Literary Fiction - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 3
Around the World in Eighty Days (version 4) - Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days (version 4) - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Literary Fiction
Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet...
Anthem (Version 4) - Ayn RAND
Anthem (Version 4) - Ayn RAND
- Author: Ayn RAND
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Ayn Rand is best known for her classics Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. One of her earlier works, Anthem, is a dystopian vision of a world in which “self” has been abolished and people have become nothing more than parts of a greater...
The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter - Henri MURGER
The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter - Henri MURGER
- Author: Henri MURGER
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Literary Fiction
As much as any other work of literature, Henri Murger’s 1851 collection of witty sketches Scènes de la vie de bohème shaped the later romanticized image of the bohemian artist: independent, insouciant, exuberantly lustful, devoted to Art for Art’s...
Sister Carrie - Theodore DREISER
Sister Carrie - Theodore DREISER
- Author: Theodore DREISER
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945) was an American author of the naturalist school, known for dealing with the gritty reality of life. Sister Carrie (1900) is his first novel and tells the story of a young country girl who moves to the big city (Chicago)...
Asphodel - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Asphodel - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Like the Asphodel, a plant which grows far away from England, Daphne grows far away from home. In her first chance of freedom, at the age of almost 17, she finds an opportunity to forget for a while... Forget that her father, the renowned Sir Vernon...
If All These Young Men - Florence Roma Muir WILSON
If All These Young Men - Florence Roma Muir WILSON
- Author: Florence Roma Muir WILSON
- Genre: Literary Fiction / War & Military Fiction
Another remarkable World War I novel by Romer Wilson, "If All These Young Men" is a character study of a group of young 20-something friends in England dealing with the looming, grey presence of the War in their lives. The story begins on Good...
The Way We Live Now - Anthony Trollope
The Way We Live Now - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Literary Fiction
The Way We Live Now is a scathing satirical novel published in London in 1875 by Anthony Trollope, after a popular serialization. It was regarded by many of Trollope's contemporaries as his finest work. One of his longest novels (it contains a...
Christmas Books - Charles Dickens
Christmas Books - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Literary Fiction
From 1843 to 1848, Charles Dickens wrote a series of five novellas to be published at Christmas. Most people are familiar with the first, "A Christmas Carol." The others are "The Chimes," "The Cricket on the Hearth," "The Battle of Life," and "The...
Mademoiselle Ixe - Mary Elizabeth Hawker
Mademoiselle Ixe - Mary Elizabeth Hawker
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Hawker
- Genre: Literary Fiction
This is a story by the English writer Mary Elizabeth Hawker (1848-1908) entitled Mademoiselle Ixe, by[pseudonym] Lanoe Falconer. The manuscript had been previously rejected by many publishers. The heroine is a governess in an English country house....
The Papers - Henry James
The Papers - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Today the world is awash with “celebrities” whose only accomplishment is being celebrated by the media in all its various forms. Henry James, of course, long pre-dates the multiplicity of media in today’s world, when the press was the main source of...
The Golden Bowl - Henry James
The Golden Bowl - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some critics have called the "major phase" of James' career. The Golden Bowl explores the tangle of...
An Ideal Husband (version 2) - Oscar Wilde
An Ideal Husband (version 2) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Literary Fiction
The "Ideal Husband" of the title is Sir Robert Chiltern, with his equally upright wife Lady Chiltern. He has never committed a crime, never had a "past" and never bowed to corruption or influence, or so she thinks... The disreputable Mrs Cheveley is...
Sons of the Covenant: A Tale of London Jewry - Samuel GORDON
Sons of the Covenant: A Tale of London Jewry - Samuel GORDON
- Author: Samuel GORDON
- Genre: Family Life / Literary Fiction / Religious Fiction
Born in London's poverty-stricken and heavily Jewish East End, the Lipcott boys create their own successes in life and love. The brothers' commitment to improving the lives of working class people leads them to concoct The Scheme to help both the...
