Fiction / Plays / Poetry
Geography and Plays is a 1922 collection of Gertrude Stein's "word portraits," or stream-of-consciousness writings. These stream-of-consciousness experiments, rhythmical essays or "portraits", were designed to evoke "the excitingness of pure being"...
The Last Chronicle of Barset - Anthony Trollope
The Last Chronicle of Barset - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction
Both Trollope and some of his later critics have considered The Last Chronicle to be his greatest novel. Many of its characters are familiar from the earlier Barsetshire novels, including the Rev. Josiah Crawley, the impoverished curate of...
The American Senator - Anthony Trollope
The American Senator - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction
The American Senator is a novel written in 1875 by Anthony Trollope. Although not one of Trollope's better-known works, it is notable for its depictions of rural English life and for its many detailed fox hunting scenes. In its anti-heroine,...
Henrietta Temple - Benjamin DISRAELI
Henrietta Temple - Benjamin DISRAELI
- Author: Benjamin DISRAELI
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
The Armine family, in particular the young Ferdinand Armine, is in great financial difficulties. Ferdinand's grandfather has burdened the family estate with large debts, which his father did not manage to diminish. Ferdinand himself is not disposed...