Tasker Jevons: The Real Story - May Sinclair
Tasker Jevons: The Real Story - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Literary Fiction
In this May Sinclair wartime masterpiece, dashing newsman Walter Furnival is an absurdly good catch: handsome, successful, athletic, intelligent, an upstanding epitome of manhood and rectitude. Tasker Jevons is a puny, preposterous,...
The Forty-Five Guardsmen - Alexandre Dumas
The Forty-Five Guardsmen - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
The sequel to "Chicot the Jester" and final book of the "Valois Romances." This story begins six years after the famed "Duel of the Mignons" between the favorites of the courts of King Henry III and Henry the Duke of Guise (somewhat allied with the...
Just As I Am - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Just As I Am - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
The murder has finally been solved. After 20 years, Humphrey Vargas came with his dog, seemingly from no where, and informed the magistrate of the county that he murdered the popular Mr. Blake. He even told the magistrate the whole story. This book...
The Metamorphosis (version 4) - Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis (version 4) - Franz Kafka
- Author: Franz Kafka
- Genre: Literary Fiction
This story, about a man who wakes up transformed into a bug and the repercussions it has on his life and the people around him, has intrigued me for many years. The translation is by Ian Johnston, not the translator that is in Gutenberg; I like...
The Tree of Heaven - May Sinclair
The Tree of Heaven - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Literary Fiction / War & Military Fiction
One of the most heart-breaking of all World War I novels, this family epic was written in the midst of the War itself, and shows the intense emotion generated in ordinary lives by that tragedy. May Sinclair astonishingly weaves multiple themes into...
The House of the White Shadows - B. L. FARJEON
The House of the White Shadows - B. L. FARJEON
- Author: B. L. FARJEON
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction / Literary Fiction
Is a defense attorney bound to defend his client, or with his conscience, when he knows that the man he is defending is guilty of the charges against him after the trial has already commenced? And if friends hold a belief that he may have been aware...
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Original 1848 Edition) - Anne Brontë
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Original 1848 Edition) - Anne Brontë
- Author: Anne Brontë
- Genre: Literary Fiction
When Helen Graham moves into old Wildfell Hall with her little son Arthur, the rustic neighborhood comes alive with gossip and speculation, particularly when saturnine Mr. Lawrence (who bears an uncanny resemblance to the child) begins to visit her...
Cradock Nowell Vol. 3 - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Cradock Nowell Vol. 3 - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Author: Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Family Life / Literary Fiction
Cradock Nowell: a Tale of the New Forest is a three-volume novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1866. Set in the New Forest and in London, it follows the fortunes of Cradock Nowell who, at the end of Volume 1, is thrown out of his family home and...
Two Sides of a Question - May Sinclair
Two Sides of a Question - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Short Stories
Here are two gemlike novellas in one volume, written in May Sinclair’s clearest and cleverest prose and exploring the many ways in which a woman can be held captive, held back from the “intoxication of freedom.” In “The Cosmopolitan,” Frida Tancred...
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction / Literary Fiction
This classic tale tells of an orphan, Pip, who through a series of strange circumstances first finds a trade as a blacksmith's apprentice and then learns that he has "great expectations" of a future inheritance from an anonymous benefactor. He soon...
Maude - Christina ROSSETTI
Maude - Christina ROSSETTI
- Author: Christina ROSSETTI
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Poetry / Religious Fiction
Maude is a novella by Christina Rossetti, written in 1850 but published posthumously in 1897. Considered by scholars to be semi-autobiographical, the protagonist is 15-year-old Maude Foster, a quiet and serious girl who writes poetry that explores...
The Metamorphosis (version 3) - Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis (version 3) - Franz Kafka
- Author: Franz Kafka
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung, also sometimes translated as The Transformation) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in...
The Three Sisters - May Sinclair
The Three Sisters - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Fascinated as she was by the lives of the Brontë siblings, May Sinclair loosely based her subtly sensual, quietly insurrectionary 1914 novel The Three Sisters on the Haworth moor milieu of the three literary Brontë sisters. Alice, Gwenda, and Mary...
The House of Mirth (Version 3) - Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth (Version 3) - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: Literary Fiction
The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, a woman who is torn between her desire for luxurious living and a relationship based on mutual respect and love. She sabotages all her possible opportunities for a wealthy marriage, loses the esteem...
Elsie Venner - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Elsie Venner - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Bernard Langdon is close to earning his degree in medicine when his family finds itself in financial difficulties, forcing Langdon to interrupt his studies for a time in order to earn money with which to fund the rest of his degree. He therefore...
Three Years - Anton Chekhov
Three Years - Anton Chekhov
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Laptev, the rich but unattractive scion of a merchant, renounces his independent-minded, intelligent, devoted, but equally unattractive mistress Polina in order to marry the beautiful young gold-digger Yulia. Their life together quickly deteriorates...
Collaboration - Henry James
Collaboration - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Short Stories / Published 1800 -1900
It is Paris sometime after the Franco-Prussian War (1870--Germany won--the French Second Republic collapsed--France embittered). A French poet and a German composer come to admire one another's work and decide to collaborate on an opera. There are...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (version 2) - James JOYCE
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (version 2) - James JOYCE
- Author: James JOYCE
- Genre: Literary Fiction
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is Joyce’s semi-autobiographical first novel. It traces the early life of Stephen Dedalus and his inner struggle with the oppression of Irish society and the Catholic church, ending with his awakening as a...
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia - Sir Philip Sidney
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia - Sir Philip Sidney
- Author: Sir Philip Sidney
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
Arcadia is a prose work by Sir Philip Sidney, a classic of the Renaissance pastoral and a work of high romance, a fleeting vision of a lost world of gallantry and adventure, representing an escape from the realities of politics in the Elizabethan...
Marguerite de Valois - Alexandre Dumas
Marguerite de Valois - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
A historical fiction novel set in Paris (1572) during Charles IX's reign and the French Wars of Religion. Marguerite de Valois, daughter of deceased Henry II, is the novel's protagonist set against the infamous schemes of the Catholic power player,...
Swann's Way (Version 2) - Marcel PROUST
Swann's Way (Version 2) - Marcel PROUST
- Author: Marcel PROUST
- Genre: Literary Fiction
"Swann's Way" is the first of the seven parts of Marcel Proust's great autobiographical novel "In Search of Lost Time." From the very first page the reader is drawn into the many facets of memory, memory as prompted by all the human senses. "Swann's...
Lost Illusions: Two Poets - Honoré de Balzac
Lost Illusions: Two Poets - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Two Poets (1837) is the first book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively titled La Comédie Humaine. The story is set in post-Napoleonic France, when the new bourgeoisie was jostling for position...
The Death of Society: A Novel of Tomorrow - Florence Roma Muir WILSON
The Death of Society: A Novel of Tomorrow - Florence Roma Muir WILSON
- Author: Florence Roma Muir WILSON
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction / Romance
A weary survivor of the Great War, Major Rane Smith wanders in a great ennui amidst the mystical beauties of the fjords of Norway after the War, seeking a spiritual renewal. Deep in the forest he stumbles fatefully upon the strange, almost elvish...
The Colonel's Dream - Charles Waddell Chesnutt
The Colonel's Dream - Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- Author: Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
In this novel, Chesnutt described the hopelessness of Reconstruction in a post-Civil War South that was bent on reestablishing the former status quo and rebuilding itself as a region of the United States where new forms of "slavery" would replace...
The Portrait of a Lady (version 3) - Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady (version 3) - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Our central character is Isabel Archer of Albany, New York, a young woman of no great means, and no great beauty (that is, by her own estimation; others disagree) yet of rich imagination, high ideals and a thirst for knowledge of the world. Carried...
Liza of Lambeth - W. Somerset Maugham
Liza of Lambeth - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Liza of Lambeth focuses on the challenges of life facing Liza, an 18 year old factory girl who lives in the poverty of the slums of 1890s London. The main plot is driven by Liza's affections and the consequences these have for her. Based on W...
Our Mutual Friend, Version 2 - Charles Dickens
Our Mutual Friend, Version 2 - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Our Mutual Friend (written in the years 1864–65) is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining psychological insight with social analysis. It centres on, in the words of critic J. Hillis Miller,...
